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Blending magic with loss: Herheim’s reimagined Amahl in Vienna
There is magic aplenty in director Stefan Herheim’s bold recontextualization of Gian Carlo Menotti's holiday opera.
Méphistophélès returns to the stage in Gounod’s Faust at La Fenice!
The Teatro La Fenice reprises Joan Anton Rechi’s production in its full stage version, less inspiring than the one expanded through the whole theatre during Covid times.
Hasse’s Artaserse in Munich: an unusual pasticcio
Hasse’s Artaserse in Munich was a pasticcio using music from that work to tell the story of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth and to celebrate of Anja Silja.
An homage to Wilhelmine von Bayreuth with Hasse's Artaserse
In a pasticcio of Hasse’s Artaserse and Ezio, director Balázs Kovalik and the students of the Theaterakademie August Everding stage the life of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth.
Mixed success for Leipzig's futuristic Turandot
Balázs Kovalik's new dystopian Turandot is musically rousing but let down by a production that's more 1970s TV series than slick modern sci-fi.
Die Frau ohne Schatten in Leipzig
For an inventive production, fine singing and magnificent orchestral playing, this new Leipzig Die Frau ohne Schatten deserves every success.