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The early flowering of opera: a fragrant L’Orfeo at Schwetzingen
Markus Bothe’s Botticelli-inspired production fuses tableau vivant aesthetics with Jörg Halubek’s surgical musical precision, offering a peerless, vivid tribute to the fragrant dawn of opera.
Low on laughs: Die schweigsame Frau in Berlin
Newly General Music Director Christian Thielemann and Jan Philipp Gloger bring Richard Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau to the Staatsoper Berlin for the first time, but la commedia is hardly stupenda.
Love in time of the drug wars: a contemporary Tancredi at Bregenz
Anna Goryachova and Mélissa Petit shine as doomed lovers Tancredi and Amenaide, while Jan Philipp Gloger's contemporary setting has much to offer, but doesn't quite nail the landing.
Göttlicher Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Der Mannheimer Monteverdi-Zyklus beginnt mit einem fulminanten Feuerwerk, das man gesehen haben muss.