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Così fan tutte is more confused and confusing Mozart in Berlin

16/04/202216/04/2022 by Mark Berry

Germany Berlin Festtage [4] – Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus master: Martin Wright), Staatskapelle Berlin / Giuseppe Mentuccia (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 14.4.2022 (MB)

Vincent Huguet’s production of *Così fan tutte* (c) Matthias Baus

Manfred Honeck leads a thoughtful presentation of Mozart in Dresden

12/04/2022 by Mark Berry

Germany Mozart, Haydn, and Gregorian Chant: Nikola Hillebrand (soprano), Marie Henriette Reinhold (contralto), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor), Mikhail Timoshenko (bass), Ulrich Tukur (reciter), Dresden Chamber Choir (chorus director: Tobias Mäthger), Dresden Kreuzchor (chorus director: Karl Pohlandt), Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden / Manfred Honeck (conductor). Semperoper, Dresden, 11.4.2022 (MB)

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Così fan tutte is more confused and confusing Mozart in Berlin

Manfred Honeck leads a thoughtful presentation of Mozart in Dresden

Superb musicianship at odds with a dire production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Berlin Festtage

Masterly pianism from Igor Levit at Berlin Festtage

Peerless Mozart from Daniel Barenboim and the VPO

Superbly constructed and performed programme from François-Xavier Roth and the LSO

The Jerusalem Quartet bring a sense of discovery and achievement to Beethoven

Damrau, Kaufmann and Deutsch in a memorable evening of Schumann and Brahms