Metropolitan Opera
La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera
World-building in the largest opera house on earth—and a Puccini farewell that hit closer to home than expected.
La Bohème
New York City Ballet
All Balanchine III at the New York City Ballet
Balanchine in New York, Berlin in the audience—and a reminder not to take any of it for granted.
Staatsoper Berlin
Die schweigsame Frau at Staatsoper Berlin
Between camp and complicity, this production plays with tropes it should interrogate—and ends up reinforcing the very norms it claims to question.
Komische Oper Berlin
La Bohème at Komische Oper Berlin
This refreshing staging dismantles well-worn BOHÈME clichés, peeling away layers like an onion to expose the opera’s essential human truths: gone are the picturesque Parisian rooftops, falling snow, and festive Christmas scenes.
Deutsche Oper Berlin
La Bohème at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Beyond its bohemian charm, the opera is a classically beautiful yet tragic tale of love, jealousy, betrayal, emotional turmoil, reconciliation, and death.