Reviewer’s Rating Trojan Women Ben Reiss 11/08/2023During the all-too-frequent outbreaks of global conflict during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Euripides’ The Trojan Women has been a...
Reviewer's rating L’Orfeo Opéra-marionnettes Josi Steinfeld 22/04/2023This sole Monaco performance was unique as it was performed entirely by puppets from the renowned Carlo Colla puppet theatre....
Reviewer's rating Alcina Josi Steinfeld 28/02/2023Monte Carlo Opera has a new, and for the first time, female artistic director, the Queen of Coloratura, Cecilia Bartoli. With...
Reviewer's rating An Untitled Love Ben Reiss 24/08/2022The subject of choreographer Kyle Abraham’s new work is clear from the title. Although the dance celebrates the extraordinariness and...
Reviewer's rating Aida Alessandro Zummo 17/08/2022Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience...
Reviewer's rating Káťa Kabanová Salzburg Festival 2022 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2022“So quiet, so beautiful around here… and I must die”, these are the last words that Káťa pronounces before throwing...
Reviewer's rating Die Zauberflöte Salzburger Festspiele 2022 Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte...
Reviewer's rating Il Barbiere di Siviglia Salzburger Festspiele Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasionally...
Reviewer's rating One Song Thibault Elie 26/07/2022Few shows have ever sparked the audience of the Festival d’Avignon so passionately. Miet Warlop, a 44-year-old Belgian artist, and...
Vanishing Point’s INTERIORS; a little overwintered… Tim Hochstrasser 05/02/2022Vanishing Point’s INTERIORS is a co-production inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck’s play of the same name. Note, “inspired”; the show itself...
