INTERVIEW | Eve-Maud Hubeaux
French below. Lloyd (Opera Diary) : Before taking on the role of Ariodante at the Beaune International Baroque Opera Festival,...
ARIODANTE | Festival International d’Opéra baroque de Beaune
On July 4, the Festival International d'Opéra Baroque de Beaune presented a concert performance of Handel's Ariodante. The evening carried...
LA BAYADERE | Opera de Paris
There is a question opera lovers always end up asking themselves when a ballet programme lands in their hands: what...
L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA | Opéra National de Lyon
Prima la voce ! The Opéra de Lyon brings its remarkable season to a close with Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea....
VANESSA | Spoleto Festival
It is one of Italy's finest festivals, founded in 1958 by the brave vision of Gian Carlo Menotti, an Italian-born American...
OTELLO | Opéra de Liège
There are evenings that naturally attract attention, and this performance of Otello in Liège was certainly one of them. Not only because...
TOSCA | Teatro Regio Torino
There are operas you love. There are operas you could happily watch every season. And then there is Tosca. Tosca is one...
La Cenerentola / Palais Garnier
The volcano is already rumbling in the overture. Éric Ruf's set — blackened walls fissured with subterranean light, the floor...
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL | Bayerische Staatsoper
Ultz's opening image for Martin Duncan's production announces itself without ceremony: a Turkish crescent on a blazing field, the geometry...
NORMA | Bayerische Staatsoper
There is no opera that punishes imprecision more ruthlessly than Norma. Every exposed line, every phrase of cantabile over the...
L’AGAMENNONE | Bühnen Bern
Sometimes a review is easy to write because you leave the theatre with a head full of melodies, unforgettable voices,...
MOZART / ZEMLINSKY | Orchestre National de France
Alexander Zemlinsky spent most of his career in the slipstream of more celebrated composers, and La Petite Sirène — the...
VERDI | Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
The Verdi Requiem had already been heard once in Paris this season — Gianandrea Noseda conducted it in March with...
LULU | Staatstheater Nürnberg
My first memory of Lulu is not operatic but pop-musical. Born into a household where British pop was in full swing, my...
MACBETH | Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova
The first of three operas written by Giuseppe Verdi, based on Shakespeare's plays, returns to Genoa, in a musically successful...
AIDA | Teatro Massimo di Palermo
There are opera houses you visit.And then there are opera houses you dream about for years before finally stepping inside....
DER ROSENKAVALIER | Wiener Staatsoper
To hear and see this opera here makes more sense than anywhere else in the world - save perhaps Dresden...
I PURITANI | Teatro Regio Torino
Some theaters become familiar over time.And then there are theaters that slowly become part of your opera life. Before even...
NABUCODONOSOR | Teatro Alla Scala
There are reviews… and then there are nights like this one.Nights that remind you why you fell in love with...
DVOŘÁK / MARTINŮ / STRAVINSKY / RAVEL | Concertgebouworkest
V přírodě — In Nature's Realm — is the opening panel of a Dvořák triptych of concert overtures the symphonic...