Performer: Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

BerlinFinnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Helsinki Chamber ChoirConcert performance

Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Fri 28 Aug at 19:00

Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre

Nicholas Collon; Frederic Wake-Walker; Nils Schweckendiek; Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Helsinki Chamber Choir; Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

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Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma: Sala Santa Cecilia, Oct 21, 24 mat, 27

Wagner: Siegfried

Daniel Harding; Vincent Huguet; Pierre Yovanovitch; Edoardo Russo; Christophe Forey; Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

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Philharmonie de Paris: Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Tue 9 Mar at 20:00

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Gianandrea Noseda; Orchester der Oper Zürich; Michael Volle; Klaus Florian Vogt; Christopher Purves

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Philharmonie de Paris: Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Fri 12 Mar at 18:30

Wagner: Siegfried

Gianandrea Noseda; Orchester der Oper Zürich; Klaus Florian Vogt; Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke; Michael Volle

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Happy 100th birthday, Wozzeck! Thielemann leads Berlin revival

Sir Simon Keenlyside (Wozzeck) and Stephan Milling (Doctor) © Stephan Rabold

Elena Luporini, 14 Dec

The Staatsoper Unter den Linden celebrates the 100th birthday of Alban Berg's masterpiece with a stellar cast in Andrea Breth’s revived production.

***11

Mark Pullinger, 11 Jul

Even locked behind a music stand, like a caged panther in a sleek black gown, Grigorian’s Salome bristles with dramatic energy in Barbican concert performance of Strauss’ “scherzo with a fatal conclusion”.

*****

Klaus Florian Vogt (Siegfried) and Camilla Nylund (Brünnhilde) © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

Laura Servidei, 21 Jun

McVicar’s most successful Ring chapter yet: Siegfried convinces with beautiful imagery and a stellar cast, with Alexander Soddy at the baton.

****1

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

Laura Servidei, 03 Nov

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

Nina Stemme (Elektra) © Monika Rittershaus

Ako Imamura, 26 Mar

The Baden-Baden Easter Festival presents an extraordinary performance of Elektra, with Nina Stemme in the title role and the Berliner Philharmoniker, led by Kirill Petrenko, in a stark and modern production.

*****

Dramatic music-making at its finest as Homoki's Zurich Ring begins

Andrew Larkin, 30 Apr

A match made in heaven: director's Homoki's compelling interpretation of Das Rheingold is married to exciting musical direction from Gianandrea Noseda, not to mention the stellar cast of singers.

*****

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