DER FREISCHÜTZ | Bregenzer Festspiele
By the end of the day, our hopes that it would take place where we had wished were fading. The...
Vinicius
FAUST | Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique
But a ghost is not a corpse (...). It is a living being. Only its body stems from the soul:...
IL TROVATORE | Wiener Staatsoper
The story may not be the happiest in the repertoire, but we left the Großer Saal of the Vienna State...
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...
INTERVIEW | Sébastien Rouland – Chef d’Orchestre
Donner Siegfried à Versailles, n’est-ce pas une folie ?, déclare-t-il d’emblée. Stimmt : rien de plus inopiné, voire incongru. Les stéréotypes qui entourent...
DAS PARADIES UND DIE PERI | La Seine Musicale
Take a work that carries a message of hope, unfolding across the world - thus speaking to each and every...
THE QUEEN OF SPADES | Oper Leipzig
The première of The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame in German) took place in the warmly inviting setting of the...
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER | Staatsoper Berlin
A tout Seigneur, tout honneur ! In The Flying Dutchman, it is with ample means that the score and libretto...
IL NOME DELLA ROSA | Teatro alla Scala
The challenge was significant: to transpose Umberto Eco's most well-known and popular work to opera, with all its narrative and...
LOHENGRIN | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Countless criteria can be considered to judge whether an operatic performance has been successful (or not). One of the most...
DER ROSENKAVALIER | Oper Frankfurt
Strauss/Hofmanntsthal's best opera? Some will say so outright. Others will be more cautious, and think of the masterpieces Die Frau...
KATA KABANOVA | Bayerische Staatsoper
Zázrak! Vskutku třeba říci, že zázrak! (Wonderful! You’ve got to admit, it’s wonderful!) That's how Kudrjáš (James Ley) begins Leoš...
THE GAMBLER | Staatsoper Stuttgart
In an extra-planetary Roulettenbourg, resembling the Sierra Nevada, a semi-circle with illuminated contours emerges, sinking into the uneven ground and...
SALOME | Deutsche Oper Berlin
At first sight, the parallel between Salome and the fashion world might seem fairly intuitive, but someone had to try...
ARABELLA | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Much more than a Fiakerball on Faschingsdienstag, the Arabella currently being produced at the Deutsche Oper Berlin is an exposé...
PELLEAS ET MELISANDE | Opéra National de Paris
Above all, I respected the character and life of my characters; I wanted them to express themselves outside of me,...
GUERCŒUR | Oper Frankfurt
Some operas play a pivotal role, both in the careers of those involved in their production and in the public's...
THE ENCHANTRESS | Oper Frankfurt
The piece in question is rare enough to start this review with: "how can this story, one of Tchaikovsky's masterpieces,...
DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Deutsche Oper has taken on the challenge of staging Die Frau ohne Schatten after a hiatus of several years. And...
DAS RHEINGOLD | Opéra National de Paris
We've been waiting a long time for this première, and impatiently. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the production originally scheduled...
