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Frauenliebe und -sterben: Kratzer’s triple bill at Staatsoper Hamburg
Director Tobias Kratzer engineers a haunting pasticcio of Schumann, Bartók and Zemlinsky, tracing the domestic sphere’s shift from romantic surrender to the blood-soaked secrets of a century-spanning house.
Vampires, Disney and Donald Trump: Monster’s Paradise in Hamburg
Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek take on Donald Trump in their latest operatic collaboration.
Unsuk Chin's opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes premieres in Hamburg
At Staatsoper Hamburg, Unsuk Chin’s new opera The Dark Side of the Moon immerses audiences in an hypnotic, introspective journey, where dreams, science and psyche collide in a rigorously crafted, thought-provoking spectacle.
Franciscan virtues for a modern age: a multimedia Messiaen remix
No half measures in a triple-decker Hamburg staging of Saint François d'Assise at the Elbphilharmonie.
Staatsoper Hamburg's new Boris Godunov traverses Russian history
Opening the new opera season, Kent Nagano powerfully directs Mussorgsky's great psychodrama about a famous tsar, marred only by Frank Castorf's visually confusing and symbolically overweighted production.
Beauty and the beast: Sciarrino's Venere e Adone premieres in Hamburg
What does opera in the 21st century look and sound like? Streets removed from anything Mozart, Verdi or Wagner would have recognised. But Salvatore Sciarrino is his own man.
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Dreams and documentaries: opera world premieres
We preview nine major new operas on stage this season in Europe, from composers including Unsuk Chin, Rebecca Saunders, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Philip Venables and Toshio Hosokawa.