
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Werther (concertante) at Deutsche Oper Berlin
A stirring Werther finale doubled as farewell and protest, as Berlin’s mayor applauded opera amid massive cultural budget cuts.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
A stirring Werther finale doubled as farewell and protest, as Berlin’s mayor applauded opera amid massive cultural budget cuts.
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
A genre-defying, politically charged performance that reclaims and reframes American identity through music, imagery, and unapologetic cultural ownership.
Maxim Gorki Theater
A bold, stripped-back Carmen that reclaims, reframes, and reimagines—queer, critical, and culturally aware in all the ways opera should be today.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
A meditation on individual agency and love, caught and ground down between the machinery of faith and the weight of worldly power.
Dutch National Opera
A searing, harrowing, emotionally devastating production that turns Mussorgsky’s opera into a portrait of complicity, grief, and the cost of silence.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Power tilts, collapses, and reshapes in this searing production—a physical meditation on revolution, wealth, and who gets to fall.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
A surreal meditation on loss and memory, Lash lingers in the echo of a vanished presence—fractured voices, flickering images, and the intimate textures of a body learning to live again.
A bold, stripped-back Carmen that reclaims, reframes, and reimagines—queer, critical, and culturally aware in all the ways opera should be today.
A searing, harrowing, emotionally devastating production that turns Mussorgsky’s opera into a portrait of complicity, grief, and the cost of silence.
A surreal meditation on loss and memory, Lash lingers in the echo of a vanished presence—fractured voices, flickering images, and the intimate textures of a body learning to live again.
A hallucinatory journey through guilt, lust, and liberation—set in a liminal world where spirits linger, identities blur, and music becomes a final act of grace.
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Olivier Py’s production grapples with Empire and violence, but its chaotic staging at times drowns out Verdi’s emotional and musical clarity.
Sondra Radvanovsky’s Tosca is heartbreakingly human—playful, vulnerable, and losing her faith—breathing new soul into a timeless, tragic role.
A glitter-soaked, high-camp spectacle full of extravagant costumes, cheeky humor, and irresistible tunes—operetta at its most outrageous and entertaining.
An orchestral program moving from ghostly textures and whispered tones to richly woven Romantic drama, delivered with striking clarity and emotional depth.
A hallucinatory journey through guilt, lust, and liberation—set in a liminal world where spirits linger, identities blur, and music becomes a final act of grace.
A genre-blurring production where postmodern soundscapes, haunting choreography, and fragments of tradition collide in an unsettling, unforgettable winter journey.
A haunting, immersive Aida where memory eclipses reality and love unravels in silence—Verdi reimagined as an intimate, fractured contemporary drama.
Mahler’s Resurrection soared under Iván Fischer—an overwhelming, soul-stirring performance that left the Elbphilharmonie on its feet in awe.
A richly traditional production that opens into a sharp meditation on conformity, desire, and the cost of stepping outside of social norm.
A hypnotic fever dream of ritual, power, and collapse—where minimalist music, dazzling visuals, and mythic symbolism explore what happens when change is forced faster than a society can absorb.
In Tcherniakov’s haunting production, a decaying ritual unfolds in a ruined chapel. A lost outsider, a cursed woman, and a broken brotherhood navigate guilt, grace, and belief in this starkly intimate post-apocalyptic vision.
A haunting, sand-filled descent into grief, obsession, and the weight of inherited trauma—where even wealth or pearls of wisdom won’t save you from being slowly pulled under.