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Matthew Aucoin's Music for New Bodies at Lincoln Center
Aucoin, librettist Jorie Graham and director Peter Sellars make New Bodies more a haunting mood piece than a cautionary tale for the American Modern Opera Company.
Beauty and the beast: Sciarrino's Venere e Adone premieres in Hamburg
What does opera in the 21st century look and sound like? Streets removed from anything Mozart, Verdi or Wagner would have recognised. But Salvatore Sciarrino is his own man.
Wellber and the BBC Philharmonic mark Beethoven 250 in Manchester
Taking snapshots from 1806 and 1807, the BBC Philharmonic present two works from Beethoven’s middle period, with high musical standards and the Dresden Chamber Choir on superb form.
Kosky's Semele revived in style at the Komische Oper Berlin
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Semele willingly pays the price of death through transformation.
A cauldron of confusion: Handel’s Belshazzar staged in Zürich
Lawrence Cummings conducts Zurich’s Orchestra La Scintilla in Handel’s oratorio-cum-opera, Belshazzar. The music was celestial; the staging was a bombastic mix of excess and vaudeville.
Carsen's Dream conquers a new fan base in Philadelphia
The director's world-renowned 1991 conception of Benjamin Britten's 1960 operaA Midsummer Night's Dream finally makes it to America.