FIDELIO | Bayerische Staatsoper
What a magnificent production of Fidelio by Calixto Bieito. A director whose work can sometimes feel conceptually overbearing here finds...
MACBETH | Teatro Regio Torino
Some evenings at the opera are planned weeks in advance. Others are dreamed about for months. For me, this Macbeth...
FAUST | Opéra de Tours
Co-produced with the Opéra Royal de Versailles, this new production of Faust by Charles Gounod, staged by Jean‑Claude Berutti, offers...
HOSOKAWA · BEETHOVEN · BRAHMS | Münchner Philharmoniker
A Symphonic Narrative, Built from the Inside OutSome concerts tell stories without words, and this evening was one of them....
FAUST | Bayerische Staatsoper
A new production of Faust at the Bayerische Staatsoper, staged by Lotte de Beer, offers a reading that is clear,...
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...
TAMERLANO | Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
The International Händel Festival taking place at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe presents Handel's Tamerlano. It’s a prime opportunity to...
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...
LISETTE OROPESA | Crans-Montana
Social media often receives its fair share of criticism, but sometimes it delivers something truly special. Just a week ago,...
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...
LA SYLPHIDE | Bayerische Staatsoper
What makes La Sylphide especially meaningful for opera lovers is how recognisable its emotional grammar is. You don’t need to be deeply...
LUISA MILLER | Wiener Staatsoper
There are evenings when Verdi’s Luisa Miller feels less like a prelude to the later tragedies and more like a fully mature,...
DIE VERKAUFTE BRAUT | Bayerische Staatsoper
The lightness of an opera sometimes becomes its greatest strength — evenings where the joy onstage mirrors the joy in...
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...
TURANDOT | Deutsche Oper Berlin
I hesitated for a long time before writing the lines that follow. You know Opera Diary’s primary motivation: to inspire...
