This work is known for being the opera of a thousand revisions. Wagner was never satisfied with the outcome of the various versions he worked on over more than 20…
LOHENGRIN |Â Deutsche Oper Berlin
We had already had the chance to see this production back in April. The impressions were overwhelmingly positive: the emotion was tangible, the vocal ensemble was magnificent, from the soloists…
DIE SCHWEIGSAME FRAU | Staatsoper Berlin
The work is far too rare for us to allow ourselves to miss it. It is, alas, the sole collaboration – vivid, vibrant and luminous – between Richard Strauss and…
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE | Bayreuther Festspiele
Some weather websites predicted it would be der heiĂźeste Tag des Jahres. We didn’t try to confirm how accurate that was… but instead saw for ourselves just how wrong the…
DER FREISCHĂśTZ | Bregenzer Festspiele
By the end of the day, our hopes that it would take place where we had wished were fading. The stifling afternoon heat, a harbinger of meteorological unrest, suggested that…
FAUST | Théâtre National de l’OpĂ©ra-Comique
But a ghost is not a corpse (…). It is a living being. Only its body stems from the soul: it has no surplus flesh, no hunger, no thirst, no…
IL TROVATORE | Wiener Staatsoper
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…
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 :…