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The French director updates the action to the present day, underscoring the validity of the plot – feuding families and class differences are still relevant. 

Evgeny Titov's new production is heavy on the jokes and light in substance, but delights anyway thanks to its high-class cast. 

The second cast of the season for Oliver Mears' new Royal Opera production augments the intelligent staging with superb singing and acting.

The Donizetti Opera festival continues its remarkable initiative to stage every opera on its bicentennial.

Everyone is in the know in Jan Philipp Gloger's “School for Lovers”, receiving its first revival at Covent Garden. 

Graham Vick stages his Marriage of Figaro in todays vulgarity, but he is not fully convincing.

Herheim pulls us in unexpected directions, makes us laugh and makes us think as we enjoy fine Rossinian music and singing in Opéra de Lyon's production.

A disappointing new production by David Marton at Opéra de Lyon. 

David Pountney’s 2014 staging was revived in Naples with good singing and empathetic conducting.

Damiano Michieletto's new production in Venice sets the operetta in the 1950s. 

Lord Sidney's contemplation of the insanity of the world seems to be the impetus for this delirious production. So endless is its stream of gags that to attend this show is to be left feeling exhausted.

Opera Vlaanderen revives a production of Handel's Agrippina based on American soap operas of the 1980s.

Director Michieletto’s playful staging, Stefano Montanari’s expressive conducting and stylish singing from a cast of seasoned Rossinian singers make for a thoroughly enjoyable new production of the too rare Il viaggio a Reims at the Dutch National Opera.

Right, we had our fun with the lively Scholl/Jaroussky concert in the Barbican in December, now for the serious stuff, Andreas Scholl singing the Purcell his admirers have wanted to hear for years. With one or two exceptions, the programme concentrated on Purcell's quieter, deeper and more reflective repertoire.