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Bernstein’s devastating double bill of raw emotion cuts to the bone

Wallis Giunta (Dinah) © Marc Brenner 2024
Henry Neill gives a devastating performance as Sam in Trouble in Tahiti in The Royal Opera’s Bernstein double bill in the Linbury Theatre. 
****1
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Madcap comedy from Verdi: Un giorno di regno at Garsington

Joshua Hopkins (Il cavaliere di Belfiore) © Julian Guidera
Christopher Alden, Chris Hopkins and an excellent cast send us a comic roller coaster ride with Verdi’s ultra-rarely performed second opera.
*****
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ETO's new Il viaggio a Reims is a long journey

Il viaggio a Reims © Richard Hubert Smith
A Rossini comedy should sparkle, but this new production, starting its tour from Hackney, is decidedly lacking bubbles.
**111
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Entertaining, not enchanting: The Golden Cockerel at ETO

Rimsky-Korsakov's anti-tsarist satirical fairytale makes for an entertaining rarity in ETO's spring tour.
***11
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Brush up your Janáček: foxy tales at Opera Holland Park

Jennifer France stars in Stephen Barlow's staging of The Cunning Little Vixen, set in the perfect surroundings of Holland Park. 
****1
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Wolf-Ferrari entertains, Tchaikovsky bewitches at Holland Park

Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna provides an airy bon-bouche to Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, brilliantly sung by Natalya Romaniw and David Butt Philip and conducted to fairy-tale perfection by Sian Edwards
***11
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