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Santa FeMadama Butterfly

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Lee Blakeley; Santa Fe Opera; Jean-Marc Puissant; Brigitte Reiffenstuel; Rick Fisher; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra

EdinburghVerdi’s A Masked Ball

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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Gianandrea Noseda; Adele Thomas; Oper Zürich; Hannah Clark; Franck Evin; Orchester der Oper Zürich

New York CityLa bohème

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Puccini: La bohème
Ramón Tebar; Franco Zeffirelli; Metropolitan Opera; Peter J. Hall; Gil Wechsler; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

HamburgCarmen

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Bizet: Carmen
Omer Meir Wellber; Herbert Fritsch; Staatsoper Hamburg; N.N.; José Luna; Carsten Sander

ZürichDon Carlo

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Verdi: Don Carlo(s)
Petr Popelka; Sven-Eric Bechtolf; Oper Zürich; Rolf Glittenberg; Marianne Glittenberg; Jürgen Hoffmann; Orchester der Oper Zürich
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Liebesdreieck am englischen Königshof: Roberto Devereux in Zürich

Inga Kalna (Elisabetta) © Toni Suter

David Alden beschreitet einen Mittelweg zwischen Ausstattungsoper und Regietheater, Enrique Mazzola baut seinen historischen Ansatz aus, und Inga Kalna vermag die Erwartungen nicht ganz zu erfüllen.

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Butterfly entre vrai classicisme et faux avant-gardisme à Genève

Madame Butterfly à Genève © Carole Parodi
La metteuse en scène tchèque Barbora Horáková propose une direction d’acteur précise et efficace, au milieu d'écrans vidéo avec lesquels la proposition a du mal à fusionner.
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Canadian Opera Company opens season with Roméo et Juliette

Stephen Costello (Roméo) and Kseniia Proshina (Juliette) © Michael Cooper
Amy Lane’s production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the COC is eye-catching and enjoyable but doesn’t offer the same level of insight as her Faust last season. 
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Heggie’s newly staged Moby Dick lands triumphantly at the Met

Peter Mattei (Starbuck) © Karen Almond | Met Opera

Fifteen years after its Dallas Opera world premiere, Jake Heggie’s grand adaptation of Herman Melville’s sprawling epic arrives in New York in a stunning production with a standout cast.  

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Superb cast galvanizes the Met’s revival of Bartlett Sher’s Rigoletto

Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto) and Nadine Sierra (Gilda) © Nina Wurtzel | Met Opera
This revival of the company’s 2019 Weimar-inspired staging of Verdi’s heartbreaking masterpiece is distinguished by stylish singing. 
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A stirring Beethoven 9 from Tanglewood young musicians

Susanna Mälkki conducts the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra © Hilary Scott
The summer festival closes with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra playing Tippett and Beethoven. 
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