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Los AngelesCandide
Bernstein: Candide
Lina González-Granados; Francesca Zambello; LA Opera; James Noone; Jennifer Moeller; Mark McCullough; LA Opera Orchestra
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Verdi: Nabucco
Domingo Hindoyan; Thaddeus Strassberger; LA Opera; Mattie Ullrich; Mark McCullough; LA Opera Orchestra
San FranciscoDas Rheingold
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Eun Sun Kim; Francesca Zambello; San Francisco Opera; Michael Yeargan; Catherine Zuber; Mark McCullough; San Francisco Opera Orchestra
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Da capo für die Macbeth-Premierenbesetzung in Wien
Tatiana Serjan sticht in einer ansonst soliden Macbeth-Inszenierug von Christian Räth hervor.
Porgy and Bess: Catfish Row arrives in Kansas City
Francesca Zambello's magnificent production of the Gershwins’ American epic comes to the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
Brian Vu and Meredith Arwady shine in Glimmerglass Candide
Glimmerglass Opera Festival’s production of Candide leans heavily on a dry comedic sensibility, which most of the cast execute admirably.
Defiant Domingo's Macbeth wins them over at the Staatsoper
At 78, Domingo rages against the ravages of time, and – certainly in this production – shows the next generation a thing or two about stagecraft.
Quality singing in a setting with novel accents at Glimmerglass
Francesca Zambello sets the whole opera as a flashback, showing, during the prelude, the heroine surrounded by doctors and nurses in a sanatorium for patients dying from tuberculosis.
Venera Gimadieva leads a moving Traviata in DC
A strong new Traviata from Washington National Opera with the welcome house debut of Venera Gimadieva as a fabulous Violetta.