Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg 2025-26 Review: Hänsel und Gretel

(Photo: Klara Beck) This Christmas season, the Strasbourg Opera is staging Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera “Hänsel und Gretel.” Based on the eponymous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, which premiered in Weimar on December 23 in 1893, it is the ultimate Christmas opera. Exciting Production Details The production, featured December 7 to 17, gets off to a wonderful start. It is {…}

Sep 28, 2025

Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg 2025-26 Review: Le Triomphe du Temps et de la Désillusion

To start its 2025-2026 season, the Strasbourg Opera House welcomed the ensemble Les Accents with sopranos Mélissa Petit and Julia Lezhneva, countertenor Carlo Vistoli, and tenor Krystian Adam for a concert version of “Le Triomphe du Temps et de la Désillusion” on September 14, 2025. The concert version does not preclude the use of scenery, in this case essentially {…}