Barrie Kosky

Barrie Kosky peers into the abyss of the human soul and tackles one of the most important Symbolist masterpieces in the operatic repertoire.

08 de abr. de 2020

14 de mai. de 2025

The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between F...

02 de abr. de 2011

A devil is at work in the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy, terrifying residents and travellers alike. Among them a farmer whose daughter is not al...

02 de abr. de 2017

Pushkin folk tale as comedic opera whose sultry elements expand an Oriental influence. Korsakov portrays the story of Tsar Nicholas II, punished fo...

01 de abr. de 2021

Tosca is a melodrama of love, betrayal and death set in the revolutionary unrest of 1800. The story concerns the opera singer Floria Tosca who trie...

26 de jan. de 2023

This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera. The Au...

06 de mar. de 2018

Live performance from the Komische Oper Berlin, February 15 2016.

15 de fev. de 2016

In a poet's feverish imagination, the staging of Don Giovanni sets him off on a frenzied journey into nightmarish worlds. Can Mozart himself offer ...

09 de jul. de 2016

A couple and their hallucinatory journey to the dark side of passion. Renata is driven by a longing for the consummate sexual encounter. Since her ...

12 de dez. de 2015

Semele was written in 1743, by an already mature Handel, after his opera serias were becoming less well received than they had once been. The big n...

12 de mai. de 2018

Moses relies on his eloquent brother’s help to translate the abstract idea of God into understandable images. But don't his persuasive words mar th...

19 de abr. de 2015

Glyndebourne's Saul stole the summer and had critics raving. The Guardian (****) applauded virtuoso stagecraft from director Barrie Kosky in his de...

27 de mai. de 2016

When a precious hoard of gold is stolen from the river Rhine, it unleashes a chain of destructive events, pitting gods and mortals against one anot...

24 de set. de 2023

The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky’s astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a production...

20 de jul. de 2018

Lying in bed, Tsar Dodon dreams of retirement. The problem is, people keep invading his country. His astrologer offers him a golden cockerel with m...

26 de mai. de 2021

Bizet's greatest opera tells the story of the enigmatic and seductive Carmen and the dangerous passions of Don José. Live stream performance from ...

02 de jul. de 2019