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BarcelonaMahler Universe - Symphony no. 8

© Paco Amate
Mahler: Symphony no. 8 in E flat major "Symphony of a Thousand"
Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu; Josep Pons; Elisabeth Teige; Jacquelyn Wagner; Serena Sáenz; Beth Taylor

BarcelonaBayreuth Festival Orchestra & Heras-Casado

© Javier Salas
Wagner
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Pablo Heras-Casado; Katharina Wagner; Catherine Foster; Klaus Florian Vogt; Nicholas Brownlee

SevilleBayreuth Festival Orchestra / Gala Wagner

© Javier Salas
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen: extraits
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Pablo Heras-Casado; Katharina Wagner; Catherine Foster; Klaus Florian Vogt; Nicholas Brownlee

MadridGira de la Orquesta del Festival de Bayreuth

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Wagner
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Pablo Heras-Casado; Katharina Wagner; Catherine Foster; Klaus Florian Vogt; Nicholas Brownlee

MunichSiegfriedNew production

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Wagner: Siegfried
Vladimir Jurowski; Tobias Kratzer; Bavarian State Opera; Rainer Sellmaier; Michael Bauer; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

BarcelonaDas Rheingold

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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Jonathan Nott; Tobias Kratzer; Gran Teatre del Liceu; Rainer Sellmaier; Michael Bauer; Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu
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Sir David McVicar’s psychologically driven Salome arrives in Chicago

Alex Boyer (Herod) and Jennifer Holloway (Salome) © Kyle Flubacker
Revived at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the notorious opera director’s take stirs sympathy for Salome, but leans on some of his theatrical hobby-horses
****1
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And they were the most divine gods: Das Rheingold in Munich

Markus Brück (Alberich), Yajie Zhang, Verity Wingate and Sarah Brady (Rhinemaidens) © Wilfried Hösl
Tobias Kratzer's prelude to this new Ring cycle exceeds all expectations and scores a musical-theatrical success.
*****
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Chaos in the Underworld: Andriy Zholdak directs Fidelio at DNO

Jacquelyn Wagner (Leonore) © Monika Rittershaus | Dutch National Opera
The Ukrainian director's “revisioning” of Beethoven's only opera plunges it into an incoherent underworld in Amsterdam.
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Irish National Opera serves up a terrifically entertaining Faust

Nicholas Brownlee (Méphistophélès) and Duke Kim (Faust) © Pat Redmond
Jack Furness turns Faust into an Oppenheimer-type scientist in a powerful, well-sung staging in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. 
****1
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Tézier rules in Zurich's still socially-distanced Simon Boccanegra

Andreas Homoki’s production suffers from last season's Covid restrictions, resulting in an alienating, aloof performance, but under the energetic baton of Marco Armiliato, it still proves a very successful musical evening.

A blast of a Berlin Bohème in Hollywood

Barrie Kosky's stark, spare La bohème gave it a rare spark of humanity focused on Marina Costa-Jackson's haunting Mimì, whose existence became the central focus even when she wasn't singing.
*****
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Annandale-on-HudsonThe Miracle of Heliane

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Korngold: Das Wunder der Heliane
Leon Botstein; Christian Räth; Esther Bialas; Aušrinė Stundytė; Alfred Walker