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In Amsterdam, Tchaikovsky's extraordinary and highly political ‘The Maid of Orleans’ by Dmitri Tcherniakov

  The title ‘The Maid of Orleans’ sums up Jeanne's legend better than any other. She is first and foremost a “Maid”, and even though…

Rusalka in Stockholm : be beautiful and keep quiet

https://youtu.be/h1e_b3BKIp4 Trailer Contemporary staging does not particularly favour the fantastical. We can read or reread the review of Tcherniakov's 2024 production at the San Carlo with…

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…

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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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