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StockholmFate & Guilt

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Tüür, Sibelius
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen; Orphei Drängar; Aphrodite Patoulidou; Peter Mattei; Asya Fateyeva

ParisDon GiovanniNew production

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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

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Schubert: Winterreise (W. Müller), D.911
Peter Mattei; Daniel Heide

New York CityLincoln in the BardoWorld premiere

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Mazzoli: Lincoln in the Bardo
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lileana Blain-Cruz; Metropolitan Opera; Steven Osgood; Adam Rigg; Montana Levi Blanco; Yi Zhao

MilanRiccardo Chailly

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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

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Wagner: Parsifal
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; François Girard; Metropolitan Opera; Michael Levine; Thibault Vancraenenbroeck; David Finn; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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Musical tributes to Festival d’Aix as it wins Birgit Nilsson Prize

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Pierre Audi is remembered in words and music as the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence receives $1m – the richest prize in classical music – at Stockholm’s Konserthuset. 

Claus Guth directs a tormented, harrowing new Salome at the Met

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Claus Guth's new production at the Metropolitan Opera, originally seen at the Bolshoi in 2021, moves the action from biblical Judea to the era of the opera's composition. 
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Heggie’s newly staged Moby Dick lands triumphantly at the Met

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Fifteen years after its Dallas Opera world premiere, Jake Heggie’s grand adaptation of Herman Melville’s sprawling epic arrives in New York in a stunning production with a standout cast.  

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Ivo van Hove's bleak, effective Don Giovanni arrives at the Met

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Peter Mattei's smooth-as-silk baritone leads a handsome cast in the Metropolitan Opera's bleak new production of Mozart's great dramma giocoso
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A fine showing for the 1884 Italian version of Don Carlo at the Met

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A revival for Sir David McVicar's staging from last season, but this time reverting from French to the four-act Italian version, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. 
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Luisi masters Mahler with Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

The towering Fifth Symphony was cohesive and unusually refined, while Peter Mattei brought elegance and passion to Kindertotenlieder.
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At the helm of the Met: Peter Gelb

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The General Manager of America's operatic flagship talks about the forthcoming season, singers, production styles and why Two Boys never made it into the cinema.