ELEKTRA | Wiener Staatsoper
It was not the rising of the curtains but their sudden fall, like the proclamation of an Old Testament prophecy,...
Year: 2025
STIFFELIO | Teatro di Piacenza
For me, coming to Piacenza every year to see my very last opera of the season is always more than...
LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK | Teatro Alla Scala
La Scala's brave decision to open the new season with Shostakovich's masterpiece is a courageous choice: the audiences who fill...
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN | OpĂ©ra National de Lyon
After Venice, Sydney and London, the production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann as seen through the eyes of Damiano Michieletto has...
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA | Teatro Comunale di Bologna
After missing a performance of La Bohème due to a car accident between Parma and Bologna, I absolutely had to...
ERNANI | Teatro Filarmonico di Verona
I have to say it straight away: I was genuinely happy that evening. Not only because I was about to...
HĂ„NSEL & GRETEL | Bayerische Staatsoper
Some performances remind us that opera is, above all, an art of sharing — and this matinée was a perfect...
CHRISTMAS EVE | Bayerische Staatsoper
Some works seem tailor‑made to ignite a theatre’s imagination, and Rimsky‑Korsakov’s Christmas Eve is certainly one of them. The Bayerische Staatsoper presents...
LOHENGRIN | Teatro Dell’Opera di Roma
Opening a season in Rome is never a trivial gesture. In Italy more than anywhere else, a first night carries...
CHOWANSCHTSCHINA | Staatsoper Berlin
Moussorgsky’s Chowanschtschina stands as a singular achievement: a human comedy transposed into music, a vast operatic river whose currents are...
DON GIOVANNI | Opéra de Massy
The concept astonishes, the impact resounds. Thus begins an evening in which, summoned to the stage, the orchestra ignites from...
NORMA | La Monnaie de Munt
For my last European weekend trip by plane, my heart was set on Norma in Brussels. After Milan, Gstaad, and...
TOSCA | Greek National Opera
One hundred and twenty-five years after its first performance in Rome on January 14, 1900, Athens also paid homage to...
L’ELISIR D’AMORE |Â Liceu – Barcelona
Let me start with something bold: this production of L’Elisir d’Amore is without a doubt in my Top 10 operas...
LUCREZIA BORGIA | Teatro de la Maestranza
I travelled to Seville almost entirely for one reason: to see Marina Rebeka in her role debut as Lucrezia Borgia....
DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES | Wiener Staatsoper
“I watched over every note, paid attention to the right vowels on the high sounds, ensured a completely natural prosody,...
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN | Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin
Pene Pati's role debut as Hoffmann and the provocative Lydia Steier's direction of this iconic opera were more than enough...
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR | Wiener Staatsoper
Laurent Pelly proves once again that he is among the finest interpreters of Donizetti on stage. His production, already familiar...
SALOME | Komische Oper Berlin
In Richard Strauss's one-act Salome, the audience's collective verdict is revealed only at the curtain call. Yet the fervour of...
OTELLO | Teatro Bellini – Catania
Two weeks after my Otello in Prague, you would think the excitement would calm down… but no. I arrived in...
