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Shortened and simplified to adapt to restrictions, David Bösch's 2016 production succeeds in bringing Mozart's brilliant opera to a modern setting with a splendid cast of singers.

Dans les décors épurés de cette nouvelle production de La Bohème à Monte-Carlo, Andeka Gorrotxategi et Irina Lungu se distinguent.

Dutch National Opera's superbly sang Così fan tutte is transposed into a teenager summer crush story.

A new, successful production by Leiser and Caurier supports a great cast of Rossini specialists, with Teresa Iervolino, Paolo Bordogna and Davide Luciano in the lead roles.

Lotte de Beer’s Il barbiere di Siviglia for Dutch National Opera seems a surprisingly traditional spectacle... although it does come with a twist.

A debuting conductor, two new singers, and a fine ensemble of singers bring unexpected joy to the Met's traditional La bohème with fresh and youthful energy.

The Rossini Opera Festival stages a new production of the most famous of Rossini’s masterpieces to celebrate the composer in the 150th anniversary of his death.

The Deutsche Oper's production of Rossini's sparkling occasion piece is big on gags but short on stardust.

Ode à la légèreté et à la liberté, les Noces mozartiennes rassemblent également assez de faux-semblants et de jeux de masques pour rassasier les appétits de tout metteur en scène facétieux qui se respecte. 

The young tenor Maxim Mironov, who played the poet Giocondo, was the name on everyone's lips by the end of the show. His voice is a modestly-sized and soft-grained, but it is beautifully produced, and focuses to a laser-like point up top.

Enjoy this light and elegant opera buffa based on the play by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais before year's end, as 2016 marks the 200th anniversary year of its premiere.

1960s kitsch set in old Seville, excellent acting and movement direction combines with strong singing and immaculate playing from the OAE to make Glyndeboune's Le nozze di Figaro a triumph.

A musically convincing production of Niccolò Jommelli's L'isola disabitata, but with too many pretentious stage ideas.

A Puccini classic gets the classic treatment in this timeless production at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. 

Puccini's La fanciulla del West gets a modern update at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

A classical setting and a varying degree of vocal and dramatic success for Mozart's miraculous score to Le nozze di Figaro.

Joyce DiDonato, Carmen Giannattasio and Joseph Calleja star in a superb concert performance of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. 

Deutsche Oper Berlin’s Billy Budd, although musically satisfying, suffers through an ambiguously set production.