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MunichSemele

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Handel: Semele
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Michael Levine; Gesine Völlm; Michael Bauer; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

MunichDoctor AtomicNew production

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Adams: Doctor Atomic
Gemma New; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Michael Levine; Ursula Kudrna; Urs Schönebaum; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

MunichDoctor AtomicNew production

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Adams: Doctor Atomic
Gemma New; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Michael Levine; Ursula Kudrna; Urs Schönebaum; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

New York CityJenůfaNew production

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Janáček: Jenůfa
Tomáš Hanus; Claus Guth; Metropolitan Opera; Michael Levine; Gesine Völlm; James Farncombe; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

ViennaTurandot

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Puccini: Turandot
Henrik Nánási; Claus Guth; Vienna State Opera; Étienne Pluss; Ursula Kudrna; Olaf Freese; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
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Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Johanna Wallroth (Bellezza) and ensemble © Fabrizio Sansoni
Robert Carsen’s staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707. 
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Semele at Dutch National Opera: myth, desire and fantasy

Elsa Benoit (Semele) © Bart Grietens

Guth’s Semele turns myth into a contemporary domestic drama, where desire becomes obsession and illusion consumes reality. Handel’s music remains the true engine, driven by a thrilling, physically intense ensemble.

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Hotel Metamorphosis: Vivaldi reborn through Ovid's lens in Salzburg

Nadezhda Karyazina and Cecilia Bartoli in Hotel Metamorphosis © © SF/Monika Rittershaus

A pasticcio of superb musicianship is the main event at the Venice-themed Whitsun Festival.

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

Elza van den Heever (Salome) © Evan Zimmerman | Met Opera
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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French flair, American-style: Cracknell's Carmen returns to the Met

Clémentine Margaine (Carmen) and Michael Fabiano (Don José) © Nina Wurtzel | Met Opera
An excellent cast led by Clémentine Margaine livens up the first revival of Carrie Cracknell's all-American Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera. 
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Aigul Akhmetshina leads powerhouse cast in the Met’s new Carmen

Rafael Davila (Don José) and Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen) © Ken Howard | Met Opera

Carrie Cracknell’s modernized take on Bizet’s 1875 iconic opera moves the action from early 19th-century Spain to a 21st-century American industrial town.

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ParisDon Pasquale

© Vincent Pontet | OnP
Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Evelino Pidò; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Agostino Cavalca; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisDon Quichotte

Opéra national de Paris
Massenet: Don Quichotte
Patrick Fournillier; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Agostino Cavalca; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

Aix-en-ProvenceSamsonWorld premiere

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Rameau: Samson
Raphaël Pichon; Claus Guth; Étienne Pluss; Ursula Kudrna; Bertrand Couderc; Pygmalion