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StockholmFate & Guilt
Tüür, Sibelius
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen; Orphei Drängar; Aphrodite Patoulidou; Peter Mattei; Asya Fateyeva
ParisDon GiovanniNew production
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Finnegan Downie Dear; Louisa Proske; Opéra national de Paris; Stephanie Childress; Christof Hetzer; Kaye Voyce; Valerio Tiberi
VerbierPeter Mattei / Daniel Heide / Winterreise
Schubert: Winterreise (W. Müller), D.911
Peter Mattei; Daniel Heide
New York CityLincoln in the BardoWorld premiere
Mazzoli: Lincoln in the Bardo
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lileana Blain-Cruz; Metropolitan Opera; Steven Osgood; Adam Rigg; Montana Levi Blanco; Yi Zhao
MilanRiccardo Chailly
Bach: St John Passion, BWV245
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; Riccardo Chailly; Coro del Teatro alla Scala; Mark Padmore; Manuel Günther; Anke Vondung
New York CityParsifal
Wagner: Parsifal
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; François Girard; Metropolitan Opera; Michael Levine; Thibault Vancraenenbroeck; David Finn; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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