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Niamh O’Sullivan brings charisma to an attractive, colourful production, but a lack of dramatic intensity leaves Bizet’s enduring tale of passion and possessiveness short of its full impact.

Sir Mark Elder conducts The Hallé in a stirring semi-staged production of Madama Butterfly.

Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu stages Puccini’s first great success as an operatic composer, Manon Lescaut with the stage direction of Davide Livermore. 

 “The Minghella Butterfly” has physically lost none of its luster, but the singing did not live up to the staging.

From the moment he stepped on stage as our ill-fated title character, Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo seemed as if he may burst at the seams. 

Vittorio Grigolo and Joyce DiDonato live up to their starry reputations in the Royal Opera's latest revival of Massenet's tale of unrequited love and suicide.

What makes for a good performance of Don Giovanni? Some have called it the greatest drama in opera, and with music by Mozart at the height of his compositional powers, its status as a masterpiece of Classical music is undisputed. Los Angeles Opera’s opening night production had elements both outstanding and troubled.

Dernier spectacle proposé dans l'éphémère Opéra des Nations, Viva la mamma ! est un formidable opéra dans l'opéra. La production doit beaucoup à ses deux Laurent, Pelly et Naouri.

Incohérences scéniques et aplatissements du livret mettent en question la lecture du mythe proposée par la production normande.

Avec une mise en scène originale, l'Opéra National du Rhin donne une version convaincante du dernier opéra de Mozart: La Clémence de Titus.

Laurent Laffargue insuffle une originalité à l'opéra de Puccini en le revisitant à la façon « sixties ».