BEST OF 2022: Mozart's Don Giovanni with Michael Volle, Elsa Dreisig, and Slávka Zámečníková

With Thomas Guggeis at the Staatsoper Berlin

Baroque music

Janáček's The Makropulos Case

Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director), Andrew Davis (conductor) – With Anja Silja (Emilia Marty), Kim Begley (Albert Gregor)...

Marvel at Satoshi Miyagi’s new staging of Mozart’s Mitridate, Re di Ponto

Starring Pene Pati in the title role at the Berlin State Opera!

Lully's Atys

Jean-Marie Villégier (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Bernard Richter (Atys), Emmanuelle de Negri (Sangaride), Paul Agnew (Dieu du Sommeil)...

Massenet's Werther

Andrei Serban (stage director), Bertrand de Billy (conductor) — With Piotr Bezcała (Werther), Clemens Unterreiner (Albert), Gaëlle Arquez (Charlotte)...

Mozart's The Magic Flute

Robert Carsen (stage director), Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) – With Ana Durlovski, Dimitry Ivashchenko...

Verdi's I Masnadieri

David McVicar (stage director), Michele Mariotti (conductor) — With Lisette Oropesa (Amalia), Michele Pertusi (Massimiliano), Fabio Sartori (Carlo), Massimo Cavalletti (Francesco) ...

Busoni's Doktor Faust

Klaus Michael Gruber (stage director), Philippe Jordan (conductor) — With Thomas Hampson (Faust), Günther Groissböck (Wagner), Gregory Kunde (Mephistopheles), Reinaldo Macias (The Duke of Parma), Sandra Trattnigg (The Duchess of Parma)...

Strauss's Salomé at the Paris Opera

Elza van den Heever stuns in Lydia Steier's new production, conducted by Simone Young

Lully's Cadmus et Hermione

Benjamin Lazar (stage director), Vincent Dumestre (conductor) – With André Morsch (Cadmus), Claire Lefilliâtre (Hermione)...