Richard Wagner’s operas of redemption repeatedly invite new interpretations. Joana Mallwitz engaged intensively with the composer’s work during her tenure as General Music Director in Nuremberg. Johannes Erath, a director and musician, will stage…

Madrid's world-renowned Teatro Real presents a new Christof Loy production of Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky’s lyric opera based on Pushkin’s eponymous novel. The opera follows the story of a self-centered hero who dismisses love and accepts a duel with…

Glyndebourne's first-ever staging of The Merry Widow impresses visually, with Gary McCann's opulent Hollywood-inspired design and Carrie-Anne Ingrouille's witty, athletic choreography. Director Cal McCrystal brings his signature physical comedy to…

Ingmar Bergman’s semi-autobiographical film "Fanny och Alexander" (1982) comes to life on the opera stage, in a creation by composer Mikael Karlsson and librettist Royce Vavrek. Stage director is Ivo van Hove. A grandiose family chronicle demands…

Director Christof Loy continues his series of opulent operas from the first third of the 20th century at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In “La fiamma”, imposing choruses and colossal tableaux accompany a story about intrigues, power play and an affair…

Prior to the Nazi invasion of 1939, the successful Jewish Czech businessman Emil Freund spent years building a magnificent art collection of impressionist, modernist and abstract paintings. Here we imagine an intimate soirée in his Prague apartment…

On the island of Ceylon, two pearl fishermen and childhood friends are torn apart by their love for the same woman, the young priestess Leïla. In this opera, which marks his debut, Bizet delivers luminous, tender music with a subtle Oriental flavour…

Richard Strauss’s Elektra was the sensation that ushered in modernity by at the same time popularizing it. Heroes on the verge of madness, just what the audience loves! The world comes tumbling down upon us, specifically here: the Straussian…

Revenge is served blazing hot in Semele, Handel’s sexiest and most scandalous oratorio. The 2023 Festival presents Glyndebourne’s first ever production, directed by Olivier Award nominee Adele Thomas and conducted by baroque music specialist Václav…

At her wedding reception, the beautiful but depressed Justine spots a red star in the sky. It is the planet Melancholia, which is on a collision course with Earth. The bridegroom Michael tries to calm her down with his love, her mother Gaby poisons…