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Jack Furness directs a terrific new Queen of Spades at Garsington – haunting and harrowing. 

The second installment in The Atlanta Opera's first-ever Ring Cycle benefits from the committed performances of veteran Wagnerians like Christine Goerke and Greer Grimsley.

Cut-down Mozart meets monochrome cinema. This certainly won’t be the most sumptuous Don you’ll ever see, but it is committed, imaginative and admirably compact.

In Janáček's searing excoriation of small town social mores, superb orchestra, singing and acting make this revival of David Alden's Jenůfa into an unmissable evening of opera.

The Lyric Opera put together the best-sounding première of the year so far, in which singers, chorus and the orchestra all began with astonishing confidence and only improved from there.

Dans la lignée d'un Or du Rhin qui avait suscité critiques et incompréhensions, le deuxième volet de la Tétralogie déçoit grandement, malgré un excellent Stanislas de Barbeyrac dans le rôle de Siegmund.