Reviewer's Rating L’incoronazione di Poppea Katherine Syer 22/07/2018Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, one of the first operas to open in the freshly renovated Staatsoper unter den Linden last...
Reviewer's Rating Ti Vedo, Ti Sento, Mi Perdo Katherine Syer 16/07/2018The life of Alessandro Stradella, the 17th-century composer whose colourful affairs paved the way to his contracted murder, inspired several...
Reviewer's Rating Macbeth Katherine Syer 24/06/2018Harry Kupfer’s new production of Macbeth at Berlin’s Staatsoper opens with a digital backdrop of a smoking landscape unsettled by...
Reviewer's Rating Written on Skin Katherine Syer 12/02/2018Disclaimer: the highly successful premiere production of George Benjamin’s opera Written on Skin (2012) is etched firmly in my memory....
Reviewer's Rating Wozzeck Katherine Syer 28/03/2017he chimera of the perfect family unit haunts Krzysztof Warlikowski’s production of Wozzeck. On the unusually broad canvas of DNO’s...
Reviewer's Rating Messa da Requiem Katherine Syer 01/01/2017ecent years have seen a growing number of oratorios, cantatas, and song cycles explored for their theatrical potential on stage,...
Reviewer's Rating Don Giovanni Katherine Syer 22/12/2016eith Warner’s strongly conceived production of Don Giovanni (in revival with assistance from Michael Moxham) remains a public success in...
Reviewer's Rating La Traviata – Remixed Katherine Syer 10/10/2016he story of a fatally ill prostitute, burned by the self-interest of others when she pursues real love, was uncommonly...
Reviewer's Rating Hamlet Katherine Syer 21/09/2016newly commissioned opera about Hamlet runs the risk of being overburdened by Shakespeare’s profound handling of the material and its...
