Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience as a director and, apart from so...
“So quiet, so beautiful around here… and I must die”, these are the last words that Káťa pronounces before throwing herself into the river Volga. She...
For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte collaborating with...
Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasionally days after the experien...
The acclaimed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who has been the artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival since 2012, has presented this year...
The current production of Così fan Tutte at the 2020 Salzburg festival was already staged last year with some cuts to the original score in order to c...
Cutting edge and provocative, this year’s new production of Cherubini’s Médée performed at Salzburg Festspiele is notable for the originality of the d...
This famous opera by Handel, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 April 1735, has always been one of the favourites of the baroq...
