With the audio software SpatialSound Wave from Fraunhofer, sounds can be positioned freely in the room, so that visual and acoustic events coincide realistically. In the Zurich Opera House the ...

Traveling to opera premieres, even if the opera house in question shows a seasoned hand at treating journalists exceedingly well, can be a bummer. For every traveled mile, expectations sneakily, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Robert Carsen’s Tosca is a diva’s diva, Maria Callas crossed with Marilyn Monroe and spiced with Jessica Rabbit. This ...

ZURICH — At the second performance of the Zurich Opera House’s new production of Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell,” there were boos before the first notes of the overture even sounded. The curtain rose on a ...

Grammy and ECHO Klassik Award-winning conductor Fabio Luisi continues to dominate the international stage in 2014-15. In his third season as General Music Director of the Zurich Opera, where the ...

BroadwayWorld is excited to expand its popular feature series outside the U.S. borders setting our sights on showcasing performance companies around the world! Each month we will introduce you to an ...

The Opernhaus Zurich is Switzerland’s largest cultural institution. As a joint-stock company with more than 2,400 private shareholders, it has remained in private hands to this day. Wilhelm ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The exorcisms, orgies and self-mutilation that feature in Prokofiev’s 1920s opera The Fiery Angel have proved ...

Gianandrea Noseda will be the next general music director of the Zurich Opera in the 2021-2022 season and will conduct his first “Ring” cycle there, directed by Andreas Homoki. The company made the ...