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

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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Richard Strauss’s Die ägyptische Helena emerges from the shadows in a lavish but uneven Bard revival

United StatesUnited States Bard Summerscape – Richard Strauss, Die ägyptische Helena: Soloists, The Bard Festival Chorale, The American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein (conductor). Fischer Center at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, 24.7.2026. (RP)

HailJohn Matthew Myers (Menelaus) © Maria Baranova

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Thoughtfully beautiful staging of La bohème in Krefeld

GermanyGermany Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Children’s chorus and Chorus of Theater Krefeld Mönchengladbach. Niederrheinische Sinfoniker / Mihkel Kütson (conductor). Theater Krefeld, 19.7.2026. (DM-D)

[l-r] Rafael Bruck, Jeconiah Retulla, Sophie Witte, Sofia Poulopoulou, Woongyi Lee, Matthias Wippich in the final scene © Matthias Stutte

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Kartalov’s Cav & Pag proves a stunning triumph in Sofia’s Opera on the Square festival

BulgariaBulgaria Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana & Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci: Soloists, Children’s Choir of Bulgaria Radio, Chorus and Orchestra of Sofia Opera / Daniel Oren (conductor). Opera on the Square, Sofia, 15.7.2026. (GT)

Plamen Kartalov’s Opera of the Square Pagliacci

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