Live EventsSee more...
ZürichWerther
Massenet: Werther
Giedrė Šlekytė; Tatjana Gürbaca; Zurich Opera; Klaus Grünberg; Silke Willrett; Charles Castronovo; Stéphanie d'Oustrac
ZürichLucia di LammermoorNew production
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Speranza Scappucci; Tatjana Gürbaca; Zurich Opera; Klaus Grünberg; Silke Willrett; Massimo Cavalletti; Lisette Oropesa
BerlinWozzeck
Berg: Wozzeck
Matthias Pintscher; Andrea Breth; Staatsoper Berlin; Martin Zehetgruber; Silke Willrett; Matthias Goerne; Eva-Maria Westbroek
Latest reviewsSee more...
A dreary Katya Kabanova is rescued by great singing at the Staatsoper
The Staatsoper Unter den Linden revives Andrea Breth’s desolate production of Janáček’s masterpiece with a great cast led by conductor Thomas Guggeis.
Cold discomfort: an uncompromising Kát'a Kabanová
Eva-Maria Westbroek proves an outstanding Káťa in the Staatsoper's revival of Janáček's opera, powerfully conducted by Simon Rattle.
Oper Halle's Jephtha lacks coherency
Jephtha at the Halle Handel Festival subverts the text, and provides little in the way of dramatic or musical compensation.
Provocation as part of the package
Juan Diego Flórez stars as Goethe’s archetypal Romantic poet in Massenet's Werther in Zurich.
Celestial music, but a distracting production
Die Zauberflöte may well tell us something about the Human Condition, but its staging in Zurich serves more to distract from the music and the messages than it does to support them.
Glitter and black ostrich feathers prevail in WNO's Nabucco
Rudolf Frey's production of Nabucco for Welsh National Opera undercuts the solemnity and beauty of the opera, detracting from some fine performances.
