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...
TOSCA | Staatsoper Berlin
Friday the 13th may carry a reputation for bad luck, but at the Staatsoper Berlin, there was nothing unfortunate about...
FAURÉ · SAINT‑SAËNS · PROKOFIEV | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonic & Theatric — A Natural Rhyme Some programmes barely need a stage: they play in images, and this one...
COSI FAN TUTTE | Opera de Monte-Carlo
Don Alfonso sings, "The faith of women is like the phoenix; everyone says it exists, but no one knows where...
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...
MADAMA BUTTERFLY | Bayerische Staatsoper
There are evenings when the drama onstage doesn’t so much begin as unfold from the breath of its singers —...
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...
MACBETH | Teatro Coccia di Novara
Last Sunday, January 25, 2026, I attended a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth at the Teatro Coccia in Novara, and...
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...
