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Underscoring the power of the orchestra: Ostrava Days

The Ostrava New Orchestra © Martin Popelar
Comprised of some 60 musicians from 16 countries, the Ostrava New Orchestra paint pictures of prisons and caves, gardens and machines, in works by students and 20th-century masters.
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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.
****1
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Modern terror: Salome in Stuttgart

Director Kirill Serebrennikov gives us a frightening new reality of the modern world beset by war and terrorism in his reimagining of Strauss's Salome
****1
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Modern Merriment in Ostrava

Spirits ran high and the music captivated record crowds at this year's Ostrava Days New and experimental Music Festival.
*****
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Alban Bergs Lulu imponiert am Staatstheater Nürnberg

Juliana Zara (Lulu) und Tristan Blanchet (Maler) © Pedro Malinowski
Jens-Daniel Herzogs Neuinszenierung von Frank Wedekinds und Alban Bergs Operndrama Lulu überzeugt im Mix von Tragödie, Groteske und Komödie mit bewundernswerter musikalischer Qualität am Staatstheater Nürnberg.
*****
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Erschütternde Dramatik von Weinbergs Passagierin in Weimar

Sarah Mehnert (Lisa) und Emma Moore (Marta) © Candy Welz
Vielleicht die bedeutendste Oper der Gegenwart: Am Deutschen Nationaltheater Weimar gelang eine überaus kompetente und stimmlich herausragende Inszenierung von Mieczysław Weinbergs Die Passagierin.
*****
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