TRISTAN UND ISOLDE | Oper Frankfurt
Oper Frankfurt opens the early spring season with a revival of Katharina Thoma's 2020 production. The staging is marked by...
Month: March 2026
DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES | Opéra de Marseille
A new production of Dialogues des Carmélites always raises the same fundamental question: how to reconcile the work’s metaphysical density...
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN | Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Few works demand such a precarious equilibrium between fantasy and coherence as Les contes d’Hoffmann. Too much caricature, and the...
IL TROVATORE | Hamburgische Staatsoper
Il trovatore is, perhaps more than any other Verdi opera, a work of extremes: structurally fragmented, dramatically implausible at times,...
RIGOLETTO | Bayerische Staatsoper
New Rigoletto at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Should we go? And if so, why? For the story? Not really, as it...
LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK | Komisch Oper Berlin
The aesthetic violence matches the musical intensity. Remembering that, for its composer, this opera was a "satirical tragedy", where "satirical"...
DON CARLO | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Long acclaimed for its merits, the current Don Carlo at the Deutsche Oper nonetheless proves a revelation to those approaching...
ONEGIN | Bayerische Staatsoper
Created in 1965 by John Cranko and part of the repertoire of the Bayerisches Staatsballett since 1972, Onegin remains one...
SEMIRAMIDE | Teatro Massimo Palermo
Rossini's monumental opera, composed for Venice's La Fenice, where it premiered on February 3, 1823, with Isabella Colbran in the...
FIDELIO | Bayerische Staatsoper
What a magnificent production of Fidelio by Calixto Bieito. A director whose work can sometimes feel conceptually overbearing here finds...
MACBETH | Teatro Regio Torino
Some evenings at the opera are planned weeks in advance. Others are dreamed about for months. For me, this Macbeth...
FAUST | Opéra de Tours
Co-produced with the Opéra Royal de Versailles, this new production of Faust by Charles Gounod, staged by Jean‑Claude Berutti, offers...
HOSOKAWA · BEETHOVEN · BRAHMS | Münchner Philharmoniker
A Symphonic Narrative, Built from the Inside OutSome concerts tell stories without words, and this evening was one of them....
FAUST | Bayerische Staatsoper
A new production of Faust at the Bayerische Staatsoper, staged by Lotte de Beer, offers a reading that is clear,...
SALOME | Bayerische Staatsoper
Somewhere between the 1930s and 1940s, a group of Jewish men and women gathers in a vast and richly stocked...
LA GIOCONDA | Gran Teatre del Liceu
There are operas you fall in love with instantly. And then there are operas like La Gioconda. For me, Ponchielli’s...
TAMERLANO | Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
The International Händel Festival taking place at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe presents Handel's Tamerlano. It’s a prime opportunity to...
