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This revival of the Met's 30-year-old production of Aida had a disappointing debut in the title role but Dolora Zajick's reign as Amneris is still a force of nature.

Has Health and Safety finally caught up with the Spanish Inquisition? A flameless auto-da-fé and some low-key individual performances meant this revival took time to hit its stride. 

A revival of a verismo rarity: Umberto Giordano's La cene delle beffe at La Scala. 

Young Russian coloratura soprano Maria Nazarova gets the Oscar. 

With elegant sets and superlative musicianship, Verdi came to life in the House where he is revered most. This musical feast will have us licking our lips for some time yet.

Cirque du Soleil producer Franco Dragone's new Aida for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples aimed to scrub off all the bombast from this triumphalistic work. The eccentricities of the production led to a poor-quality outcome, though there was some fine singing.

Yesterday I went to see a convoluted story about French revolutionaries, as belted out at top volume to serviceable but hardly creative ballads. No, I didn’t go to the Les misérables movie. I went to see Roberto Alagna in Opera Orchestra of New York’s concert presentation of Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier.

El Gran Teatre del Liceu cierra la temporada con Il trovatore, de Verdi. Las grandes voces de Ruciński y Cornetti dirigidos por Callegari y junto a la Orquesta del Liceu son el centro de una producción que conecta la historia de Manrico con la figura de Goya.