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Fish, frocks and farce: a Prokofiev romp in Vienna
Damiano Michieletto directs a slick and frequently hilarious staging of Prokofiev's comic opera Betrothal in a Monastery.
Barrie Kosky’s reimagined Golden Cockerel launches Adelaide Festival
Continuing Adelaide’s partnership with the Aix-en-Provence Festival another impressive, quirky, creative, imaginative Barry Kosky opera has enriched Adelaide’s Festival scene.
All that glitters: Barrie Kosky's Coq d'or opens in Lyon
Its premiere postponed from Festival d'Aix last summer, Barrie Kosky's staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's political satire finally takes place in Lyon.
Enescu’s ambitious only opera opens LPO season
The London Philharmonic’s concert performance of Enescu’s Oedipe proves an extravagant but triumphant way to launch the orchestra’s new Royal Festival Hall season.
A blazing Oedipe kicks off Bucharest’s Enescu Festival
Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO gave a stunning performance of Enescu’s operatic masterpiece, despite a dramatically limp concert staging.
Slavonic, dramatic, overwhelming - Janáček's Glagolitic Mass at the Royal Festival Hall
In a concert of two halves, the Philharmonia fail to convince with Suk and Dvořák but provide a thrilling rendition of Janáček's Glagolitic Mass, a choral work that is dramatic, operatic, giant in scale and unique in style.