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MunichTannhäuser
Wagner: Tannhäuser
Nathalie Stutzmann; Romeo Castellucci; Bavarian State Opera; Bayerisches Staatsorchester
MunichKoma / Il combattimento di Tancredi e ClorindaNew production
Haas, Monteverdi
Bas Wiegers; Romeo Castellucci; Bavarian State Opera; Bayerisches Staatsorchester
SalzburgSaint François d'AssiseNew production
Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise
Maxime Pascal; Romeo Castellucci; Vienna Philharmonic
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Romeo Castellucci directs a new Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala
The Italian director makes his long-awaited Italian operatic debut at the Teatro alla Scala in a production which perfectly mirrors Debussy’s most enigmatic creation.
Straussian pastoral: Daphne at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Romeo Castellucci's new production of Daphne for the Staatsoper reflects on our relationship with nature, subverting the perspective of Richard Strauss' opera.
Bluebeard as psychothriller in Castellucci's mismatched double bill
Romeo Castellucci's intense production of Bartók's opera reaps its rewards in the performance under Teodor Currentzis, but Carl Orff's opera-oratorio De temporum fine comoedia feels little more than a drab filler.
To die in order to live: Castellucci's Resurrection
Following his Requiem at the 2019 Aix Festival, Romeo Castellucci surprises us with the purity and humility of his Mahler Second, conducted remarkably by Esa-Pekka Salonen.
A hole in the heart: Salzburg Festival’s new Don Giovanni
The pairing of controversial director and bad-boy conductor brings some thrills but the Salzburg Festival's new Don Giovanni proves disappointingly uninvolving.
Castellucci’s makeover of Mozart’s Requiem at the Adelaide Festival
A work designed to be performed in church has become a dramatic music theatre event that captured and held me enthralled throughout in a meditation on both death and life.
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ParisMoses and Aron
Schoenberg: Moses and Aron
Philippe Jordan; Romeo Castellucci; Opéra national de Paris; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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Birgit Nilsson Prize awarded to Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Classical music’s most lucrative award, of $1 million, has been given to the prestigious French summer opera festival, in particular recognition of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence.
Condemned to success: Bayerische Staatsoper's Nikolaus Bachler
The irrepressible man of the theatre and Intendant of one the flagships of German opera gives us an insight into what makes him and his company tick.