SALOME | Bayerische Staatsoper
Somewhere between the 1930s and 1940s, a group of Jewish men and women gathers in a vast and richly stocked...
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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 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...
