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MunichUn ballo in maschera

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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Marco Armiliato; Johannes Erath; Bavarian State Opera; Heike Scheele; Gesine Völlm; Joachim Klein; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

HamburgLa traviata

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Verdi: La traviata
Sesto Quatrini; Johannes Erath; Staatsoper Hamburg; Annette Kurz; Herbert Murauer; Olaf Freese; Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Frankfurt am MainAlcina

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Handel: Alcina
Julia Jones; Johannes Erath; Oper Frankfurt; Kaspar Glarner; Joachim Klein; Opera Frankfurt Orchestra

BerlinManon LescautNew production

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Bertrand de Billy; Johannes Erath; Staatsoper Berlin; Kaspar Glarner; Birgit Wentsch; Olaf Freese; Staatskapelle Berlin

BerlinManon Lescaut

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Bertrand de Billy; Johannes Erath; Staatsoper Berlin; Kaspar Glarner; Birgit Wentsch; Olaf Freese; Staatskapelle Berlin
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Salvation, damnation and circus magic: Teatro alla Scala’s new Faust

Alex Esposito (Méphistophélès) and Vittorio Grigolo (Faust) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala

The Teatro alla Scala closes its season with a visually audacious new production of Faust, directed by Johannes Erath, and driven by Daniele Rustioni’s fiery conducting. 

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A hole in the heart: Johannes Erath’s new Elektra grips Tokyo

Elektra at the New National Theatre Tokyo © Rikimaru Hotta
The New National Theatre Tokyo season ends with a powerful new production of Richard Strauss’ Elektra featuring an impressive house debut by Estonian soprano Aile Asszonyi. 
****1
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Waiting for Kurtág: Fin de partie receives Berlin premiere

Laurent Naouri (Hamm) © Monika Rittershaus
Director Johannes Erath and conductor Alexander Soddy bring György Kurtág's first and only opera to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, starting the year with a dash of Beckett.
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Anastasia Bartoli a regal Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival

Anastasia Bartoli (Ermione) © Amati Bacciardi

The ROF presents a new production of Ermione, a title not often performed, with a star-studded cast including divo Juan Diego Flórez. 

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Freitag, der Dreizehnte celebrates Schoenberg at the Reaktor

Magdalena Anna Hofmann, Christine Schäfer and Klangforum Wien © Werner Kmetitsch
What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.
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Puccini and Bartók nightmares at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome

Il tabarro © Opera di Roma | Fabrizio Sansoni
Michele Mariotti and Johannes Erath lead us into the caverns of Il tabarro and Bluebeard’s Castle with two stories of violence against women 
****1
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MilanFaustNew production

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Gounod: Faust
Daniele Rustioni; Johannes Erath; Teatro alla Scala; Heike Scheele; Gesine Völlm; Fabio Antoci; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala