Performer: Wilhelm Schwinghammer

BarcelonaDas Rheingold

Gran Teatre del Liceu: Auditorium, 2027 Feb 07, 10, 13, 15, 18, 21

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Jonathan Nott; Tobias Kratzer; Gran Teatre del Liceu; Rainer Sellmaier; Michael Bauer; Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu

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Theater an der Wien, Oct 17, 20, 22, 25, 28, 30

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

Robert Jindra; Philipp Stölzl; MusikTheater an der Wien; Ursula Kudrna; Vienna Symphony Orchestra

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Gábor Káli; Louisa Muller; MusikTheater an der Wien; Madeleine Boyd; Malcolm Rippeth; Vienna Symphony Orchestra

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Blending magic with loss: Herheim’s reimagined Amahl in Vienna

Wiener Sängerknabe (Amahl) and Dshamilja Kaiser (Amahl's Mother) © Monika and Karl Forster

Chanda VanderHart, 17 Dec

There is magic aplenty in director Stefan Herheim’s bold recontextualization of Gian Carlo Menotti's holiday opera.

****1

Daniela Köhler (Brünnhilde) © Bayreuther Festspiele | Enrico Nawrath

Matthew Rye, 13 Aug

Will Siegfried get his girl? Will she turn out to be his sister? And has the ultimate prize already got into the wrong hands? More posers from Bayreuth's intriguing new Ring.

****1

Elisabeth Teige (Freia), Attilio Glaser (Froh) and Christa Mayer (Fricka) © Bayreuther Festspiele | Enrico Nawrath

Matthew Rye, 10 Aug

The Bayreuth Festival's new Ring gets off to a promising start with a tautly directed Rheingold, but will we find out what it all means?

****1

Stag do: David Bösch's loveless Lustige Weiber at the Staatsoper

Hugo Shirley, 03 Oct

Barenboim conducts Otto Nicolai's Falstaff opera with a warmth and affection that is sorely lacking on stage.

***11

Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s Bayreuth take on Parsifal

Zoltán Szabó, 30 Jul

Despite its enigmatic details, Bayreuth's Parsifal reaches a cathartic climax.

****1

Kosky’s Meistersinger conquers Bayreuth again

Zoltán Szabó, 27 Jul

Kosky’s production manages to maintain all hallmarks of a 16th-century fairy tale, while juxtaposing them with questions of deep human, political and artistic problems. Regietheater at its best.

*****

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