by Jens Winther | Oct 28, 2025 | Opera, Opera
CARMEN • LONDON ★★★★☆☆ REVIEW CARMEN LONDON: NAKED AND COLD AS ICE Calixto Bieto, the daring Spanish director and bad boy of opera, has stripped Carmen down to her garters in a minimalist set design in his London production for English National Opera (ENO), which is...
by Jens Winther | Sep 9, 2025 | Opera
THREE SISTERS • SALZBURG FESTSPIELE 2025 ★★★★★☆ Photo: Monika Rittershaus REVIEW THREE SISTERS: DESPERATE MODERNIST CHAOS OPERA HIGHLIGHT IN SALZBURG Three Sisters is a play by Chekhov, which Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös has adapted into a modernist chaos opera. In...
by Jens Winther | Sep 5, 2025 | Opera
MASTERSINGERS • BAYREUTH 2025 ★★★★☆☆ Photo: Enrico Nawrath REVIEW THE MASTERSINGERS: WAGNER – THE MUSICAL This year’s new production at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth is a spectacle of enormous proportions. The daring German director Matthias Davids has...
by Jens Winther | Jul 25, 2025 | Opera
DON GIOVANNI • AIX-EN-PROVENCE ★★★★★☆ Photo: Monika Rittershaus REVIEW DON GIOVANNI: SERIAL VIOLATOR IN A NEW ORIGINAL TWIST English director Robert Icke delivers a visually impressive, provocative staging of Don Giovanni at the festival in Aix-en-Provence, where...
by Jens Winther | Feb 13, 2025 | Opera, Opera
TWILIGHT OF THE GODS – LA MONNAIE BRUXELLES ★★★★★★ REVIEW GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG: A STUNNING FINALE IN BRUSSELS Director Pierre Audi and conductor Alain Altinoglu bring the Brussels Ring to a resounding close with a stunningly beautiful production of Götterdämmerung,...
by Jens Winther | Oct 30, 2024 | Opera, Opera
DAS RHEINGOLD • LA SCALA MILANO ★★★★☆☆ REVIEW DAS RHEINGOLD: LACK OF EUPHORIA AT LA SCALA There was a lack of euphoria at the premiere of Das Rheingold in the packed La Scala theatre in Milan. The sought-after, well-travelled Scottish director David McVicar’s...
