ALCINA | Bayerische Staatsoper
Every opera house is an enchanted island, and no work knows it better than Alcina. Handel's sorceress rules a realm...
Henri
NORMA | Bayerische Staatsoper
Earlier this season, JĂŒrgen Rose's long-serving production was heard at the Nationaltheater with Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, a mezzo-soprano who brought her...
MACBETH | Bayerische Staatsoper
Martin KuĆĄej's Macbeth has been in the Bayerische Staatsoper's repertoire since 2008 and has not lost a gram of its...
DIE WALKĂRE | Bayerische Staatsoper
There are evenings at the opera that stay with you for years because something in them exceeds what you were...
TURANDOT | Bayerische Staatsoper
A new run of La Fura dels Baus's Turandot at the Bayerische Staatsoper. And what a cast to bring it...
LA BAYADERE | Opera de Paris
There is a question opera lovers always end up asking themselves when a ballet programme lands in their hands: what...
La Cenerentola / Palais Garnier
The volcano is already rumbling in the overture. Ăric Ruf's set â blackened walls fissured with subterranean light, the floor...
NORMA | Bayerische Staatsoper
There is no opera that punishes imprecision more ruthlessly than Norma. Every exposed line, every phrase of cantabile over the...
DIE ENTFĂHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL | Bayerische Staatsoper
Ultz's opening image for Martin Duncan's production announces itself without ceremony: a Turkish crescent on a blazing field, the geometry...
MOZART / ZEMLINSKY | Orchestre National de France
Alexander Zemlinsky spent most of his career in the slipstream of more celebrated composers, and La Petite SirĂšne â the...
VERDI | SĂ€chsische Staatskapelle Dresden
The Verdi Requiem had already been heard once in Paris this season â Gianandrea Noseda conducted it in March with...
DVOĆĂK / MARTINĆź / STRAVINSKY / RAVEL | Concertgebouworkest
V pĆĂrodÄ â In Nature's Realm â is the opening panel of a DvoĆĂĄk triptych of concert overtures the symphonic...
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO | Dutch National Opera
Two scars across an otherwise glowing evening. Dutch National Opera's new Nozze di Figaro gives us Mozart at the level...
HAYDN, ADĂMEK, BRAHMS | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Two end-points of a great musical spectrum, the Gasteig brochure called this programme, with OndĆej AdĂĄmek's Where Are You? set...
IL TROVATORE | Bayerische Staatsoper
Caruso is supposed to have said that all Il trovatore requires is âthe four greatest singers in the worldâ â...
BRUCKNER 7 | Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
The Adagio of the Seventh â written in part as a tombeau for Wagner, scored for the first time in...
SIMON BOCCANEGRA | MĂŒnchner Rundfunkorchester
There is a snobbery about concert performances of opera that the genre rarely deserves and almost never bears out. Strip...
BRAHMS / ELGAR | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
There are pianists one admires, and then there are pianists who make admiration feel like an inadequate response. Igor Levit...
MACBETH | Bayerische Staatsoper
Verdi was thirty-three years old. The great trilogy did not yet exist. Rigoletto, Trovatore, Traviata â none of it. And...
IL TROVATORE | Opéra de Monte-Carlo
There is something quietly miraculous about Il Trovatore. Dismissed by snobs and adored by the masses, Verdi's most melodically concentrated...
