Chilling Dialogues des Carmélites in Brussels Olivier Py’s successful Paris production of Poulenc’s gripping masterpiece has made its way to the recently-reopened La Monnaie, with two different casts. The production is sober and dark, and […]
La Favorite: beautiful bel canto in Liège The Opéra Royal de Wallonie’s new production of Donizetti’s rarely-performed French opera La Favorite is definitely worth a visit, not in the least due to tenor Celso Albelo’s […]
Exciting voices in a static production of Nabucco in Essen At the Aalto-Musiktheater, Andreas Baesler’s 2009 production is currently revived for a run of three performances. The staging is adequate, but not much more than […]
Thrilling Le Prophète in Essen After World War II, Meyerbeer’s operas did not regain the popularity they had enjoyed before the 1930s. In the post-war period, ‘Grand opéra’ was deemed dated, excessively long and too […]
Dark Fliegende Holländer at Opera Vlaanderen In her newest production of der Fliegende Holländer at Opera Vlaanderen, director Tatjana Gürbaca impressively explores the dark sides of greed and the excesses of capitalism. This interpretation is […]
Exciting and Touching Norma in Essen Bellini’s Norma is not an easy opera to stage. The demanding title role requires a soprano with considerable vocal as well as dramatic talents in order to convey […]
Like Nietzsche’s moustache or Wagner’s sideburns, Tchaikovsky’s characteristic beard is an immediately recognisable feature of the composer. In the Dutch National Opera´s production of Pique Dame, the character, biography and sexual orientation of Pyotr Ilyich […]
Under the title ‘Young Directors’, Elliott Carter’s 1999 opera What Next? and Leonard Bernstein’s 1952 opera Trouble in Tahiti are currently performed as a double bill at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The combination is […]
Stefan Herheim’s Essen production of Don Giovanni, which earned the Norwegian director his first election (of three) as opera director of the year by Opernwelt in 2007, still impresses almost ten years after its premiere. […]
A little over a week ago, The Aalto-Musiktheater in Essen witnessed this season’s final performance of a new production of The Greek Passion. It is to be hoped that Jiří Heřman’s gripping production of p […]
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