La fiamma è bella! La fiamma è bella!

A new recording of La fiamma from Deutsche Oper Berlin sets Respighi’s score ablaze.

Sing out, <em>Louise</em> Sing out, <em>Louise</em>

Christof Loy‘s Louise in Aix-en-Provence scratches at the urban– and operatic– unconscious

The Aix factor The Aix factor

This summer’s festival, taking place amid record high temperatures and in the wake of its artistic director, Pierre Audi, featured a disquietingly zeigeisty focus on sexual violence.

I’m never gonna dance again I’m never gonna dance again

A starry cast is hampered by Christof Loy‘s dour production of Rusalka in Barcelona

Three ages of woman Three ages of woman

Asmik Grigorian’s scorching turn in Il trittico in Paris has Nigel Wilkinson wondering, ‘what is it that makes Americans so weepy?’