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RomeRiccardo Minasi / Beethoven "Eroica"

Fondazione Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Beethoven
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Riccardo Minasi; Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Coro di voci bianche dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala; Benedetta Torre; Elene Gvritishvili

StrasbourgLes voix de l'humanité

Strasbourg Philharmonic
Schoenberg, Beethoven
Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg; Aziz Shokhakimov; Eleanor Lyons; Anna Kissjudit; Siyabonga Maqungo; Hanno Müller-Brachmann

BayreuthDas RheingoldNew production

Das Rheingold © Enrico Nawrath | Bayreuther Festspiele
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Christian Thielemann; Marcus Lobbes; Wolf Gutjahr; Pia Maria Mackert; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra; Nils Corte

BerlinLa VestaleNew production

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Spontini: La Vestale
Carlo Rizzi; Lydia Steier; Staatsoper Berlin; Giuseppe Mentuccia; Étienne Pluss; Katharina Schlipf; Valerio Tiberi

BerlinDie Zauberflöte

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Tim Fluch; August Everding; Staatsoper Berlin; Fred Berndt; Dorothée Uhrmacher; Franz Peter David; Staatskapelle Berlin

MilanChristmas Concert

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Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 in D minor "Choral", Op.125
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; Myung-whun Chung; Valentina Farcaş; Fleuranne Brockway; Siyabonga Maqungo; Simon Lim
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Das Rheingold at the Bayreuth Festival: “404 Regie not found”

Das Rheingold © Enrico Nawrath | Bayreuther Festspiele
Fans of Regietheater and purists alike are in for a rough ride with this new AI-generated Ring at the Bayreuth Festival, although Christian Thielemann delivers a memorable performance to mark the 150th anniversary.
***11
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Cheap laughs in Staatsoper Berlin’s new Entführung aus dem Serail

Bülent Ceylan (Bassa Selim), David Steffens (Osmin) and Adela Zaharia (Konstanze) © Stephan Rabold
Andrea Moses transforms Mozart’s opera into a hybrid of Singspiel, stand-up comedy and cabaret, a concept that rarely deepens the work and often competed directly with it.
***11
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Low on laughs: Die schweigsame Frau in Berlin

Siyabonga Maqungo (Henry Morosus), Brenda Rae (Aminta) and Peter Rose (Sir Morosus) © Bernd Uhlig
Newly General Music Director Christian Thielemann and Jan Philipp Gloger bring Richard Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau to the Staatsoper Berlin for the first time, but la commedia is hardly stupenda
**111
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A new Ring in Milan! Das Rheingold shines at La Scala

Ólafur Sigurdarson (Alberich), Andrea Carroll, Svetlina Stoyanova and Virginie Verrez (Rhinemaidens) © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

La Scala presents a new production of Richard Wagner's masterpiece by David McVicar with a superb cast under the considerate baton of Simone Young.

****1
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Parsifal in Augmented Reality at the Bayreuth Festival

Elīna Garanča (Kundry) © Enrico Nawrath
Jay Scheib spices up the visual experience with digital content in his production of Parsifal. Sounds good. But is it?
***11
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All that glitters is not gold: Mitridate, Re di Ponto in Berlin

Pene Pati (Mitridate) © Bernd Uhlig
The Staatsoper Unter den Linden's multi-seasonal Baroque project continues with a new production of Mozart's first opera seria, which roars and soars under the conducting of Marc Minkowski.
****1
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