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LlandudnoBluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex
Bartók, Stravinsky
Lidiya Yankovskaya; Joe Hill-Gibbins; Welsh National Opera; Milla Clarke; Welsh National Opera Orchestra; Nathan Berg
SouthamptonBluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex
Bartók, Stravinsky
Lidiya Yankovskaya; Joe Hill-Gibbins; Welsh National Opera; Milla Clarke; Welsh National Opera Orchestra; Nathan Berg
OxfordBluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex
Bartók, Stravinsky
Lidiya Yankovskaya; Joe Hill-Gibbins; Welsh National Opera; Milla Clarke; Welsh National Opera Orchestra; Nathan Berg
PlymouthBluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex
Bartók, Stravinsky
Lidiya Yankovskaya; Joe Hill-Gibbins; Welsh National Opera; Milla Clarke; Welsh National Opera Orchestra; Nathan Berg
FlorenceWozzeckNew production
Berg: Wozzeck
Thomas Guggeis; Deborah Warner; Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Hyemi Shin; Nicky Gillibrand; Adam Silverman; Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
AmsterdamSalome
Strauss R.: Salome
Lorenzo Viotti; Ivo van Hove; Dutch National Opera; Jan Versweyveld; An D'Huys; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
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Gothic and Greek: Welsh National Opera’s double bill opens in Cardiff
Finding a partner for Bartók's creepy one-acter is a thorny problem, but Welsh National Opera pairs it with Stravinsky's ‘opera-oratorio’ for its season opener.
Wretches like us: the LPO’s concert Wozzeck cuts to the quick
Beautifully prepared singing and playing brings out the tender side to Berg's modernist classic as part of the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival.
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A revelatory orchestral performance and a cast led by Andreas Schager, Christopher Maltman and Elisabeth Strid make this a Siegfried for the record books.
The Royal Opera stages its first Makropulos Case
Katie Mitchell wheels out her tired old tropes in The Makropulos Case, redeemed by its musical performances.
To the Moon and back: Janáček’s Mr Brouček visits Berlin
Robert Carsen's new production of Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr Brouček for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden scores a well-deserved success thanks to a stellar – or rather, lunar – conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
Tcherniakov’s bold reading of Rusalka opens the season in Naples
Dmitri Tcherniakov’s staging of Rusalka in Naples has a starkly modern visual style which occasionally dilutes the story’s emotional impact.