OTELLO | Opéra de LiÚge
There are evenings that naturally attract attention, and this performance of Otello in LiĂšge was certainly one of them. Not only because...
TOSCA | Teatro Regio Torino
There are operas you love. There are operas you could happily watch every season. And then there is Tosca. Tosca is one...
La Cenerentola / Palais Garnier
The volcano is already rumbling in the overture. Ăric Ruf's set â blackened walls fissured with subterranean light, the floor...
NORMA | Bayerische Staatsoper
There is no opera that punishes imprecision more ruthlessly than Norma. Every exposed line, every phrase of cantabile over the...
DIE ENTFĂHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL | Bayerische Staatsoper
Ultz's opening image for Martin Duncan's production announces itself without ceremony: a Turkish crescent on a blazing field, the geometry...
L’AGAMENNONE | BĂŒhnen Bern
Sometimes a review is easy to write because you leave the theatre with a head full of melodies, unforgettable voices,...
MOZART / ZEMLINSKY | Orchestre National de France
Alexander Zemlinsky spent most of his career in the slipstream of more celebrated composers, and La Petite SirĂšne â the...
VERDI | SĂ€chsische Staatskapelle Dresden
The Verdi Requiem had already been heard once in Paris this season â Gianandrea Noseda conducted it in March with...
LULU |Â Staatstheater NĂŒrnberg
My first memory of Lulu is not operatic but pop-musical. Born into a household where British pop was in full swing, my...
MACBETH | Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova
The first of three operas written by Giuseppe Verdi, based on Shakespeare's plays, returns to Genoa, in a musically successful...
AIDA | Teatro Massimo di Palermo
There are opera houses you visit.And then there are opera houses you dream about for years before finally stepping inside....
DER ROSENKAVALIER |Â Wiener Staatsoper
To hear and see this opera here makes more sense than anywhere else in the world - save perhaps Dresden...
I PURITANI | Teatro Regio Torino
Some theaters become familiar over time.And then there are theaters that slowly become part of your opera life. Before even...
NABUCODONOSOR | Teatro Alla Scala
There are reviews⊠and then there are nights like this one.Nights that remind you why you fell in love with...
DVOĆĂK / MARTINĆź / STRAVINSKY / RAVEL | Concertgebouworkest
V pĆĂrodÄ â In Nature's Realm â is the opening panel of a DvoĆĂĄk triptych of concert overtures the symphonic...
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO | Dutch National Opera
Two scars across an otherwise glowing evening. Dutch National Opera's new Nozze di Figaro gives us Mozart at the level...
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTâS DREAM | Deutsche Oper Berlin
When an opera is based on a comedy, one is entitled to expect at least some trace of humour. A...
RECITAL ETIENNE DUPUIS | Opéra National de Lyon
After a triumphant portrayal of Henri Ashton in the production of Lucie de Lammermoor at the Opéra Comique, the Canadian...
HAYDN, ADĂMEK, BRAHMS | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Two end-points of a great musical spectrum, the Gasteig brochure called this programme, with OndĆej AdĂĄmek's Where Are You? set...
IL TROVATORE | Bayerische Staatsoper
Caruso is supposed to have said that all Il trovatore requires is âthe four greatest singers in the worldâ â...
