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DresdenRoméo et Juliette
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Giampaolo Bisanti; Barbara Wysocka; Semperoper Dresden; Barbara Hanicka; Julia Kornacka; Fabio Antoci; Staatskapelle Dresden
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Katharina Müllner; Josef Ernst Köpplinger; Semperoper Dresden; Nicholas Carter; Giulio Cilona; Walter Vogelweider; Dagmar Morell
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Thielemann bids farewell to Dresden with an excellent new FroSch
David Bösch directs a creative and thoughtful new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Semperoper in Christian Thielemann's final opera as Principal Conductor.
There will be blood: Elektra in Salzburg
An Elektra conducted like Mendelssohnian fairy music, sung not shouted, just as Strauss required.
Song of Destiny: Enescu's Oedipe at the Salzburg Festival
Salzburg's new staging of Enescu's operatic epic Oedipe is a visual and musical triumph.
Peter Konwitschny returns to the Semperoper with Les Huguenots
John Osborn leads a very successful premiere of Peter Konwitschny's new production of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots in Dresden
Folk rhythms and changing times in Dresden's Bartered Bride
What brought real distinction and authenticity to the evening, as so often in this house, was the outstanding playing of the Staatskapelle conducted by Tomaš Netopil. From the start of the overture with its rapidly scurrying fugato for strings and pointed phrasing from the woodwind one felt the true sense of Smetana’s Czech inflected rhythms and harmonies
On the rocks: An ice-cold Salome in Salzburg
An astonishing performance by Asmik Grigorian is central to the Italian director's disturbing reading of a disturbing opera.