DER ROSENKAVALIER | Staatsoper Berlin
After the triumph of Elektra and the less conclusive venture of Ă–dipus und die Sphinx, Hofmannsthal felt the need to...
Highlights
DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES | Teatro Regio Torino
It is noteworthy that Poulenc's masterpiece has enjoyed a growing presence on Italian stages in recent years. After Rome and...
BILLY BUDD | Opéra National de Lyon
Presented for the first time in its history at the Opéra de Lyon, Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten is staged...
Elīna Garanča | Opera de Monte-Carlo
Concluding a refined and significantly stimulating season, the Monte-Carlo Opera presented an operatic recital with orchestra by Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča. ...
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...
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...
MACBETH | Teatro Regio Torino
Some evenings at the opera are planned weeks in advance. Others are dreamed about for months. For me, this Macbeth...
SALOME | Bayerische Staatsoper
Somewhere between the 1930s and 1940s, a group of Jewish men and women gathers in a vast and richly stocked...
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, Ponchielli’s...
RINALDO | Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
As part of its Internationale Händel-Festspiele, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe is reviving the production of Rinaldo that was first presented...
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...
NORMA | Teatro Regio Parma
This was a date I had been waiting for for a long time. The main reason was Vasilisa Berzhanskaya. I...
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR | Opéra National du Capitole
For this final revival of Nicolas Joël’s classic production, the Toulouse Opera unveiled an international caliber principal cast, raising expectations...
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE | Teatro Carlo Felice
“Since I have never in my life enjoyed the true happiness of love, I intend to erect a further monument...
VIOLANTA | Deutsche Oper Berlin
The work is as rare as it is concise (barely eighty minutes) yet sufficiently incandescent to leave upon its listeners...
L’ELISIR D’AMORE | The State Opera – Prague
If there is one place where I feel comfortable, at ease, and truly at home, it is the State Opera...
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NĂśRNBERG | Staatsoper Stuttgart
Opening night for this production, and for many of its soloists as well: no fewer than seventeen role débuts. A...
DER SCHATZGRĂ„BER | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Restraint touched with elegance returns to the stage of the Deutsche Oper in this revival of Der Schatzgräber, in Christof...
