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CologneDie Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Christoph Gedschold; Michael Hampe; Oper Köln; German Droghetti; Julien Behr; Martin Piskorski
CologneGürzenich-Orchester Köln and Kristian Bezuidenhout
Manoury, Ligeti, Beethoven
Gürzenich Orchestra; François-Xavier Roth; Kristian Bezuidenhout
CologneWritten on SkinNew production
Benjamin: Written on Skin
François-Xavier Roth; Benjamin Lazar; Oper Köln; Adeline Caron; Nicol Hungsberg; Jenny Daviet
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CologneGürzenich Orchestra
Dukas, Gabrieli, Mozart, Varèse, Martinů, Mahler
Gürzenich Orchestra; François-Xavier Roth
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Beethoven and beyond: the Gürzenich reinvents the concert programme
François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich Orchestra tear up the traditional concert programme to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth.
A very palpable hit: Hamlet in Cologne
Brett Dean's operatic reworking of Shakespeare's Hamlet receives its German premiere in a powerful new staging by the work's librettist Matthew Jocelyn.
An emotionally distant Peter Grimes at Oper Köln
Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is a nuanced, gripping tale that should pack an emotional punch. Despite fine moments, Oper Köln's production didn't serve the work.
An evening of high drama in Amsterdam
Spanning a compositional date range of approximately 50 years, Francois-Xavier Roth and his well-drilled Gurzenich delivered a highly enjoyable evening of music by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Beethoven.
A conceptually bold Manon at Oper Köln
This production fell just short of brilliance but showed how relevant and thought-provoking opera as an art form can be when tapping into today's headline debates.
An effectively unsettling The Emperor of Atlantis at Oper Köln
Though straightforward in concept, Oper Köln's production of the one-act opera written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp brought the opera's profound themes to the surface in an excellently sung performance.
