Tristan und Isolde at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which premiered on November 1, 2025, is not entirely new since it is a coproduction with the Grand Théâtre of Geneva and was premiered there in September 2024. Reviews of that premiere were mixed, especially about the production. This reviewer holds that the Berlin production by director Michael Thalheimer is very finely crafted, with the help of an extraordinary[...]
Katharina Wagner’s new production of Lohengrin that premiered on March 17 in Barcelona upends the story of the swan knight in shining armor from distant land to rescue an innocent […]