War and peace in music (20)

Bellini's I Puritani

Francisco Negrín (stage director), Giuliano Carella (conductor) – With Mariola Cantarero (Elvira) and John Osborn (Lord Arturo Talbo) – Het Muziektheater

• The Amsterdam Music Theatre (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

Jesús Lopez Cobos, Giancarlo del Monaco – Violeta Urmana (Santuzza), María Bayo (Nedda) – Teatro Real Madrid

Adams' Doctor Atomic

Lawrence Renes, Peter Sellars – Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer) – De Nederlandse Opera

• De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Wagner's Lohengrin

Kent Nagano, Nikolaus Lehnhoff – Tom Fox (Friedrich von Telramund), Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin) – Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

• Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden, Germany)

Beethoven's Fidelio

Bernard Haitink, Katharina Thalbach – Krešimir Stražanac (Don Fernando) Lucio Gallo (Don Pizarro)...

• Zürich Opera House (Zurich, Switzerland)

Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito

Sylvain Cambreling, Ursel Hermann – Susan Graham (Sesto), Christoph Prégardien (Tito)

Handel's Giulio Cesare

David McVicar (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra)...

Wagner's Rienzi

Pinchas Steinberg, Jorge Lavelli – With Torsten Kerl (Rienzi) and Marika Schönberg (Irène) – Théâtre du Capitole

• Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse, France)

Verdi's Don Carlos

Antonio Pappano, Nicholas Hytner – Rolando Villazón (Don Carlos), Robert Lloyd (Carlos V), Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa) – Royal Opera House,...

• Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)

Handel's Tamerlano

Paul McCreesh, Graham Vick – Plácido Domingo (Bajazet), Jennifer Holloway (Irene), Sara Mingardo (Andronico) – Teatro Real Madrid

• Teatro Real de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

Romeo and Juliet by Nureyev, music by Prokofiev

Monique Loudières (Juliet), Manuel Legris (Romeo), Charles Jude (Tybalt), Lionel Delanoë (Mercutio) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

Purcell's Dido and Æneas

Deborah Warner (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Malena Ernman (Dido), Christopher Maltman (Aeneas)...

• Opéra-comique (Paris, France)

Giordano's Andrea Chénier

Lamberto Puggelli (stage director), Riccardo Chailly (conductor) – With José Carreras (Andrea Chénier), Eva Marton (Maddalena di Coigny)...

• Teatro alla Scala (Milan, Italy)

Verdi's Don Carlos

Luc Bondy (stage director), Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor) – With Roberto Alagna (Don Carlos), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigo)...

• Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris, France)

Puccini's Tosca

Nicolas Joel (stage director), Daniel Oren (conductor) – With Svetla Vassileva (Tosca), Gustavo Porta (Cavaradossi), Sergey Murzaev (Scarpia)...

• The Opera Festival (Masada, Israel)

Verdi's Luisa Miller

Jean-Claude Fall (stage director), Massimo Zanetti (conductor) – With Patrizia Ciofi (Luisa), Gregory Kunde (Rodolfo)...

Gounod's Romeo and Juliet

Charles Mackerras, Nicolas Joel – Roberto Alagna (Romeo), Leontina Vaduva (Juliet), François Le Roux (Mercutio) – Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

• Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)

Joyce DiDonato sings In War and Peace: Harmony through Music

With Il Pomo d'oro, under the direction of Maxim Emelyanychev

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence

George Benjamin (music), Martin Crimp (text) – With Stéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger)...

Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail

David McVicar (stage director), Robin Ticciati (conductor) – With Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte), Sally Matthews (Kostanze)...