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Performer: Jenny Carlstedt

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Weinberg’s The Passenger at Dutch National Opera

The Passenger © Dutch National Opera | Monika Rittershaus

Tobias Kratzer's 2024 Munich production makes its way to Amsterdam, proving that Weinberg's opera has the power to transfix. 

****1
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Fagerlund’s interpretation of Morning Star dawns over Helsinki

Mari Palo (Turid) © Ilkka Saastamoinen
Finnish National Opera premieres an emotionally diffuse interpretation of the Karl Ove Knausgård’s novel The Morning Star, with Swedish libretto by Gunilla Hemming and direction by Thomas de Mallet Burgess. 
**111
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Urgency and splendour: Mahler 3 at the Proms

Sakari Oramo © BBC | Chris Christodoulou
Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an electrifying account at the BBC Proms. 
*****
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Urgent and intense: Innocence opens at the Royal Opera House

Vilma Jää (Markéta) and Jenny Carlstedt (Waitress) © ROH | Tristram Kenton
Kaija Saariaho's opera – staged by Simon Stone and the hit of the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival – makes its UK debut.
****1
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Frankfurt Ring concludes with a strong message

Frankfurt Opera's 2012 production of Götterdämmerung with its emphasis on the contemporary human issues was a successful conclusion of the revived Ring.
****1
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Wotan and his women: Die Walküre in Frankfurt

Day two of Frankfurt Ring featured impressive stage work and some superior musical performances, but it was not enough to create a perfect evening of opera.
***11
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