11.03.2020

Within 48 hours after attending Olivier Py’s invigorating production of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s five-act opera, Le Prophète, I was back at...

09.03.2020

I originally saw Olivier Py’s production of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s epic five-act opera, Le Prophète, at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2017 and...

11.09.2016

Berlin-based, avant-garde, theatre director, Frank Castorf, arrived on the Green Hill in 2013 making his Bayreuth début with this Ring cycle which...

12.09.2016

This production of Tristan und Isolde by Katharina Wagner first saw the light of day at last year’s festival immediately finding success with the...

10.09.2016

Specifically written for the Festspielhaus, Parsifal became Wagner’s final and farewell work to the world completed in January 1882 and first seen...

03.07.2017

Tickets sold out days before, the event was overshadowed by the unsettling incident took place in Manchester the night before.

28.05.2017

Three major Italian opera houses, in Milan, Genoa and Florence, have staged Verdi’s Don Carlo this year and of the three it was the Teatro Carlo...

01.07.2016

Puccini's opera Tosca at Vienna State Opera conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos Tosca’s 587th performance under the direction of Margarethe...

01.07.2016

Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale at Vienna State Opera conducted by Evelino Pidò Gaetano Donizetti’s humorous opera Don Pasquale, with...

01.07.2016

Janáček’s opera Jenůfa at Vienna State Opera conducted by Ingo Metzmacher It was exciting for me, as a Pountney enthusiast, to watch...

01.07.2016

Joyce DiDonato recital at Vienna State Opera Opera world’s universally famous American mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato’s recital, which she...

23.11.2015

Gaetano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena opera was written first among the three operas called “Tudor Queens” written by the composer (The other...

06.05.2015

I know, I want the impossible by saying this. However, what are the things that 74 years old Domingo succeeded at the stage, if they are not making the...

05.05.2015

It is natural that Britten's Billy Budd should appeal to audiences of a great sea port like Genoa and the production seen on April 19th was actually the se

14.04.2015

The French Mezzo-Soprano and narrator Dominique Hoff has been organising the narrative concerts since 2006. Schumann was the first composer of this...

01.03.2015

Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s “Die Soldaten”, written in 1965 is a brutal shock opera. Günter Wand and then Wolfgang Sawallisch were...

01.03.2015

The libretto was written by Alexander Preis and the composer. It was first performed on 24 January 1934 at the Leningrad Maly Operny. Shostakovich...

01.03.2015

Los Angeles Philharmonic's semi-staged production of the Mozart-Da Ponte opera "Così fan tutte" at the Walt Disney Concert Hall was amazing.

01.03.2015

In 1998 San Francisco Opera commissioned an opera to André Previn and he wrote this piece inspired to Tennessee Williams play and Elia Kazan's

01.03.2015

Massenet's "Thaïs" arrives in Los Angeles Opera for the first  time, with superstar Placido Domingo as baritonal cenobite monk...