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The other Don Giovanni: Gazzaniga's take on the legendary lothario
It premiered in the same year as Mozart's opera, but Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni is virtually unknown. Despite the best efforts of an energetic student cast it doesn't come close to hitting the heights that Mozart and Da Ponte reached.
Lessons in Love and Violence: gorgeous tragedy without a heart
Given a new production by Evgeny Titov, Benjamin's second full-length opera is musically brilliant, but its examination of our inner darkness lacks heart.
Nightmares dressed as daydreams: Respighi and Ravel at the RCM
An opportunity to hear one of Respighi's operas in the UK is a real treat; the composer's take on Sleeping Beauty, La bella dormente nel bosco, is an ideal companion to to Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges in a terrific double bill at the Royal College of Music.
Puccini’s Il trittico: a successful revival in Munich
Ermonela Jaho steals the scene as Suor Angelica in a very successful revival of Lotte de Beer’s production.
Kosky's Semele revived in style at the Komische Oper Berlin
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Semele willingly pays the price of death through transformation.
Fleeting happiness: Robert Carsen's Tote Stadt at the Komische Oper
The Komische Oper's new staging of Korngold's opera doesn't quite offer the necessary scale or atmosphere.