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Ferocious intensity: Pountney's new War and Peace at WNO
WNO make a compelling case for Prokofiev's gargantuan War and Peace.
Don Giovanni in a new adaptation by Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle's new translation is ingenious more often than incongruous; John Molloy's Leporello steals the show in the Opera Theatre's Don Giovanni.
Scottish Opera ends its season in great voice with Il trovatore
Scottish Opera's Il trovatore has a uniformly strong cast and shorus who sing finely, conducted by Tobias Ringwood producing spectacular sounds from the orchestra. A wonderful end to the season.