| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 26-Feb-2013 Theater an der Wien | Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: Rossini rarities in rare quality at the Theater an der Wien |
 In times where musical luxury is sometimes associated with having a pop star perform a short “Happy Birthday” and a handful of songs in a private performance – and for a usually undisclosed (and indecent) fee, having a whole piece of music composed for an occasion, or organising a private performance by a famous orchestra, is almost unimaginable.Read full review... | |
| 5-Jul-2012 Théâtre de l'Archevêché | Festival d’Aix-en-Provence opens with new Figaro |
 The 2012 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence began its four-week feast of opera and music with Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro—and could there be better a way?Read full review... | |
| 2-Apr-2012 Theater an der Wien | Strong storytelling in the Theater an der Wien’s Tales of Hoffmann |
 Director William Friedkin doesn’t put a dramaturgical foot wrong in his Theater an der Wien production of The Tales of Hoffmann and yet doesn’t challenge, or even engage with, any of the opera’s Romantic positions. Did the notion that serious artists aren’t entitled to live life, for instance, ever have much currency outside of the 19th-century?Read full review... | |
| 20-Dec-2011 Theater an der Wien | Music is the food of thought in L'Orfeo at the Theater an der Wien |
 and John Mark Ainsley (Orfeo) in LOrfeo; photo by Monika Rittershaus.jpg) The last production I saw of L’Orfeo explored the idea of music as a manipulative force, suggesting disturbing consequences to the docility it can engender. Director Claus Guth is less concerned with Orfeo the musician, and makes minimal acknowledgement of the work’s pastoral and mythic elements. He focuses instead on the consequences of Orfeo’s union with Euridice, suggesting that it is so powerful that their individuality has been subject to irreversible change.Read full review... | |
