L’incoronazione di Poppea Katherine Syer 22/07/2018 Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, one of the first operas to open in the freshly renovated Staatsoper unter den Linden last winter, closes the s...
Ti Vedo, Ti Sento, Mi Perdo Katherine Syer 16/07/2018 The life of Alessandro Stradella, the 17th-century composer whose colourful affairs paved the way to his contracted murder, inspired several nineteent...
Macbeth Katherine Syer 24/06/2018 Harry Kupfer’s new production of Macbeth at Berlin’s Staatsoper opens with a digital backdrop of a smoking landscape unsettled by occasional explosion...
Written on Skin Katherine Syer 12/02/2018 Disclaimer: the highly successful premiere production of George Benjamin's opera Written on Skin (2012) is etched firmly in my memory. All the more st...
Wozzeck Katherine Syer 28/03/2017 The chimera of the perfect family unit haunts Krzysztof Warlikowski's production of Wozzeck. On the unusually broad canvas of DNO's stage, all of the ...
Messa da Requiem Katherine Syer 01/01/2017 Recent years have seen a growing number of oratorios, cantatas, and song cycles explored for their theatrical potential on stage, involving a range of...
Don Giovanni Katherine Syer 22/12/2016 Keith Warner's strongly conceived production of Don Giovanni (in revival with assistance from Michael Moxham) remains a public success in crowning ten...
La Traviata – Remixed Katherine Syer 10/10/2016 The story of a fatally ill prostitute, burned by the self-interest of others when she pursues real love, was uncommonly contemporary when Verdi’s La T...
Hamlet Katherine Syer 21/09/2016 A newly commissioned opera about Hamlet runs the risk of being overburdened by Shakespeare’s profound handling of the material and its weighty legacy....
