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Wonders ev’ry where: Ádám Fischer enchants with Haydn's Creation
A sense of marvel and joy permeates this New Year's Day performance of Haydn's oratorio at Müpa, Budapest.
Progress thwarted: Stravinsky's Rake at the Elbphilharmonie
Despite some fine young voices, a concert staging of The Rake's Progress proves problematic in Hamburg.
Vaudeville and validation in Ravel double bill
In the nearby city of Winterthur, Zurich’s fine International Opera Studio (IOS) recently premiered two short operas by Maurice Ravel, a flashy L’Heure espagnole and a lyrical L’Enfant et les sortilèges.
Torments, caprice and folly in Zurich
Men unfaithful out of habit? Sheer madness to trust a woman? These were the great themes of what has proven to be Mozart’s most popular opera.
Capuleti e i Montecchi in Budapest
Singers delight in a rare concert performance of Bellini's opera.
17th-century L'Orontea in Budapest goes millennial
Opera director András Almási-Toth’s whimsical updating of an early Baroque opera by Antonio Cesti switches the composer’s L'Orontea from 1656 to 2016.