Broadcasts and Film

Currentzis, Grigorian and Tetelman overcome Carrizo’s choreographic oddities in Salzburg’s Carmen

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2026 [1] – Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Utopia Choir (chorus master: Vitaly Polonsky), Salzburg Bach Choir (chorus master: Michael Schneider), Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor (chorus masters: Wolfgang Götz, Regina Sgier), Utopia Orchestra / Teodor Currentzis (conductor). Filmed (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, on 8.8.2026 and streamed on STAGE+ on 9.8.2026. (JPr)

Eurudike De Beul (Don José’s Mother), Jonathan Tetelman (Don José) and Kristina Mkhitaryan (Micaëla) © SF/Thomas Aurin

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Rienzi marches up Bayreuth’s Green Hill: political corruption and a hidden family secret blights lives

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2026 [3] – Wagner, Rienzi: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra od the Bayreuth Festival / Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor). Livestreamed on STAGE+ (directed by Michael Beyer) from the Bayreuth Fespielehaus, 26.7.2026. (JPr)

Rienzi first scene © BF/Enrico Nawrath

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A review of NT’s compelling, if thought-provoking, Les Liaisons Dangereuses in cinemas from 25 June

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom NTLive’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses (by Christopher Hampton based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos): Filmed (directed by Ollie Gardner) during its run at the Lyttelton Theatre at London’s Royal National Theatre and now in cinemas from 25 June. (JPr) ****

Lesley Manville (Marquise de Merteuil) and Aidan Turner  (Vicomte de Valmont) © Sarah Lee

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Vocal excellence from Luca Salsi and Anna Netrebko in a strike-hit La Scala performance of a new Nabucco

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ItalyItaly Verdi, Nabucodonosor (Nabucco): Soloists, Teatro alla Scala Chorus and Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Ella Gallieni) from Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 29.5.2026. (JPr)

Anna Netrebko (Abigaille) © Bresia e Amisano/Teatro alla Scala

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Gatti, Orfeó Català, Staatskapelle Dresden and four stellar soloists perform a Verdi Requiem for the ages

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SpainSpain Verdi, Requiem: Eleonora Buratto (soprano), Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Benjamin Bernheim (tenor), Riccardo Zanellato (bass), Orfeó Català (chorus director: Xavier Puig), Staatskapelle Dresden / Daniele Gatti (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Marc Pasteau) on medici.tv from the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, 19.5.2026. (JPr)

Soprano Eleonora Buratto and mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča

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Lithuanian Asmik Grigorian stars with Russians and Ukrainians in the Met’s superbly sung Eugene Onegin

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United StatesUnited States The Met: Live in HD – Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Timur Zangiev (conductor). The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast 3.5.2026 (directed by Gary Halvorson) and seen at the Everyman Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 5.5.2026. (JPr)

Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Prince Gremin), Asmik Grigorian (Tatiana) and Iurii Samoilov (Eugene Onegin) © Evan Zimmerman/The Met

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Tomasz Konieczny is a very impressive Dutchman in Vienna’s shipbound Der fliegende Holländer

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AustriaAustria Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Bertrand de Billy (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Anna Gallieni) from Vienna State Opera, 3.5.2026. (JPr)

Tomasz Konieczny (Dutchman) and Erica Eloff (Senta)  © WS/Michael Pöhn

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Tschernischova’s Vienna Giselle is a very familiar one, yet superbly danced in its latest revival

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AustriaAustria Elena Tschernischova’s Giselle: Dancers of Vienna State Ballet, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Luciano Di Martino (conductor). Broadcast live from the Vienna State Opera (directed by Anna Gettel), 26.4.2026. (JPr)

Laura Fernandez Gromova (Giselle) and António Casalinho (Count Albrecht)

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