The English-language channel of OPER!, the international magazine for opera and music theatre, based in Berlin. You'll find our German version at @opermagazin.
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"L'incoronazione di Poppea" is a triumph for #MaayanLicht and the #MonteverdiFestival in Cremona. When Licht pronounces a death sentence, he does so with a jubilant relish for malice. monteverdifestivalcremona.it… 📷: Antonino Dimondo
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At the Würzburg Mozart Festival, #ChristopheRousset conducts a concert performance of "La clemenza di Tito". #LesTalensLyriques play so eloquently, the ensemble sings with such precision that the music alone carries the entire narrative. mozartfest.de/index.html
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#ChristofLoy makes his debut at Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela with Manuel Penella’s "El gato montés" and turns a Spanish cliché into the lyric revelation of the season.teatrodelazarzuela.inaem.gob… 📷: Elena del Real I Teatro de la Zarzuela
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#GeorgePetean - our current cover artist - sings Simon Boccanegra in Amsterdam with a soft yet incisively baritone, every note demonstrating why this is one of the noblest and most profoundly human roles of the Italian repertoire. operaballet.nl/en/dutch-nati… I 📷: Ben van Duin
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At Stuttgart State Opera, Puccini's #Turandot ends with - Wagner: "Isolde's Liebestod" promises a reunion of the lovers, at least in the afterlife. Idiosyncratic, for sure, but it works well and fits the flashy, dramatic staging. staatsoper-stuttgart.de/en/s… 📷: Martin Sigmund
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The Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, under the direction of Giuliano Carella, plays Rossini's #Tancredi as if it had never done anything else. Cláudia Ribas and Bianca Tognocchi sing in true bel canto style. Pity the staging never quite adds up. oper-frankfurt.de/en/season-…
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A short, snappy, and funny baroque opera: Gasparini's "L'avare" (based on Molière's "The Miser") at the #OpéraRoyal du Château de Versailles. Just four performers and twelve musicians with a running time of 90 minutes. Great: #EvaZaïcik and #VictorSicard. operaroyal-versailles.fr/en/…
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#AntoniaBembo? Probably not on most people's radar. Her "Ercole amante" has now been shown in a staged version possibly for the first time ever – at the @operadeparis. Fine cast around Julie Fuchs, Sandrine Piau, Deepa Johnny. I operadeparis.fr/en/season-25… I📷: Bernd Uhlig / OnP
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At #BühnenBern, we delve into the depths of Western drama with the world premiere of #SalvatoreSciarrino's #Agamennone, distilled from Aeschylus' "Oresteia". The score is challenging, but the brilliant cast - esp. #PatriciaWestley as Cassandra - delivers. buehnenbern.ch/spielplan/pro…
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#OldenburgStateTheatre presents #ManfredGurlitt's very rarely shown #Wozzeck: the happy-end is rather contrived, but the production is well-worth seeing both for its rarity and for baritone #ArthurBruce's great portrayal of the title part staatstheater.de/programm/mu…
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In its nonspecific setting, director Isabel Ostermann's #LaTraviata at #Gärtnerplatztheater Munich foregrounds the timelessness of Verdi's social critique. #SophiaTheodorides (Violetta) impresses with vocal authority and intelligent character development. gaertnerplatztheater.de/de/p…
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From small roles, #EricCutler has grown into a sought-after Wagnerian. In our interview, the tenor talks about stamina, Joan Sutherland as a birthday guest, and the pragmatism of Generation X: oper-magazin.de/menschen/int… (German, paywall) I📷: Simon Pauly
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Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" get lost in director #TiagoRodrigues' maze of placards at the Wiesbaden State Theatre's May Festival. Essentially a lot of park and bark, much of it very solid, though not entirely. Katleho Mokhoabane sings a particularly beautiful young sailor.
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#Orpheus at the #GluckFestivalthe, subtly directed by the 80-year-old Annegret Ritzel, who imbues the baroque stage splendor with intimate symbolic gestures. #ValerSabadus portrays Orpheus with fine nuance. gluck-festspiele.de/orpheus
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Director #VasilyBarkhatov at @TheaterWien delivers a technically accomplished and psychologically compelling staging of Verdi's #Stiffelio, unfortunately marred by Jérémie Rhorer's excessively loud conducting. theater-wien.at/en/events/se… 📷: Werner Kmetitsch
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Nabu...who? Music director #RiccardoChailly bids farewell to La Scala with #Nabucco under the opera's original name, #Nabucodonosor in a production that is lavishly staged and musically superb. oper-magazin.de/kritiken/auf… (German, paywall) 📷: Brescia e Amisano
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Remarkable double bill at @MFTheater Würzburg: Roman Hovenbitzer juxtaposes two musically starkly different peasant worlds, Winfried Zillig's 1932 one-act opera #Rosse (#Steeds) and Leoncavallo's #Pagliacci. The fusion succeeds thanks to the committed cast mainfrankentheater.de/en/sch…
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The @MetOpera New York presents another contemporary work, "El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego" by #GabrielaLenaFrank. And while by no means all the recent new pieces shown here succeeded, this one gives it a decent shot. metopera.org/season/2025-26-… Marty Sohl / Met Opera
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Tatjana Gürbaca's new #Barbiere at @staatsoperHH: fast-paced, yet especially in the ensemble scenes a bit tedious, with rhythmic movements mirroring the music. Conductor #OmerMeirWellber rushed through the score rather than bringing out its nuances. die-hamburgische-staatsoper.…
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For the American tenor #JonahHoskins, the top notes are not (just) a feat, but an expression of his identity: a conversation about ambition, technique, and the anxiety of hitting the highs. Find the interview here👉 oper-magazin.de/menschen/int… (German, paywall). 📷: Maximilian Probst
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