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Julius Caesar in Egypt (Giulio Cesare In Egitto)

Giulio Cesare is among Handel’s top 10 operas. Cleopatra was composed for soprano Francesca Cuzzoni, Cesare for superstar castrato Senesino,...

Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience...

“So quiet, so beautiful around here… and I must die”, these are the last words that Káťa pronounces before throwing...

For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte...

Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasionally...

The acclaimed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who has been the artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival since 2012, has presented...

The current production of Così fan Tutte at the 2020 Salzburg festival was already staged last year with some cuts...

Cutting edge and provocative, this year’s new production of Cherubini’s Médée performed at Salzburg Festspiele is notable for the originality...

This famous opera by Handel, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 April 1735, has always been...

It is always exciting to learn what directors may see in what some call “the opera of operas”. Staging Mozart`s “Don Giovanni” is a huge challenge...