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[...]

Hermann Grampp
May 2024

Parsifal: A Good Friday Play. To perform Parsifal on Easter has been and still is a tradition in many an opera house in Germany. Whereas the Bavarian State Opera in […]