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A standout performance by Alison Langer as Gilda lights up an Opera Holland Park season opener marred by illness. 

A production apt for audiences who prefer a traditional, intimate staging of the most often performed of all operatic works.

An unlikely coupling of one-act operas by Zemlinsky and Puccini bears fruit in a staging that reveals their thematic parallels while leaving their obvious differences on show.

An aesthetically handsome but cold and distant staging mars the long-awaited return of  Eva-Maria Westbroek as Puccini’s heroine at Dutch National Opera.

At the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, director Lotte de Beer presents a trendy and upbeat take on Traviata, unfortunately marred by a dumbed-down arrangement of Verdi’s music.

A musically convincing production of Niccolò Jommelli's L'isola disabitata, but with too many pretentious stage ideas.