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A melancholic operetta - "Giuditta": classic Lehár, but staged with a cabaret twist by Pierre-André Weitz at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg à la Marlene Dietrich c. "Morocco." Thomas Rösner conducts magnificently. operanationaldurhin.eu/en/spectacles/… (Photos: Klara Beck)

The world premiere of John Adams' "Antony and Cleopatra" a few years ago in San Francisco wasn't exactly overwhelming. The Metropolitan Opera, one of the co-producers, has now made some adjustments, with some success. Strong performances from #GeraldFinley and Julia Bullock in the title

The #GöttingenHandelFestival could well be described as a festival of voices. What a beautiful duet Louise Kemény and Yuriy Mynenko deliver toward the end of #Tamerlano as the long kept apart, sorrow-stricken lovers Asteria and Andronico, gently and quietly intertwining a rich

Somewhere between "Faust" and "Oppenheimer": #UnsukChin's second opera, "The Dark Side of the Moon" just had its world premiere at the #HamburgStateOpera, where it was received with much applause. Inspired by the true relationship between quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and

With #CavPag, Mascagni's #CavalleriaRusticana and Leoncavallo's #Pagliacci, the Bavarian State Opera puts a repertoire evergreen on stage. But #FrancescoMicheli's production feels as if Intendant Serge Dorny let loose a first-year student from theatre school: full of ideas, none

Despite - or because of - all efforts, it was a maximally unsensual first act of #Tannhäuser at the #ViennaStateOpera, contrasting with the second. The vocal performances deserved neither praise nor criticism. And the tight orchestral accompaniment (except for a very solemn

Premiere at the Gärtnerplatztheater Munich: In a wonderfully slapstick production of "L'elisir d' amore" by Dirk Schmeding, #JenniferOLoughlin shines with delicate top notes as the sexy, self-confident Adina, the young, smart tenor #MatteoIvanRašić as the initially shy, then,

Lotte de Beer's staging of "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Vienna #Volksoper offers some entertaining ideas, but at times slips too far into adolescent "American Pie"-style humor. #OmerMeirWellber and the orchestra breathe fresh life into the evening; Matilda Sterby shines as

Still the old genius: a quarter of a century after the legendary #Götterdämmerung in Stuttgart's "Ring of the Nibelung," staged by four different directors, the climax of the cycle returns, unchanged, as conclusion of the first #PeterKonwitschny-"Ring," which the director has

The #Mainfrankentheater's interim venue, with its industrial charm, may not allow for the most ambitious directing and stage design tools. Yet director Till Kleine-Möller conjures up an effective #Carmen, #VeroMiller (title part) and #JongwooKim (Don José) delivering a strong

Puccini's first opera, #LeVilli, was brought back from obscurity in a concert version at the #OperGraz. While it can't rank with the composer's later successes, it is nonetheless a thrilling and captivating rarity. The #GrazPhilharmonic, in particular, made the evening a truly

Not a Vivaldi best-of, but Vivaldi's finest vocal and instrumental works crossed with Ovid's "Metamorphoses", resulting in a completely new work: #HotelMetamorphosis, conceived by #BarrieKosky (director and concept) and #GianlucaCapuano (musical conductor), now staged at the

Shortly before the renovation of the historic Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, #Turandot's riddles are being solved one last time. With relish, #CatherineFoster fires her top notes into the night like lightning bolts. She comes across as animated and full of joy, something

Why a staged version? #AndreasHomoki picks Mendelssohn's #Elias as the final production of his directorship at the Opernhaus Zürich: the symbolically reduced story of a fanatic, though without taking a clear stance on him; instead, you get yet another turn of the revolving stage.

At the De Nationale Opera, Kirill Serebrennikov sets the downfall of the authoritarian ruler #BorisGodunov in the front elevation of a prefab apartment block. Its social structures, largely intact at the beginning despite the inhabitants' poverty, increasingly decay into a picture of