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Tchaikovsky Noir: Mazeppa gets the gangster treatment in Frankfurt
The gritty realism of Matthew Wild’s updated production can’t quite save Tchaikovsky’s historic drama in its Frankfurt premiere.
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.
Weinberg’s Dostoevsky drama crushes at MusikTheater an der Wien
Vasily Barkhatov directs a new production of Mieczysław Weinberg's rarely staged, massive and unwieldy opera at the MuseumsQuartier.
Lolita in Prague: a bold foray into forbidden love
The National Theater opens the season with Rodion Shchedrin's searing version of Lolita, with spectacularly disturbing results.
Demonic obsessions in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel in Rome
In Emma Dante's staging we are viewing an allegory of death as painted in the medieval frescoes of Italian cemeteries.
Episodenhaftes Künstlerleben: die „andere” Bohème in Graz
Musikalisch hat Leoncavallos La bohème an der Grazer Oper viel Schönes zu bieten; dramaturgische Schwächen des Werks offenbaren sich im konzertanten Setting jedoch gnadenlos.