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SalzburgDuke Bluebeard's Castle / De temporum fine comoediaNew production
Bartók, Orff
Teodor Currentzis; Romeo Castellucci; Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
BerlinDaphneNew production
Strauss R.: Daphne
Thomas Guggeis; Romeo Castellucci; Staatsoper Berlin; Staatskapelle Berlin
NaplesMozart: Requiem
Mozart: Requiem
Raphaël Pichon; Romeo Castellucci; Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo
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VitrollesResurrectionNew production
Mahler: Symphony no. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'
Orchestre de Paris; Esa-Pekka Salonen; Romeo Castellucci
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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.
Barocktage opens with a murder: Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio
Romeo Castellucci’s inspiring and spiritual production lands in Berlin, with a superb cast of Baroque specialists and the B’Rock Orchestra under the baton of René Jacobs.
On the rocks: An ice-cold Salome in Salzburg
An astonishing performance by Asmik Grigorian is central to the Italian director's disturbing reading of a disturbing opera.