LA FORZA DEL DESTINO | ChorĂ©gies d’Orange
The weekend promised to be… magnificent!With three operas across two different festivals — Aix-en-Provence to start, and the Chorégies d’Orange...
DER FREISCHĂśTZ | Bregenzer Festspiele
By the end of the day, our hopes that it would take place where we had wished were fading. The...
LES PĂŠCHEURS DE PERLES | Festival d’Aix en Provence
What a discovery! Why hadn’t I experienced this before? I’ve seen three or four Les Pêcheurs de Perles live on...
DON GIOVANNI | Festival d’Aix en Provence
To “give of oneself”: definition — To make a personal effort or sacrifice; to invest one’s time, energy, or physical...
NORMA (cast 2) | Teatro Alla Scala
Temple of opera or Disneyland of classical music? Even in the scorching Italian summer, Teatro alla Scala manages to monopolize...
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN | Opernhaus ZĂĽrich
One of the really cool things about loving opera in general is that it’s like a bottomless well—just like good...
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO | Glyndebourne
What an afternoon! On this July Saturday, in its usual and ever-so-picturesque misty setting, the Glyndebourne Festival offers us a...
LA TRAVIATA | Teatro Real Madrid
The Teatro Real’s revival of Willy Decker’s legendary 2005 staging of La Traviata was nothing short of extraordinary. This minimalist...
NORMA | Teatro alla Scala
Decades of waiting—yes, literal decades—had gone by without Norma being staged in the most iconic theatre of the Italian repertoire....
DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES | Teatro La Fenice
“Avec votre permission, l’ai décidé d’entrer au Carmel” Although Poulenc's masterpiece has now firmly entered the repertoire in theaters all...
FAUST | Théâtre National de l’OpĂ©ra-Comique
But a ghost is not a corpse (...). It is a living being. Only its body stems from the soul:...
LA TRAVIATA | Grand Théâtre de Genève
How is it possible to let this happen? How can I maintain any critical subjectivity after witnessing such a disastrous...
COSI FAN TUTTE | Opéra de Lyon
On June 18, 2025, the Opéra de Lyon offered up a refreshingly original and engaging version of Cosi fan tutte that charmed...
IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO | Teatro San Carlo
Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa was performed for the first time at the Burgtheater in Vienna on February 7,...
MANON | Opéra National Paris
Back at the Opéra Bastille, Massenet’s Manon made its return in a revival that had originally promised a dual cast...
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA | Opéra National Paris
On this warm Parisian evening, Opéra de Paris brought back Damiano Michieletto’s visually striking and brilliantly clever production, and it’s...
SEMIRAMIDE | Théâtre des Arts – Rouen
Rossini’s Semiramide is a rare gem on today’s opera stages, so first off: hats off to the Opéra de Rouen...
ANDREA CHENIER | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Among the pinnacles of the verismo repertoire, Andrea Chénier holds a special place — and, as always with Giordano, it...
CARMEN | Deutsche Oper Berlin
If you know a little about what I do, first of all, and after reading the rest of this article,...
LA TRAVIATA |Â Deutsche Oper Berlin
It is a fragile but essential balance that La Traviata always demands: between the luminous lightness of its melodic flights...
