While the quality opera at Berlin’s three full-time opera houses isn’t nearly as consistant as one finds at the Met,  the way opera is done here is a helluva lot more exciting performance-to-performance.

Since September, I’ve been a Berlin correspondant for the New-York-based Opera News Magazine. My reviews of Hans Werner Henze’s Phaedra, Telemann’s Geduldige Sokrates and a double-header of Strauss’ Elektra and Gnecchi’s Cassandra are already on the website (www.operanews.com).

Stay tuned for evaluations of Don Giovanni and Ballo in Maschera at the Staatsoper, Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Deutsche Oper and the Komische’s Theseus.