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L'Opéra de Toulon a remplacé la production de Semiramide qui aurait dû ouvrir sa saison par un magnifique concert lyrique.

David Pountney’s 2014 staging was revived in Naples with good singing and empathetic conducting.

Lengthy but full of melodic invention, Semiramide finally made her triumphant return to the Royal Opera in David Alden's fine new production.

Issues that cropped up in the first run of Mitchell's production have been ironed out. In the hands of a strong cast, a chilling interpretation of Donizetti's masterpiece.

Suggesting that Otello was a migrant, like modern refugees, was not a great staging idea for a production which could count on an high-rate vocal cast.

Maria Stuarda en version de concert venait cloture le "marathon" Donizetti présenté ce mois-ci à l'Opéra de Marseille. Représentation en demi-teinte. 

Superbe version de concert d'Anna Bolena à l'Opéra de Marseille ! Casting d'une homogénéité réjouissante ! 

In a staging new to Florence, the action is often merely a set of friezes, singers immobilised on a pair of moving plinths. 

Complete performances of Semiramide are as rare as hen's teeth. Opera Rara came close in a terrific concert performance in the Hanging Gardens of Kensington.

Triomphale Semiramide à l'Opéra de Marseille. Rossini servi par une distribution exceptionnelle qui honore l'art du « beau chant ». 

Despite its happy ending, Vincenzo Bellini’s last opera I puritani is a 19th century opera permeated by deathly shadows, disenchantment, fading of love and sentiments forced or burdened by political intrigues. 

Elena Barbalich's mis-en-scene for Le nozze di Figaro in Turin seemed a swirling game of Chinese boxes, but the vocal performances were full of vitality. 

On Thursday night the DC opera fans gathered at the Washington National Opera for the opening night of David Alden’s production of Donizetti’s timeless tale of love and horror, Lucia di Lammermoor. It soon became obvious that the production presented to us was not the most conservative one.