An exciting cast digs their claws into a heady production of La Calisto at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées.
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.
Recency bias is in full swing here, but Glyndebourne’s first ever staging of Parsifal – and my first Parsifal – takes top prize for me.
Pénélope at the Bayerische Staatsoper’s summer festival spotlights the crossroads between the nostalgic and the progressive.
This July, Munich played host to hordes of football fans in town for the European Championship—and arguably the two finest working sopranos today.
Legrenzi married the quirky libretto to a score of transcendental beauty.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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