What is opera: strictly music, strictly theatre? Grand and empty spectacles or beautiful, dramatic, and engaging stories about human beings - their inner life, minds, struggles with destiny, ...

Paweł Szymański’s debut opera, The Woman without a Shadow; Andrzej Dobber and Piotr Beczała’s CD are finalists in the prestigious International Opera Awards. Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Die ...

The production of Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Idiot, directed by Poland’s Krzysztof Warlikowski and premiered at last year’s Salzburg Festival, has been named best performance at the 2025 OPER!

If Krzysztof Warlikowski’s staging loses focus at points, outstanding performances and Mark Wigglesworth’s conducting ensure this is a compelling evening Krzysztof Warlikowski’s new Royal Opera ...

Polish theatre and opera director Krzysztof Warlikowski has received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre from the Venice Biennale A citation for the award describes Warlikowski as an ...

With an opera at the Salzburg Festival and recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, the music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg may be taking root. By Joshua Barone Starting in March at the Opéra Bastille, Ambroise ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If you love Janáček’s operas, now would be a good time to visit Germany. Berlin’s Staatsoper opened Robert ...

Opera superstars Sonya Yoncheva and Jonas Kaufmann are opening the season at Paris’ Opéra Bastille with Verdi’s ‘Don Carlos’. Opera superstars Sonya Yoncheva and Jonas Kaufmann are opening the season ...

This is Krzysztof Warlikowski’s staging of Lulu from La Monnaie in Brussels, deemed controversial when it opened in 2012. It’s an explicit, yet chilly interpretation of Berg’s masterpiece, hampered in ...