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Russia

Bolshoi and Met team up for first time

Fans of opera will be delighted to learn Moscow's Bolshoi theatre and New York's Metropolitan Opera are teaming up for the first time to stage three shows to be shown in both cities.

10/10/2017

Musica

Berlin Staatsoper shines with renewed splendour

Berlin’s Staatsoper on the historic Unter den Linden boulevard has reopened.

05/10/2017

Musica

Pinocchio reopens Brussels opera house after facelift

Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans and French playwright Joël Pommerat offer a captivating and dark adaptation of Carlo Collodi's legendary tale.

21/09/2017

Musica

Juan Diego Flórez captivates in Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia"

The renowned tenor takes on the part of Gennaro in Donizetti's tale of revenge.

07/09/2017

Musica

Kazakhstan hosts Plácido Domingo's famed opera contest

In 25 years, Plácido Domingo has made Operalia the world's premier opera competiton, which this year was held in Kazakhstan.

10/08/2017

Cult

Mozart has never been so modern

This year opera program of the Salzburg Festival starts with Mozart’s last opera La Clemenza di Tito, sung in Italian.

27/07/2017

Cult

Salzburg Festival: Modern-Day Mozart

A contemporary take on the Mozart operatic masterpiece is a star attraction at the annual summer festival

27/07/2017

Cult

Verdi rings around Amman as opera comes to Jordan

Jordan hosts first Arab opera festival

21/07/2017

Cult

Bizet's 'Carmen' floats at Bregenz

Outstanding staging of Bizet's 'Carmen'

19/07/2017

Musica

Ariodante: a Salzburg production as unsettling as it is moving

Cecilia Bartoli takes on the eponymous male role in Handel's opera.

13/07/2017

Musica

Jonas Kaufmann is Otello in Covent Garden

For the first time in thirty years London's Covent Garden opera house is putting on Verdi's Otello - and he's still white.

29/06/2017

Musica

Aldeburgh celebrates Britten's magical Dream

A magical new production of Benjamin Britten's masterpiece 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' opens the Aldeburgh Festival, celebrating the Golden Jubilee of his visionary Snape Maltings concert hall.

15/06/2017

Musica

The Met celebrates 50 years at the Lincoln Center

The Metropolitan Opera House recently celebrated its 50th season since moving to Lincoln Center in New York with a grand evening of performances.

18/05/2017

Musica

Back from the Baroque

For the first time in nearly 250 years, Alcione, Marin Marais' operatic masterpiece, makes a dazzling comeback in Paris at the Opéra Comique.

04/05/2017

Musica

Flórez revamps Werther

Forbidden love, wrongdoings and despair: Zurich Opera House ventures into late 19th-century French romanticism with Werther, by Jules Massenet.

06/04/2017

Musica

Villazon's Baroque Odyssey

The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland is one of the founding works of lyric art.

23/03/2017

Musica

Tannhäuser: a Wagner opera with a French accent

Not everyone is aware that “Tannhäuser”, one of Wagner’s masterpieces, characterized by eternal themes such as ‘redemption’ and carnal love versus spiritual love, also had a French…

09/03/2017

Musica

Offenbach revival sees "Fantasio" take the Paris stage

A work thought lost by Offenbach, "Fantasio" has been lovingly restored and performed for the first time onstage in Paris.

23/02/2017

Cult

Bolshoi Ballet stages Mieczysław Weinberg's opera 'The Idiot'

Moscow’s famous Bolshoi Ballet is staging ‘The Idiot’ which is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel.

15/02/2017

Musica

Magic in Vienna with Purcell's Fairy Queen

Under the baton of Christophe Rousset the Talens Lyriques delight the Theater an der Wien.

09/02/2017