| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 9-Mar-2013 Staatsoper at Schiller Theater | The progress of a rake in Berlin: Krzysztof Warlikowski's production with the Staatsoper |
 Ruth Walz.jpg) It’s not often that operas in English get performed in Germany, and so I was somewhat surprised to see such a large and important company as the Berliner Staatsoper taking on Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. This work is often regarded as problematic, because of its bizarre storyline and neo-classical style, and so it was with excitement, but also some trepidation, that I went to Berlin’s Schiller Theater to review the opera.
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| 17-Sep-2011 La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall | Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques light up a powerful Médée |
 Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Scorned womanhood has no better archetype than Euripides's Medea. And you're unlikely to see a more powerful or affecting Medea than Nadja Michael's performance in Cherubini's opera Médée, in the first production of the new season at La Monnaie in Brussels (De Munt, if you're a Flemish speaker.)
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