Salzburger Festspiele [ENA] John Neumeier’s Die kleine Meerjungfrau at the Salzburg Festival is a work of rare emotional refinement, a ballet that transforms Hans Christian Andersen’s beloved tale into a deeply human meditation on longing, sacrifice, and artistic imagination. Set to Lera Auerbach’s evocative music and brought to Salzburg by the Hamburg Ballet, the production promises an evening of extraordinary theatrical beauty.   [Full story...]

Wiener FestWochen [ENA] Nesterval’s Wallden is a bold and imaginatively layered performance that turns the Nibelungen material into something urgently present, bodily, and politically alert. Rather than treating myth as a museum object, the production uses it as a living reservoir of images and conflicts, then places those materials inside a speculative future where survival, desire, and collective identity are all up for negotiation.   [Full story...]