The story may not be the happiest in the repertoire, but we left the GroĂźer Saal of the Vienna State Opera with full hearts. Filled with a shared enthusiasm (both…
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, they came to save music lovers’ hearts. Yes, I’m talking…
HAMLET | Teatro Regio Torino
“To be or not to be a tenor? That is the question” The Teatro Regio in Torino is staging the world première version of Ambroise Thomas’ masterpiece with the title…
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 consistently sparks a wide range of passionate and varied interpretations….
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 myself asking a bold and perhaps blasphemous question: Have Les…
LES VĂŠPRES SICILIENNES |Â 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 exactly that. Les VĂŞpres Siciliennes may often be considered the…
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 beginning of the section dedicated to Rosenkavalier in his Dictionnaire amoureux de l’opĂ©ra….
INTERVIEW | SĂ©bastien Rouland
Donner Siegfried Ă Versailles, n’est-ce pas une folie ?, dĂ©clare-t-il d’emblĂ©e. Stimmt : rien de plus inopinĂ©, voire incongru. Les stĂ©rĂ©otypes qui entourent l’un et l’autre n’admettent que très mal pareille extravagance :…
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 rĂ©giment is a stable presence on the schedule of theaters…