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Opera Quartet

The Opera Quartet for the 2026/27 Season (in German only). Play along with this season’s singers, conductors, and directors. Connect[…]

Ultimately, it is people who must take the world – and their survival within and alongside it – into their[…]

Mr H.’s campaign of revenge is now entering its fifth year: Dmitri Tcherniakov’s consistently ‘ship-free’ interpretation of *The Flying Dutchman*[…]

After *Die Walküre*, the AI is booed. It would be amusing if it could react to something like that too,[…]

AI is dead, long live humanity: Following *Rheingold*, the initial reaction is one of disappointment, though for many this may[…]

Alexandra Szemerédy and Magdolna Parditka present a cleverly conceived *Rienzi*, which ultimately runs out of steam due to the director’s[…]

Bel canto fascism at the Lindenoper: in Berlin, Vasily Barkhatov presents a “Norma” set against a backdrop of Italian pottery[…]

106 years after its original premiere, the State Opera in Hanover is staging Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s ‚Die tote Stadt‘ for[…]

Of love and power at the World Tree: Sláva Daubnerová portrays the journey from beginning to end, from Alpha to[…]

Diva: Kirill Serebrennikov and Yuri Possokhov are staging their production – banned from Moscow – about the star dancer Rudolf[…]