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An historical affair: Khovanshchina at the Staatsoper Berlin
With Claus Guth directing and Simone Young on the podium, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's new production of Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina proves that the past isn't really past.
Superb singing enlivens static production: Nabucco revived at the Met
With Liudmyla Monastyrska and George Gagnidze leading the cast, the Met revives Elijah Moshinsky’s 2001 staging of Verdi’s biblical epic under the baton of Daniele Callegari.
In Naples, Tosca lives, loves and dies in the land of nowhere
Film director Edoardo De Angelis sets his Tosca in a devastated, dystopiian suburb which mirrors and emphasises the opera's social degradation and immoral elements.
Russell Thomas shines in gloomy David Alden's Otello
The combination of a strong, spirited cast and a first-rate orchestral performance led by Daniele Callegari rendered the opera a moving experience in spite of drab staging and latent, unexplored tensions.
Piety and violence in San Carlo's Cavalleria rusticana
Notwithstanding director Pippo Delbono's narcissistic excesses, his staging confirmed itself as effective and penetrating.
Russell Thomas convinces as Otello at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Deutsche Oper Berlin presents Verdi’s old-age masterpiece in Kriegenburg’s production, which still fails to convince. A much more satisfying cast seals a successful musical production.