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SevilleLa bohème

Teatro de la Maestranza y Salas del Arenal, S.A.
Puccini: La bohème
Carlo Montanaro; Sir Jonathan Miller; Teatro de la Maestranza; Valentin Egel; Isabella Bywater; Jean Kalman

TokyoDer Rosenkavalier

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Strauss R.: Der Rosenkavalier
Patrick Hahn; Sir Jonathan Miller; New National Theatre; Isabella Bywater; Mutsumi Isono; Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

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Verdi: Falstaff
Maurizio Benini; Sir Jonathan Miller; New National Theatre; Isabella Bywater; Peter Petschnig; Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
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Bly or Bedlam? ENO’s new The Turn of the Screw

Ailish Tynan (Governess) © Manuel Harlan
Isabella Bywater directs an evocative new production of Britten’s ghost opera, well performed at the Coliseum. 
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Undernourished: ENO’s Bohème revival lacks red meat

Nadine Benjamin (Mimì) and Joshua Blue (Rodolfo) © Lloyd Winters
Sir Jonathan Miller’s production of Puccini’s classic remains powerful, but ENO’s latest revival underwhelms at the Coliseum. 
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Letting Górecki’s music do the work: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Nicole Chevalier in Symphony of Sorrowful Songs © Clive Barda
House debutants, soprano Nicole Chevalier and conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya, excel in Isabella Bywater's Górecki staging to close English National Opera's season.
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Chilly revival of Jonathan Miller's Bohème at ENO

A well-sung revival of Jonathan Miller's Bohème at the coliseum fails to catch fire.
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Welsh National Opera on tour: a musically powerful Madama Butterfly

Lindy Hume's new production works reasonably well in allowing the story to be told with sufficient emotional weight.
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A Eugene Onegin that's less than the sum of its parts in Seattle

Tomer Zvulun's mostly traditional account of the Tchaikovsky masterpiece arrives at Seattle Opera in an attractively staged but underwhelming package.
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Staging Górecki’s Sorrowful Songs

Isabella Bywater © E Moreno Esquibel
This season, Henryk Górecki’s Third Symphony hits London’s stages twice: Crystal Pite expands Flight Pattern for a new work at The Royal Ballet, while Isabella Bywater presents it at English National Opera.