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,...
WOZZECK | Staatsoper Berlin
Wozzeck, Alban Berg's masterpiece, turns 100. The first performance took place on December 14, 1925, at the Berlin Staatsoper, under...
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...
DIE FLEDERMAUS | Deutsche Oper Berlin
A vibrant sense of ensemble spirit radiated from the stage of the Deutsche Oper Berlin on this 31 December. As...
ELEKTRA | Wiener Staatsoper
It was not the rising of the curtains but their sudden fall, like the proclamation of an Old Testament prophecy,...
STIFFELIO | Teatro di Piacenza
For me, coming to Piacenza every year to see my very last opera of the season is always more than...
LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK | Teatro Alla Scala
La Scala's brave decision to open the new season with Shostakovich's masterpiece is a courageous choice: the audiences who fill...
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN | Opéra National de Lyon
After Venice, Sydney and London, the production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann as seen through the eyes of Damiano Michieletto has...
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA | Teatro Comunale di Bologna
After missing a performance of La Bohème due to a car accident between Parma and Bologna, I absolutely had to...
ERNANI | Teatro Filarmonico di Verona
I have to say it straight away: I was genuinely happy that evening. Not only because I was about to...
HÄNSEL & GRETEL | Bayerische Staatsoper
Some performances remind us that opera is, above all, an art of sharing — and this matinée was a perfect...
CHRISTMAS EVE | Bayerische Staatsoper
Some works seem tailor‑made to ignite a theatre’s imagination, and Rimsky‑Korsakov’s Christmas Eve is certainly one of them. The Bayerische Staatsoper presents...
LOHENGRIN | Teatro Dell’Opera di Roma
Opening a season in Rome is never a trivial gesture. In Italy more than anywhere else, a first night carries...
CHOWANSCHTSCHINA | Staatsoper Berlin
Moussorgsky’s Chowanschtschina stands as a singular achievement: a human comedy transposed into music, a vast operatic river whose currents are...
DON GIOVANNI | Opéra de Massy
The concept astonishes, the impact resounds. Thus begins an evening in which, summoned to the stage, the orchestra ignites from...
NORMA | La Monnaie de Munt
For my last European weekend trip by plane, my heart was set on Norma in Brussels. After Milan, Gstaad, and...
TOSCA | Greek National Opera
One hundred and twenty-five years after its first performance in Rome on January 14, 1900, Athens also paid homage to...
L’ELISIR D’AMORE | Liceu – Barcelona
Let me start with something bold: this production of L’Elisir d’Amore is without a doubt in my Top 10 operas...
LUCREZIA BORGIA | Teatro de la Maestranza
I travelled to Seville almost entirely for one reason: to see Marina Rebeka in her role debut as Lucrezia Borgia....
DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES | Wiener Staatsoper
“I watched over every note, paid attention to the right vowels on the high sounds, ensured a completely natural prosody,...
