What makes La Sylphide especially meaningful for opera lovers is how recognisable its emotional grammar is. You don’t need to be deeply versed in ballet technique to feel at home: the storytelling…
LUISA MILLER | Wiener Staatsoper
There are evenings when Verdi’s Luisa Miller feels less like a prelude to the later tragedies and more like a fully mature, self‑contained world — one where intimacy and power collide, and…
DIE VERKAUFTE BRAUT | Bayerische Staatsoper
The lightness of an opera sometimes becomes its greatest strength — evenings where the joy onstage mirrors the joy in the room, and where a packed audience full of young…
FAURÉ · SAINT‑SAËNS · PROKOFIEV | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonic & Theatric — A Natural Rhyme Some programmes barely need a stage: they play in images, and this one certainly did. Fauré’s PellĂ©as et MĂ©lisande Suite unfolded less like a set…
MADAMA BUTTERFLY | Bayerische Staatsoper
There are evenings when the drama onstage doesn’t so much begin as unfold from the breath of its singers — when the emotional temperature is set not by the podium…
NABUCCO | Bayerische Staatsoper
Opening nights of Nabucco often hinge on the ability of the conductor to grip Verdi’s early and volcanic writing with both discipline and imagination. What unfolded this evening under Francesco Ivan Ciampa was exactly…
Mozart 38 & Bruckner 4 | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Originally announced with Gustavo Dudamel, the programme ultimately fell to Paavo Järvi — and what a stroke of luck. His conducting, as always, was energetic, theatrical, and deeply informed, turning two symphonies into…
THE NUTCRACKER | Bayerische Staatsoper
Staging & Choreography: John Neumeier • Sets & Costumes: JĂĽrgen Rose • Musical Direction: Azim Karimov There are Nutcrackers that simply serve tradition, and others that reshape it to rediscover its meaning. John Neumeier’s…
AKADEMIEKONZERT | Bayerische Staatsoper
Conductor: Vladimir JurowskiSoloist: Francesco Piemontesi An ambitious programme spanning three distinct worlds: the brooding intensity of Rachmaninov, the crystalline elegance of Ravel, and the monumental sweep of Strauss. Jurowski approached…