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Vienna in a frenzy : Elektra returns with Nina Stemme as Klytämnestra

Memories… Memories Let's start with a memory. Queuing at the Paris Opera at the Palais Garnier for a performance of Tosca in those days when queues…

Vienna in mixed colours : A new Fidelio with (good) intentions produced without convincing

The impossible opera It has often been written that Fidelio is a paradoxical work. It is popular, celebrated as one of the classics of the international…

In Hamburg, Ruslan and Lyudmila ‘free to will, free to act and free to enjoy’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieX8Q7pzuT0 Premise Ruslan and Ludmila, considered the first Russian national opera, opened the renovated Bolshoi Theatre in 2011 in a production by Dmitri Tcherniakov conducted by…

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Gatti and the Berliners : A wonderful encounter for a “counter-programme” .

Germany offers Daniele Gatti some sweet consolation for his recent disappointment in Milan : during this week in October 2025, he rehearsed in the morning…

Lucerne Festival 2022 : when Mahler sounds like Otto Dix painted

While some conductors announce a Mahler project that will embrace all the symphonies in chronological order, others start with the most popular or the…

Brilliant and vigourous Daniele Rustioni at the New Generation Festival in Florence

A symphonic concert, indeed, but somehow related to the world of opera, since the programme began with the overture of Le nozze di Figaro,…

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Hamlet by Frank Castorf : in our ruins

    Contexts At the heart of this production is the personality of Heiner Müller (who died in 1995), who, like Castorf, came from the former GDR…

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