Stefan Herheim’s tide of humanity reimagines Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in Berlin

GermanyGermany Wagner, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre: Soloists, actors, Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin / Sir Donald Runnicles (conductor). Filmed (directed by Götz Filenius) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in November 2021 and now available on Marquee TV. (JPr)

Deutsche Oper Berlin’s Das Rheingold © Bernd Uhlig

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Der Rosenkavalier at the Bayerisches Staatsoper: the end of an era or the beginning of a new one?

GermanyGermany R. Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra des Bayerisches Staatsoper / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor), Nationaltheater Munich, 11.5.2022 (ALL)

Marlis Petersen (Marschallin), Christof Fischesser (Ochs) and Samantha Hankey (‘Mariandel’) © Wilfried Hösl

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As the curtain fell on Opera Philadelphia’s Rigoletto, there were reasons to celebrate!

United StatesUnited States Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Opera Philadelphia Chorus and Orchestra / Corrado Rovaris (conductor). Opera Philadelphia, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 8.5.2022. (RP)

Wei Wu (Sparafucile), Kristen Choi (Maddalena) and Joshua Blue (Duke) © Dominic M. Mercier

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Fidelio revelations from Equilbey and Insula Orchestra as she rethinks the familiar and meets it anew

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven, Fidelio (concert staging): Soloists, accentus; Insula Orchestra / Laurence Equilbey (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 11.5.2022. (CC)

Sinéad Campbell-Wallace (Leonore) and Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Florestan) © Vincent Pontet

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All that glitters! Zeffirelli’s Turandot returns to the Met as thoughts turn to Ukraine

United StatesUnited States The Met: Live in HD – Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 7.5.2022. (JPr)

Front: Liudmyla Monastyrska (Turandot) and Yonghoon Lee (Calàf) (c) Ken Howard

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