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Martijn Dendievel; Ersan Mondtag; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Jef Smits; Josa Marx; Rainer Casper
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Staatsoper Hamburg's new Boris Godunov traverses Russian history
Opening the new opera season, Kent Nagano powerfully directs Mussorgsky's great psychodrama about a famous tsar, marred only by Frank Castorf's visually confusing and symbolically overweighted production.
Parsifal in Augmented Reality at the Bayreuth Festival
Jay Scheib spices up the visual experience with digital content in his production of Parsifal. Sounds good. But is it?
Rued Langgaard's Antikrist receives only its fourth ever staging
The good and the bad are always within us in Rued Langgaard opera Antikrist, performed here in Ersan Mondtag's vibrant new production.
House arrested: Janáček's last opera in Munich
The profusion of images and ideas in Frank Castorf's Bavarian Staatsoper production of From the House of the Dead threatens to rob Janáček's opera of its humanity.
Twilight zone: a stirring Bayreuth Götterdämmerung
Frank Castorf's controversial but supremely well-cast Ring cycle is provocative to the last.
Croc work: Siegfried teases at Bayreuth
Visual references both incongruous and perceptive abound in the third instalment of Bayreuth's musically triumphant Ring cycle.