Tcherniakov’s Der fliegende Holländer at Bayreuth was – and is – for here and now

GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2023 [2] – Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Oksana Lyniv (conductor). Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 14.8.2023. (MB)

(l-r) Michael Volle (Dutchman), Nadine Weissmann (Mary), Georg Zeppenfeld (Daland), Elisabeth Teige (Senta) © Enrico Nawrath

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Verdi’s Macbeth proves infertile ground for Krzysztof Warlikowski at the Salzburg Festival

AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2023 [2] – Verdi, Macbeth: Soloists, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Performance of 29.7.2023 (directed by Henning Kasten) and available until 27.10.2023 on ARTE Concert. (JPr)

Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Macbeth Act II, Scene 3 © Bernd Uhlig

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Sofia Opera’s The Flying Dutchman brings the Wagner Festival to a triumphantly spectacular climax

BulgariaBulgaria Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Sofia Opera and Ballet / Rosen Gergov (conductor), Pancharevo Lake, 29.7.2023 and 30.7.2023. (GT)

Sofia Opera’s Der fliegende Holländer (first evening)

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Tudor passions reign in Bard SummerScape’s grand production of Saint-Saëns’s Henri VIII

United StatesUnited States Saint-Saëns, Henri VIII: Soloists, Dancers, Bard Festival Chorale, American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein (conductor). Fischer Center at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 30.7.2023. (RP)

Alfred Walker (Henri VIII) and Amanda Woodbury (Catherine d’Aragon) © Stephanie Berger

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The revival of Plamen Kartaloff’s Tristan und Isolde is another triumph for the Sofia Opera Company

BulgariaBulgaria Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Dancers, Chorus and Orchestra of Sofia Opera and Ballet / Constantin Trinks (conductor). Sofia Opera and Ballet Theatre, 23.7.2023. (GT)

Sofia Opera and Ballet Theatre’s Tristan und Isolde (Act II)

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