Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

A vague Bayreuth Lohengrin production but it is unlikely the music could sound better

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2025 [2] – Wagner, Lohengrin: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Christian Thielemann (conductor). Bayreuther Festspielhaus, 9.8.2025. (DM-D)

Lohengrin Act I: Olafur Sigurdarson (Friedrich von Telramund) and Miina-Liisa Värelä (Ortrud) © Bayreuther Festspiele/Enrico Nawrath

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Oldenburg’s The Cunning Little Vixen is an excellent ensemble effort

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GermanyGermany Janáĉek, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Chorus, Extra chorus, and Youth and Children’s chorus of Oldenburg State Theatre, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester / Vito Cristofaro (conductor). Oldenburg State Theatre, 2.7.2025. (DM-D)

Arthur Bruce (Forester), Paul Brady (Harashta), Seumas Begg (Schoolmaster), Seungweon Lee (Parson) and Seung Jin Park (Innkeeper) © Stephan Walzl

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Witty production enhances beautiful singing in Hamburg’s Le nozze di Figaro revival

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GermanyGermany Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists and Chorus of the Staatsoper Hamburg. Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg / Nicholas Carter (conductor). Staatsoper Hamburg, 29.6.2025. (DM-D)

Hamburg State Opera’s Le nozze di Figaro (2015) © Karl Forster

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The Cunning Little Vixen in Münster – musically convincing but a production which fails to coalesce

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GermanyGermany Janáĉek, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Chorus and Extra chorus of Theater Münster, Children’s chorus of Gymnasium Paulinum. Münster Sinfonieorchester / Golo Berg (conductor). Theater Münster, 28.6.2025. (DM-D)

Wioletta Hebrowska (Fox and Adriana Kučerová (Vixen) © Bettina Stöss

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Hamburg’s Così fan tutte revival is exuberant fun

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GermanyGermany Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists and Chorus of Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra / Alexander Joel (conductor). Hamburg State Opera, 22.6.2025. (DM-D)

Hamburg State Opera’s Così fan tutte (2018 cast) – [l-r] Dorabella, Despina, Guglielmo, Ferrando, Don Alfonso and Fiordiligi © Hans Jörg Michel

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Kent Nagano’s superb Tristan und Isolde crowns his last appearance as Hamburg’s General Music Director

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GermanyGermany Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists and Chorus of Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano (conductor). Hamburg, 15.6.2025. (DM-D)

Hamburg State Opera’s Tristan und Isolde Act III (2005) © Brinkhoff/Mögenburg

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