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UNCOVERED: Barrie kosky - The Untold Story

‘We want people on the edge of their seats’: Royal Opera boss Oliver Mears on the new season – and the controversies of the last

Wagnerites rejoice! Parsifal and the climax of Barrie Kosky’s acclaimed Ring cycle are in the pipeline. The director of opera talks about scoring a bullseye, the storms that rocked last season – and how to avoid sending audiences to sleep

The Guardian - UK

Siegfried at Royal Opera: A spectacular triumph

4/5 The latest part of Wagner’s Ring cycle at Royal Opera is remarkably performed and staged

Evening Standard

Siegfried review – invigorating and mesmerising staging, with Schager outstanding as Wagner’s hero

The third opera of Barrie Kosky’s Ring cycle again places the naked ancient earth goddess centre stage in a thoughtful and deft production that boasts an excellent cast and orchestral playing that captures the score’s complex colours

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Beginner’s Gluck: how the 18th-century composer and a castrato changed opera forever

Over 250 years after Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice presented opera in a new way, an acrobatic staging aims to do the same. Iestyn Davies, whose Orpheus will be amid the tumblers, dancers and acrobats, writes of pushing boundaries – and heart-stopping wonder

The Guardian - UK

Saul review – probing, dark and engrossing staging of Handel’s oratorio

Barrie Kosky’s remarkable 2015 production returns to the summer festival with Christopher Purves and Iestyn Davies superb in the lead roles

The Guardian - UK

Die Walküre review – Kosky’s formidable staging is full of magic and menace

The second of the Royal Opera’s new Ring cycle again places Erda, the ancient Earth Mother, at its heart to create a memorable new production full of very fine singing and playing

The Guardian - UK

Wagner's Die Walküre at Royal Opera: revelatory and apocalyptic

5/5 This stark and stunning production by Barrie Kosky is apocalyptic and breathtaking

Evening Standard

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‘Touching the soul is all that matters!’ The outrageous genius of Barrie Kosky and his Wagner phantasmagoria

He put Carmen in a gorilla suit and had Das Rheingold’s Erda represented by an 82-year-old naked woman. What are the the director’s plans for his edge-of-the-seat Die Walküre?

The Guardian - UK

Barrie Kosky carves his name with The Threepenny Opera

Barrie Kosky's version of The Threepenny Opera is tipped to become a definitive production of the Brecht and Weill masterpiece.

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The Threepenny Opera review – Barrie Kosky’s deliciously entertaining take on Brecht

The director brings great urgency and panache to this scathing critique of capitalism, with knockout performances in a bold and seductive show

The Guardian - AU

Better call Saul off, but isn’t this opera exactly why trigger warnings were invented?

A student production of Handel’s work about the Israelite king has been cancelled in case of parallels with Middle East war

The Guardian - UK

Global artists feature on 2024 Adelaide Festival bill

The first Adelaide Festival with new artistic director Ruth Mackenzie brings work from big name global artists to the city.

AAP

The week in classical: Das Rheingold; Lucerne festival review – all about oil

From an all-consuming performance of Barrie Kosky’s fierce new Rheingold to a stage invasion in Lucerne, musical excellence and the climate emergency went hand in hand

The Guardian - UK

Das Rheingold review – uncluttered staging is a compelling start to Kosky’s Ring cycle

With the figure of earth goddess Erda present throughout, the message – of the despoliation of the natural world – is clear. There’s no weak link in a uniformly strong cast, and in the pit Pappano has the measure of Wagner’s grandeur and intimacy

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Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera review: this could be a Ring to savour as it unfolds in the coming years

Christopher Maltman is well on the way to becoming a truly great Wotan

The Guardian - UK

‘The most dangerous stage I’ve ever been on’: the wildest performances of Wagner’s Ring

Gods! Dragons! Horned helmets! Swords! Valkyries! The 15-hour apocalyptic epic is about to explode onto the Royal Opera stage. But what’s the best way to tackle ‘the ultimate opera’?

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Shows to look out for at this year’s Edinburgh Festivals

THIS year’s Edinburgh Festivals open in the coming days.

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Dialogues des Carmélites; Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Rattle – review

Poulenc’s shattering opera disturbs and confounds in Barrie Kosky’s new Glyndebourne production; Wagner meets the pre-Raphaelites at Grange Park Opera. Plus, a thrilling farewell from Simon Rattle

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Dialogues des Carmélites at Glyndebourne review: utterly enthralling and searingly timely

Never has Poulenc’s masterpiece seemed so searingly a work of our time

The Guardian - UK

Dialogues des Carmélites review – jeggings not wimples but Poulenc’s opera grips and haunts still

Barrie Kosky’s powerful new contemporary-set production is brought to life by a remarkable cast, led by Sally Matthews, and, in the pit, the LPO and Robin Ticciati bring heartbreaking delicacy and energy

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Fiddler on the Roof’: Lyric Opera’s rethinking of classic musical emphasizes its historical reality as well as its wit

The production, first seen at Germany’s Komische Oper Berlin, scrapes away the kitschy patina to reveal its musical treasures and emotional core.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago theater for fall 2022: Our top 10 includes ‘Dreamgirls,’ ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and ‘The Notebook’

CHICAGO — The total number of theater shows on offer in Chicago has not returned to pre-pandemic levels. But the lists of coming attractions still contain some appealing offerings of all stripes. Here’s a selection of 10 shows, all with Chicago origins and involving Chicago artists, that look to have…

The Guardian - AU

The Golden Cockerel review – dazzling opera about a mad Russian autocrat

Director Barrie Kosky dusts off a 113-year-old tale of a tsar’s midlife crisis, never before seen in Australia – and the result is dizzying and hypnotic

The Guardian - AU

Crystal vaginas, giant noses and ‘vaudeville on acid’: Barrie Kosky on his most outrageous shows

Kosky is known globally for breathing spectacular excess into old work. As The Golden Cockerel opens at Adelaide festival, he discusses his boldest moments

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