Reviewer's Rating L’incoronazione di Poppea Katherine Syer 22/07/2018 2822Monteverdi’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 16/07/2018 2882The 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 24/06/2018 3419Harry 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 12/02/2018 2656Disclaimer: 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 28/03/2017 4101he 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 01/01/2017 5967ecent 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 22/12/2016 3110eith 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 10/10/2016 3342he 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 21/09/2016 3659newly commissioned opera about Hamlet runs the risk of being overburdened by Shakespeare’s profound handling of the material and its...
