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...
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DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG | Staatsoper Stuttgart
Opening night for this production, and for many of its soloists as well: no fewer than seventeen role débuts. A...
DER SCHATZGRÄBER | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Restraint touched with elegance returns to the stage of the Deutsche Oper in this revival of Der Schatzgräber, in Christof...
L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI | Grand Théâtre de Genève
In Geneva, people usually come for the auditory experience, not necessarily the visual one, and proving I'm not one to...
WERTHER | Opéra Comique
Almost a year ago, Pene Pati and Adèle Charvet made their respective role debuts as Werther and Charlotte in a...
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...
LA CENERENTOLA | Teatro Regio – Torino
My last Cenerentola was so long ago that the website you're reading this review on didn't even exist yet, and...
CARMEN | Opernhaus Zürich
The house is sold out this evening for the revival of Andreas Homoki’s production, which plays with a mise en...
THE PASSENGER | Opéra National du Capitole
There are subjects that demand every ounce of tact one can summon merely to approach them, yet they cannot evade...
NABUCCO | Teatro San Carlo
The production of Nabucco, which inaugurated the year 2026 at the most beautiful theater in theworld, can be considered the...
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE | Gran Teatre del Liceu
A glittering evening, as beguiling as it was enchanting. The première of a superb production in which the avowed minimalism,...
GSTAAD NEW YEAR MUSIC FESTIVAL
Quel plaisir... Hope, Eternity, Talent, and Sublime. These are the four words that define the four evenings I spent in...
DIE FLEDERMAUS | Deutsche Oper Berlin
A vibrant sense of ensemble spirit radiated from the stage of the Deutsche Oper Berlin on this 31 December. As...
ELEKTRA | Wiener Staatsoper
It was not the rising of the curtains but their sudden fall, like the proclamation of an Old Testament prophecy,...
STIFFELIO | Teatro di Piacenza
For me, coming to Piacenza every year to see my very last opera of the season is always more than...
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN | Opéra National de Lyon
After Venice, Sydney and London, the production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann as seen through the eyes of Damiano Michieletto has...
CHOWANSCHTSCHINA | Staatsoper Berlin
Moussorgsky’s Chowanschtschina stands as a singular achievement: a human comedy transposed into music, a vast operatic river whose currents are...
DON GIOVANNI | Opéra de Massy
The concept astonishes, the impact resounds. Thus begins an evening in which, summoned to the stage, the orchestra ignites from...
L’ELISIR D’AMORE | Liceu – Barcelona
Let me start with something bold: this production of L’Elisir d’Amore is without a doubt in my Top 10 operas...
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN | Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin
Pene Pati's role debut as Hoffmann and the provocative Lydia Steier's direction of this iconic opera were more than enough...
