Austria Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Alexander Soddy (conductor). Vienna State Opera, 3.4.2024. (CR)
Serebrennikov’s uncomfortably stimulating Vienna Parsifal has a searing logic
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A consistently ominous atmosphere is wonderfully sustained in Vienna State Opera’s Simon Boccanegra
Austria Verdi, Simon Boccanegra: Soloists, Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Vienna State Opera, Vienna, 6.4.2024. (CR)
A new scenario for Salieri’s Kublai Khan offers slapstick fun and spectacle in Vienna
Austria Salieri, Kublai Khan: Soloists, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset (conductor). MuseumsQuartier, Halle E, Vienna, 5.4.2024. (CR)
Sir David Pountney’s Guillaume Tell still hits the target in Vienna
Austria Rossini, Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Bertrand de Billy (conductor). Transmitted live (directed by Dominic Zepczynski) from the Vienna State Opera, 16.3.2024. (JPr)
An excellent 2023 cast puts the fizz back into Vienna State Opera’s venerable Die Fledermaus
Austria Johann Strauss II, Die Fledermaus: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Simone Young (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Jakob Pitzer) from the Vienna State Opera, 31.12.2023. (JPr)
Netrebko and Guerrero impress in an eye-watering revival of Carsen’s Vienna Manon Lescaut
Austria Puccini, Manon Lescaut: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Jader Bignamini (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Anna Gettel) from Vienna State Opera on 8.11.2023. (JPr)
After four decades Il trittico returns to Vienna State Opera in a new staging by Tatjana Gürbaca
Austria Puccini, Il trittico: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Jakob Pitzer) from the Vienna State Opera, 7.10.2023. (JPr)
Vienna State Ballet’s season opener Don Quixote revival does Rudolf Nureyev proud
Austria Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote: Dancers of Vienna State Ballet, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Robert Reimer (conductor). Transmitted live (directed by Balázs Delbó) from the Vienna State Opera, 16.9.2023. (JPr)
