Georg Nigl

In 2010, for the first time in its history, the Bolshoi Opera presented Alban Berg’s masterpiece Wozzeck conducted by Teodor Currentzis. Dmitri Cherniakov’s aim with this bold, sensitive transposition was “to highlight the hidden sorrows of a late twentieth-century man dwelling in a megalopolis.”

The plot of Die Fledermaus is woven around a ball given by Prince Orlofsky.

The Wiener Philharmoniker mounts, and Andrea Breth stages, this 2007 production of Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, starring Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Anna Samuil and Renée Morloc. The Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor lends added musical accompaniment, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim.

Le prince Tamino est chargé par la Reine de la nuit de libérer sa fille, Pamina, que le grand prêtre Sarastro retient captive. Accompagné par Papageno, un oiseleur farceur, Tamino entreprend un long périple semé d’épreuves pour délivrer la belle et conquérir son cœur. Au fil de sa quête, il découvre que la Reine de la nuit cherche en réalité à se venger de Sarastro… Dans cette production-événement, coup d'envoi de la saison 2018-2019 du Théâtre royal de la Monnaie, le plasticien et metteur en scène italien Romeo Castellucci s'empare du chef-d'œuvre lyrique de Mozart. Dans une mise en scène à l'esthétisme épuré, où le noir et le blanc se télescopent, où d'énigmatiques décontamineurs côtoient de délicats marquis et marquises, il en livre une version d'une surprenante audace. Une Flûte enchantée toute personnelle et férocement contemporaine.

Rinaldo Alessandrini, one of the most eminent baroque and pre-baroque music specialist, conducts Monteverdi's Orfeo, performed by singers who have been working with the Maestro for many years, and who now play in the middle of Robert Wilson's fairy sets...

The whole production is less that an hour in length, with a cast of just four singers plus a child who walks on to speak a few words; it's effectively a "chamber opera" in length but considerably larger in musical ambition, not a score you'll go home whistling, rather one that will absorb all the attention you can give it and then compel you to hear it again. For music of such complexity and intensity, the brevity of this opera is just right; you could take it as five hours of Verdi or Wagner concentrated and crystalized in one hour of Schoenberg.

Barrie Kosky gives the “operetta of all operettas” a new look and devotes himself to its morbid side. The setting is Vienna, city of the golden operetta era, where Die Fledermaus premiered at the Theater an der Wien in 1874. The bat's revenge becomes a nightmare, and not just for Gabriel von Eisenstein. A society, an entire city dances towards the abyss. To take revenge on his friend Eisenstein, Dr. Falke, alias Die Fledermaus, stages a game of mistaken identity at Count Orlofsky's house. A marquis and a chevalier, a countess and budding artists meet there for a raucous party. Glasses clink, relationships are shaken, people love, lie and dance. The party lasts as long as it lasts, true to the motto: “Happy is he who forgets...”.

An opera in English by French composer Pascal Dusapin, inspired by Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.