IL TROVATORE | Wiener Staatsoper
The story may not be the happiest in the repertoire, but we left the Großer Saal of the Vienna State...
Month: May 2025
PLACIDO DOMINGO / ANDREA BOCELLI | Arena Genève
Last night in Geneva felt like a crossover event between Superman and Batman — except instead of saving the world,...
HAMLET | Teatro Regio Torino
“To be or not to be a tenor? That is the question” 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 | Deutsche Oper Berlin
To be perfectly honest, as I write these words from the train back to Lausanne the morning after, I find...
LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Some evenings at the opera redefine your relationship with a composer’s work—and May 24 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin was...
DER ROSENKAVALIER | Théâtre des Champs Elysées
It is perhaps the opera that moves me the most. These are the words chosen by Alain Duault at the...
INTERVIEW | Sébastien Rouland – Chef d’Orchestre
Donner Siegfried à Versailles, n’est-ce pas une folie ?, déclare-t-il d’emblée. Stimmt : rien de plus inopiné, voire incongru. Les stéréotypes qui entourent...
LA FILLE DU REGIMENT | Teatro San Carlo
Among the most popular of the immense catalogue of Gaetano Donizetti, scornfully called “Dozzinetti” 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-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila received a powerful and deeply compelling performance at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne on May 11....
THE QUEEN OF SPADES | Oper Leipzig
The première of The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame in German) took place in the warmly inviting setting of the...
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER | Staatsoper Berlin
A tout Seigneur, tout honneur ! In The Flying Dutchman, it is with ample means that the score and libretto...
RIGOLETTO | Opernhaus Zürich
This time, I didn’t head to the Swiss capital to hear Verdi’s masterpiece — instead, I went to Switzerland’s 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 | Bühnen Bern
I still can’t fully explain — except maybe by invoking pure passion — how it's possible to be this excited...
