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Hamburg Philharmonic; Kent Nagano; Jan Vogler; Mira Wang; Daniel Ottensamer
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Barmy, balladic and balmy: three pieces at the Elbphilharmonie
Kent Nagano and the Hamburg Philharmonic contrast barmy Hindemith with balmy Schubert, while Julian Prégardien explores Mahler’s balladic Wayfaring Songs.
Olfactory and ocular obfuscation: The Nose in Hamburg
Kent Nagano and the forces of Staatsoper Hamburg launch their new season with a production of Shostakovich's very first opera in which the ears are beguiled but the eyes are not.
An immersive auto-da-fé: Konwitschny's Don Carlos sizzles
From stylised 16th-century dress to a 1970s sitcom ballet, Konwitschny's Staatsoper staging is full of brilliantly inventive touches, splendidly realised in this excellently sung revival.
Women in the driving seat at the Elbphilharmonie
Alondra de la Parra and Camille Thomas, together with the Hamburg Philharmonic, refute suggestions that there could be a gender gap in the world of music-making.
Hamburg's Die Tote Stadt: excellent singing but muddled staging
Hamburg's revival of a 2015 production is a musical success, but the director's concepts are sometimes too dense to tell a straightforward story.
Christof Loy’s Alcina still bewitches in Hamburg
The 2002 production of Handel’s masterpiece is revived with a solid cast under the baton of Riccardo Minasi.
