Performer: Ida Aldrian

“Jealous lover kills local slut” might be the tabloid headline, but Bizet's Carmen is much more than that, especially in this visually stunning new production in Hamburg, directed by Herbert Fritsch.

Hamburg State Opera launches its new season with a visually overpowering but musically satisfying Così fan tutte.

Peter Konwistchny scores audience success with his new production of Boris Godunov, a theatrically inventive critical take on manipulation and the disfiguring effects of power.

Joshua Rifkin’s theory that Bach had no ‘choir’ in the modern sense may have gradually inched its way towards acceptance, but for all the heated discussion his research has generated, one-per-part Passions are rarer than one might suppose.

La segunda jornada del Ring Festival de la Opéra national de Paris presenta una Valquiria impactante y equilibrada y con un reparto vocal excelente.

Dans la lignée d'un Or du Rhin qui avait suscité critiques et incompréhensions, le deuxième volet de la Tétralogie déçoit grandement, malgré un excellent Stanislas de Barbeyrac dans le rôle de Siegmund.