Since 1989, he has been after bigger things: evening-length pieces and opera stagings.

Mr. Russell, who is known for his opera stagings, said this would be his first play.

Lengthy interview and list of opera stagings on Odb-opera.com (French)

Mr. Major has sometimes been criticized for overdoing the comic antics in his opera stagings, but here his work is just right.

The opera staging was not changed for the weekly radio broadcasts, Miss Steber said.

Interview about his opera stagings on Odb-opera.com (French)

He has published numerous scholarly studies on a range of topics in opera staging and production.

It is also unsuitable for large-scale opera stagings, lacking full stage facilities.

Most important, opera staging should cause the audience to reflect on the present.

The device of injecting historical characters into opera stagings must once have seemed fresh and original, but it long ago went stale.