IL TROVATORE | Wiener Staatsoper
The story may not be the happiest in the repertoire, but we left the GroĂer Saal of the Vienna State...
Month: May 2025
PLACIDO DOMINGO / ANDREA BOCELLI | Arena GenĂšve
Last night in Geneva felt like a crossover event between Superman and Batman â except instead of saving the world,...
HAMLET | Teatro Regio Torino
âTo be or not to be a tenor? That is the questionâ The Teatro Regio in Torino is staging the...
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA / PAGLIACCI | Bayerische Staatsoper
A new CavPag production always comes with its share of expectations, given that this unique pairing of two verismo masterpieces...
DON CARLO |Â Deutsche Oper Berlin
To be perfectly honest, as I write these words from the train back to Lausanne the morning after, I find...
LES VĂPRES SICILIENNES |Â Deutsche Oper Berlin
Some evenings at the opera redefine your relationship with a composerâs workâand May 24 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin was...
DER ROSENKAVALIER | Théùtre des Champs Elysées
It is perhaps the opera that moves me the most. These are the words chosen by Alain Duault at the...
INTERVIEW | SĂ©bastien Rouland – Chef d’Orchestre
Donner Siegfried Ă Versailles, nâest-ce pas une folie ?, dĂ©clare-t-il dâemblĂ©e. Stimmt : rien de plus inopinĂ©, voire incongru. Les stĂ©rĂ©otypes qui entourent...
LA FILLE DU REGIMENT | Teatro San Carlo
Among the most popular of the immense catalogue of Gaetano Donizetti, scornfully called âDozzinettiâ by his detractors, la Fille du...
DAS PARADIES UND DIE PERI | La Seine Musicale
Take a work that carries a message of hope, unfolding across the world - thus speaking to each and every...
PLACIDO DOMINGO | Casino Bern
There are concerts you go to with excitement. Others with curiosity. But then there are those you attend with reverence...
SAMSON ET DALILA | Opéra de Saint Etienne
Camille Saint-SaĂ«nsâ Samson et Dalila received a powerful and deeply compelling performance at the OpĂ©ra de Saint-Ătienne on May 11....
THE QUEEN OF SPADES | Oper Leipzig
The premiĂšre of The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame in German) took place in the warmly inviting setting of the...
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLĂNDER | Staatsoper Berlin
A tout Seigneur, tout honneur ! In The Flying Dutchman, it is with ample means that the score and libretto...
RIGOLETTO | Opernhaus ZĂŒrich
This time, I didnât head to the Swiss capital to hear Verdiâs masterpiece â instead, I went to Switzerlandâs largest...
IL NOME DELLA ROSA | Teatro alla Scala
The challenge was significant: to transpose Umberto Eco's most well-known and popular work to opera, with all its narrative and...
RIGOLETTO | BĂŒhnen Bern
I still canât fully explain â except maybe by invoking pure passion â how it's possible to be this excited...
