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Beethoven and slimline Strauss in Budapest
The tiniest orchestral details were discernible with tremendous clarity.
Frank Castorf’s Ring returns to Bayreuth
Bayreuth's controversial Ring returns with a new conductor and a refreshed cast.
An expressionistic Wozzeck at La Scala
The set is a stark, grubby nonentity. A central concave structure spits out each scene's requisites, flashing up like apparitions from the vortex of Wozzeck's mind.
“Oh world within the world!”: FroSch in Zurich
Zurich’s Opera House takes on Die Frau ohne Schatten, one of Richard Strauss’ most convoluted and technically demanding works.
Naxos capitulates, Mattila’s Ariadne reigns
As revivals go, Karita Mattila and Jane Archibald make the Royal Opera's Ariadne auf Naxos a must-see.
Arabella at The Met
Michael Volle stars as a complex Mandryka in the Met's birthday revival of Richard Strauss's Arabella.