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Many virtues to the Deutsche Oper’s new production of Arabella

03/04/202303/04/2023 by Mark Berry

Germany R. Strauss, Arabella: Soloists, Opera-ballet and actors of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Jeremy Bines), Tobias Kratzer (director), Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin / Dirk Kaftan (conductor). Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 1.4.2023. (MB)

Russell Braun (Mandryka) in Richard Strauss’s Arabella, directed by Tobias Kratzer and premiered 18 March 2023 at Deutsche Oper Berlin © Thomas Aurin

Strong musical performances, but a strangely inert new production of Idomeneo

01/04/202331/03/2023 by Mark Berry

Germany Mozart, Idomeneo: Soloists, Movement Group, Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright), Staatskapelle Berlin / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 30.3.2023. (MB)

Berlin State Opera’s *Idomeneo* (c) Bernd Uhlig

The Dead City: ENO’s justly ambitious, laudable Korngold project

29/03/2023 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Korngold, The Dead City (Die tote Stadt): Soloists, Members of the Finchley Children’s Music Group (chorus director: Grace Rossiter), Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera / Kirill Karabits (conductor). London Coliseum, 25.3.2023. (MB)

ENO’s *The Dead City*: Sarah Connolly (Brigitta), Rolf Romei (Paul), Audun Iversen (Franz) © Helen Murray

Mahler’s vision of the Beethoven Ninth excitingly revealed by Vasily Petrenko and the RPO

25/03/202324/03/2023 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Beethoven and Mahler: Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass-baritone), The Bach Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 22.3.2023. (MB)

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Many virtues to the Deutsche Oper’s new production of Arabella

Strong musical performances, but a strangely inert new production of Idomeneo

The Dead City: ENO’s justly ambitious, laudable Korngold project

Mahler’s vision of the Beethoven Ninth excitingly revealed by Vasily Petrenko and the RPO

A life-affirming Figaro from Royal Academy Opera

Musical comradeship produces a triumphant account of El Cimarrón at Wigmore Hall

Andrei Serban’s Covent Garden Turandot gets an often intriguing and absorbing last hurrah

Hugely impressive Queen Elizabeth Hall recital by Alexandre Kantorow