Robert Carsen

It was not until "Jenufa" that Leoš Janácek made a name for himself asa composer for music theatre. Janácek’s third opera is set in...

When, in 1900, Giacomo Puccini attended David Belasco’s play "Madame Butterfly" in London, he found it to be ideal material for an opera. Although...

Janácek 'animal opera' makes a connection of intimate images andthoughts of death and rebirth, about old age and spring. The centralfigure is a little...

Puccini's "La Bohème" remains an unrivaled evocation of the ParisQuartier Latin en artistic ideals clashing with hard reality. This special mix of humor and...

With this La Fanciulla del West Flanders Opera adds a new chapter toit's Puccinicycle which was organised with conductor Silvio Varviso anddirector Robert Carsen....

The heroïcal epos "Orlando Furioso" by Ariosto, in which the maincharacter goes down because of his love for the sorceress Angelica,inspired Händel to write...

Like "Jenufa", "Kát’a Kabanová" is set in a small and stiflingcommunity that denies its members most forms of self-fulfilment. Kát’awants to escape from her...

With this third opera of his, Leoš Janáček made his breakthrough as composer for the music theatre. The story of Jenůfa...

Richard III was the first political criminal, before Macbeth,whom Shakespeare chose to portray as a tragic hero. The hunchbackedking is fascinated by...

Georg Friedrich Händel wrote  Semele  after his Italian operas, during a period when the majority of his compositions were oratorios. The...

After  La Bohème , Puccini went resolutely for innovation and drama pur sang with  Tosca.  One of the...

Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites takes us within the closed setting of a Carmelite convent at the time of the French...

In a similar vein to Verdi, Puccini reveals an incredible love for renewal at the end of his life. Turandot ,...

Madame Butterfly is the drama of a Japanese geisha who, in her love for a man from a foreign culture, exchanges her...