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Dmitri Tcherniakov’s staging of Rusalka in Naples has a starkly modern visual style which occasionally dilutes the story’s emotional impact.

Mariame Clément wants her cake and eats it in a thought-provoking production that explores Mozart’s opera through Leporello’s perspective.

Richard Jones' production is revived again at Covent Garden, where Juan Diego Flórez and Ailyn Pérez lead a convincing cast. 

Its premiere postponed from Festival d'Aix last summer, Barrie Kosky's staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's political satire finally takes place in Lyon. 

Cast changes and a revival director who sharpens up the action make all the difference to this revival of Rossini's *Barber of Seville* in Glyndebourne's opening weekend. 

The Russian director's role play production of Prokofiev's comedy falls flat at the Staatsoper.

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

Lisette Oropesa gives a coloratura star turn; Renato Girolami and Andrey Zhilikhovsky give the buffo patter; Mariame Clément's staging focuses on the work’s dark side.

In Paris, Russian enfant terrible reunites Iolanta with The Nutcracker... with wildly mixed results. 

Prokofjews Tolstoi-Veroperung kann an der Bayerischen Staatsoper dank kluger Regie durch Dmitri Tcherniakov und phänomenalem Dirigat von Vladimir Jurowski auch in aktuell belastendem politischen Umfeld überzeugen.