Presented for the first time in its history at the OpĆ©ra de Lyon, Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten is staged by the companyās director, Richard Brunel. It is no small…
ElÄ«na GaranÄa | Opera de Monte-Carlo
Concluding a refined and significantly stimulating season, the Monte-Carlo Opera presented an operatic recital with orchestra by Latvian mezzo-sopranoĀ ElÄ«na GaranÄa.Ā She is undoubtedly one of the most charismatic and authoritative…
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 Johannes Leiacker’s paredāback set design, the same throughout all three…
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” means an indictment of the cynicism and contempt of Russia’s…
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 it anew. The eye is first caught by Marco Arturo…
SEMIRAMIDE | Teatro Massimo Palermo
Rossini’s monumental opera, composed for Venice’s La Fenice, where it premiered on February 3, 1823, with Isabella Colbran in the title role, returns to Palermo after an absence of nearly…
MACBETH | Teatro Regio Torino
Some evenings at the opera are planned weeks in advance. Others are dreamed about for months. For me, this Macbeth at the Teatro Regio di Torino belonged firmly to the…
SALOME | Bayerische Staatsoper
Somewhere between the 1930s and 1940s, a group of Jewish men and women gathers in a vast and richly stocked library. As in all places where books are handled and…
LA GIOCONDA | Gran Teatre del Liceu
There are operas you fall in love with instantly. And then there are operas like La Gioconda. For me, Ponchielliās Venetian epic has always been something I listen to in…