Performer: Mathias Fischer-Dieskau

Matthias Davids’ impressive production needed the dynamism of Dudamel to do justice to Bernstein’s marvellous music.  

Bolcom’s McTeague, a two-act opera based on the 1899 novel McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris, is warmly received at its European première with the Landtheater Linz. 

Stephen Sondheim's gruesome masterpiece Sweeney Todd enjoys a successful and overdue première run at the Vienna Volksoper.

Smetana wrote Prodaná nevěsta (“The Bartered Bride”) as a light Czech folk piece in a playful reply to critics who said that his music was too Wagnerian, or too German for that matter – something not compatible with the growing Czech national consciousness in the period he composed it (1863–66), even though he only showed mild interest in the Czech cause.

In Matthias Davids' Inszenierung hat Offenbachs Gute-Laune-Musik und böses Gemüse immer Saison.

Una ópera escrita rodeado de “tristeza y la mayor infelicidad”, como el propio autor refirió, es difícil que obtenga el prolongado rédito que su factor espera.