LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR | Deutsche Oper Berlin
An opera whose success has never waned, Lucia di Lammermoor remains one of those experiences in which the spectator is,...
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SAINT FRANCOIS D’ASSISE | Salzburger Festspiele
It was never meant to be taken as a traditional opera - Olivier Messiaen himself said so back in 1983....
DER PRINZ VON HOMBURG | Salzburger Festspiele
It was among the most keenly awaited events of the 2026 Salzburger Festspiele. The work itself is a rarity: compact...
GĂTTERDĂMMERUNGÂ | Bayreuther Festspiele
Between the uprisings of 1849 and the apotheosis of 1875 lies the genesis of the Tetralogy. Wagner did not conceive...
SIEGFRIED | Bayreuther Festspiele
La Nature est un temple oĂč des vivants piliers Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles ; Lâhomme y passe Ă ...
LULU |Â Staatstheater NĂŒrnberg
My first memory of Lulu is not operatic but pop-musical. Born into a household where British pop was in full swing, my...
DER ROSENKAVALIER |Â Wiener Staatsoper
To hear and see this opera here makes more sense than anywhere else in the world - save perhaps Dresden...
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTâS DREAM | Deutsche Oper Berlin
When an opera is based on a comedy, one is entitled to expect at least some trace of humour. A...
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS | Staatsoper Berlin
Staging Ariadne auf Naxos is no simple task. Beneath its apparent simplicity - modest duration and relatively small forces - the work...
INTERMEZZO | Semperoper
Depending on your point of departure, Dresden may not be the most accessible destination in Germany. For those living in...
DER ROSENKAVALIER | Staatsoper Berlin
After the triumph of Elektra and the less conclusive venture of Ădipus und die Sphinx, Hofmannsthal felt the need to...
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...
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...
SALOME | Bayerische Staatsoper
Somewhere between the 1930s and 1940s, a group of Jewish men and women gathers in a vast and richly stocked...
DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES | Den Kongelige Opera
The spareness of the décor presages that of the work itself. From the instant the curtain rises, space is yielded...
VIOLANTA | Deutsche Oper Berlin
The work is as rare as it is concise (barely eighty minutes) yet sufficiently incandescent to leave upon its listeners...
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NĂRNBERG | Staatsoper Stuttgart
Opening night for this production, and for many of its soloists as well: no fewer than seventeen role débuts. A...
DER SCHATZGRĂBER | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Restraint touched with elegance returns to the stage of the Deutsche Oper in this revival of Der SchatzgrÀber, in Christof...
DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE | Opéra National du Rhin
Das Wunder der Heliane? It unfolds in Strasbourg, upon the blessed stage of the Opéra national du Rhin which, true...
