Auspicious start to the Kratzer and Wellber Hamburg tenure with Robert Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri

GermanyGermany Robert Schumann, Das Paradies und die Peri: Soloists, Hamburg State Opera Chorus, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor). Hamburg State Opera, 30.9.2025. (DM-D)

Vera-Lotte Boecker (Peri, centre front) and chorus of Hamburg State Opera © Monika Ritterhaus

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A beautiful Barrie Kosky production of The Cunning Little Vixen in Barcelona

SpainSpain Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Orfeó Catalá Children’s Chorus (director: Glòria Coma), Grand Teatre del Liceu Chorus (conductor: Pablo Assante) and Orchestra / Josep Pons (conductor). Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona, 29.9.2025. (JMI)

Elena Tsallagova (Little Vixen) © D. Ruano

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Vienna State Opera’s Tosca is almost as good as new in the production’s 665th outing

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor). Directed for the screen by Anna Gettel and broadcast from the Vienna State Opera on 27.9.2025. (JPr)

Jonathan Tetelman (Cavaradossi) and Elena Stikhina (Floria Tosca) © Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn

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Movingly engaging – if orgiastic – Oldenburg State Theatre’s La traviata

GermanyGermany Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus, Extra Chorus and Extras of Oldenburg State Theatre, Oldenburg State Orchestra / Carlo Goldstein (conductor). Oldenburg State Theatre, 27.9.2025. (DM-D)

Laura Pisani (Violetta Valéry) and Jason Kim (Alfredo Germont) © Stephan Walzl

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Mason Bate’s The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay soars in Bartlett Sher’s terrific Met production

United StatesUnited States Bates, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 21.9.2025. (RP)

Edward Nelson (Tracy Bacon) and Miles Mykkanen (Sam Clay) © Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera

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