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MunichOf One BloodNew production

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Dean: Of One Blood
Vladimir Jurowski; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Étienne Pluss; Ursula Kudrna; Michael Bauer; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

MunichDoctor AtomicNew production

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Adams: Doctor Atomic
Gemma New; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Michael Levine; Ursula Kudrna; Urs Schönebaum; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

The HagueIl Combattimento

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Monteverdi, Gesualdo
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century; Richard Egarr; Ian Bostridge; Anna Prohaska; Sommer Ulrickson; TBC

MunichDoctor AtomicNew production

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Adams: Doctor Atomic
Gemma New; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Michael Levine; Ursula Kudrna; Urs Schönebaum; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

BerlinSalome

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Strauss R.: Salome
Axel Kober; Hans Neuenfels; Staatsoper Berlin; Reinhard von der Thannen; Stefan Bolliger; Staatskapelle Berlin

ViennaTurandot

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Puccini: Turandot
Henrik Nánási; Claus Guth; Vienna State Opera; Étienne Pluss; Ursula Kudrna; Olaf Freese; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
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Claus Guth directs a tormented, harrowing new Salome at the Met

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Claus Guth's new production at the Metropolitan Opera, originally seen at the Bolshoi in 2021, moves the action from biblical Judea to the era of the opera's composition. 
*****
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Oscar Wilde takes centre stage in Staatsoper's Salome

The Staatsoper revives a confused production by Hans Neuenfels, under the baton of Thomas Guggeis.
***11
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Neuenfels' bloodless Salome in Berlin

Hans Neuenfels new Salome proves a strangely non-committal affair at the Staatsoper, but Thomas Guggeis conducts impressively.
***11
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Starkly powerful Jephtha at Dutch National Opera

Concerto Köln, honed to perfection, and an accomplished cast star in Claus Guth's tense, dark staging of Handel's Jephtha. 
****1
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Brett Deans Uraufführung Of One Blood in München

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Mit ausschließlich historischen Dokumenten in alter, poetischer Sprache macht Brett Dean die historische Geschichte um Maria Stuart zur Psycho-Tragödie in Renaissance- wie Gegenwarts-Klang. Eine gelungene Uraufführung an der Bayerischen Staatsoper.
****1
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Recréation et décadence pour Samson au Festival d’Aix

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Le chef et le metteur en scène reconstituent librement l'opéra de Jean-Philippe Rameau daté de 1733, sur un livret de Voltaire, dont la partition est perdue. Une proposition aussi puissante que pertinente.
****1
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Aix-en-ProvenceSamsonWorld premiere

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Rameau: Samson
Raphaël Pichon; Claus Guth; Étienne Pluss; Ursula Kudrna; Bertrand Couderc; Ensemble Pygmalion