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Opera News

• Karajan / Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro

  Tuesday, April 24th 2012

  
  Herbert von Karajan famously resigned as director of the Vienna State Opera in 1964, but in May 1977 he was persuaded to return for a handful of performances with the company.

• Rolando Villazon / Massenet: Werther

  Wednesday, February 22nd 2012

  
  In May 2011, Rolando Villazon made his acclaimed return to Covent Garden singing the title role in Massenet's Werther - 'a perfect fit for him' as The Independent glowed.

• Franz Welser-Most / Dvorak: Rusalka

  Friday, August 5th 2011

  
  The 2008 Salzburg Festival production of Dvorak’s opera Rusalka was outstanding even by the Festival’s high artistic standards.

• Simone Young / Wagner: Siegfried

  Thursday, June 30th 2011

  
  Of all Hamburg Ring Cycle premieres, the third waystation, “Siegfried”, has received the most applause until now.

• Antonio Pappano / Rossini: William Tell

  Monday, May 30th 2011

  
  Rossini’s complete final French Grand Opera William Tell in its definitive critical edition brough vividly to life by Antonio Pappano, Orchestra e coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under his musical directorship and a stellar international cast.

• Metzmacher / Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

  Wednesday, May 25th 2011

  
  It took a long time for the Vienna State Opera to get round to mounting a production of the first version of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

• Dmitri Hvorostovsky / Heroes and Villains

  Tuesday, May 17th 2011

  
  Delos International and Dmitri Hvorstovsky continue their award-winning partnership with a splendid new release, Heroes and Villains Dedicated to Delos Founder Amelia Haygood.