Don Giovanni himself, with his top hat and black cloak, cut an undeniably sinister figure and, for a brief moment at the beginning, one wondered if the Victorian trappings of the sets were going to be used to take the story in a Jack the Ripper direction

The new production at Santa Fe Opera, directed by Bruno Ravella, managed to capture much of the opera’s fine emotional balance, but was perhaps even more notable for the quality of its musical performances, especially the Marschallin of Rachel Willis-Sørensen and the taut musical direction of Karina Canellakis

Tobias Kratzer’s new production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin did little to dispel the unpleasantness behind Intermezzo’s ostensible comedy

Sonia de Munck, que había estado soberbia como actriz en 'Ein Lichtstrahl', alcanzó en 'Pierrot lunaire' la excelencia performativa como actriz / cantante.

With a first-rate cast and the transcendent refinement of Christian Thielemann’s musical direction, the new Bösch's production offered a fittingly grand tribute to Strauss and von Hofmannsthal’s greatest achievement

No se le puede negar al texto añadido las buenas intenciones, porque todos estamos en contra de la guerra, especialmente cuando hoy se escuchan tantos peligrosísmos rumores de sables.Pero no así, no con textos blandos metidos con calzador y amplificación sonora.

Fue una agradable sorpresa descubrir que aunque el programa se centraba principalmente en la canción gallega, combinaba siete autores gallegos con cuatro españoles y una gran figura universal, Pauline Viardot-García.

If the evening’s vocal and orchestral forces revealed occasional moments of sentimentality in the score, such moments were far outnumbered by passages of emotional candour and grandly wrought beauty