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GrafeneggBayreuther Festspielorchester & Pablo Heras-Casado

Grafenegg Kulturbetriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Wagner: Parsifal
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Pablo Heras-Casado; Miina-Liisa Värelä; Andreas Schager; Jordan Shanahan; Georg Zeppenfeld

RotterdamVerdi's Requiem

© Marek Piwnicki
Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Lahav Shani; Aleksandra Kurzak; Annalisa Stroppa; Dmytro Popov; Georg Zeppenfeld

MunichDer fliegende Holländer

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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)
Daniele Rustioni; Peter Konwitschny; Bavarian State Opera; Johannes Leiacker; Michael Bauer; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

ViennaStaatskapelle Dresden

Musikverein Wien
Beethoven
Staatskapelle Dresden; Daniele Gatti; Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien; Sara Blanch; Christa Mayer; Bernard Richter

MadridWagner - Tannhäuser

© Manuel Alcorlo
Wagner: Tannhäuser
Gustavo Gimeno; David Hermann; Teatro Real; Jo Schramm; Bettina Walter; Fabrice Kebour; Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

DresdenDie Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Katharina Müllner; Josef Ernst Köpplinger; Semperoper Dresden; Nicholas Carter; Giulio Cilona; Walter Vogelweider; Dagmar Morell
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Jetske Mijnssen’s Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

George Petean (Simon Boccanegra) and Georg Zeppenfeld (Jacopo Fiesco) © Dutch National Opera | Ben van Duin
Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.
*****
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Thalheimer’s directs a static new Berlin Tristan und Isolde

Elisabeth Teige (Isolde) © Bernd Uhlig
At the start of his farewell to Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles shines with his orchestra, supplying the passion and tension withheld in Michael Thalheimer’s production.
****1
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Otto Schenk's Tannhäuser returns to the Met

Andreas Schager (Tannhäuser( and Ekaterina Gubanova (Venus) © Evan Zimmerman | Met Opera
Andreas Schager is the main reason to catch the latest revival of Otto Schenk's ultra-traditional Tannhäuser.
***11
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Parsifal in Augmented Reality at the Bayreuth Festival

Elīna Garanča (Kundry) © Enrico Nawrath
Jay Scheib spices up the visual experience with digital content in his production of Parsifal. Sounds good. But is it?
***11
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From birth to death: Die Walküre gets some interesting plot twists

Tomasz Konieczny (Wotan), Georg Zeppenfeld (Hunding) and Christa Mayer (Fricka) © Bayreuth Festspiele | Enrico Nawrath
The plot thickens as "episode two" of Bayreuth's new Ring muddies the waters of Siegfried’s paternity and Wotan comes to regret his actions.
*****
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Moving singing, but missed opportunities in Dresden’s new Aida

Katharina Thalbach offers a traditional staging at the Semperoper, with fine vocal performances led by Krassimira Stoyanova, Francesco Meli and Oksana Volkova. 
***11
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AmsterdamSimon BoccanegraNew production

George Petean (Simon Boccanegra) and Georg Zeppenfeld (Jacopo Fiesco) © Dutch National Opera | Ben van Duin
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Fabio Luisi; Jetske Mijnssen; Dutch National Opera; Étienne Pluss; Hannah Clark; Valerio Tiberi; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

AmsterdamFidelio

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Beethoven: Fidelio
Jaap van Zweden; Daniel Frank; Oliver Zwarg; Simon Neal; Georg Zeppenfeld