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A beautiful, relevant Madama Butterfly arrives in Adelaide

By Brian Angus, 14 November 2019

The State Opera of South Australia launch a beautifully sung, dramatically performed Madama Butterfly conveying a powerfully confrontational telling of the opera.

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Adelaide

15 Nov 2019

A beautiful, relevant Madama Butterfly arrives in Adelaide

By Brian Angus

Glasgow

Amicus Orchestra brings summer sunshine to Glasgow’s West End Festival

By David Smythe, 15 June 2019

The Amicus Orchestra conducted by Robert Baxter with Tobias Ringborg as violin soloist brought a touch of sunshine to Glasgow’s West End Festival with popular Humperdinck, Bruch and Dvořák.

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Glasgow

16 Jun 2019

Amicus Orchestra brings summer sunshine to Glasgow’s West End Festival

By David Smythe

Glasgow

Stovepipe hats are back: Scottish Opera’s steampunk Magic Flute returns

By David Smythe, 04 May 2019

Sir Thomas Allen’s crowd-pleasing Magic Flute returns to Scottish Opera in a finely sung performance with Tobias Ringborg drawing period colours from the orchestra.

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Glasgow

06 May 2019

Scottish Opera’s steampunk Magic Flute returns

By David Smythe

Auckland

Talented young cast shines in New Zealand Opera's La bohème

By Simon Holden, 19 September 2018

It was hard not to be drawn in by the romance and tragedy as presented by such a sincere, credible and vocally talented young cast and a conductor with such strong identification with the idiom.

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Auckland

21 Sep 2018

Talented young cast shines in New Zealand Opera's La bohème

By Simon Holden

Leeds

Opera North presents stark contrasts with Cavalleria rusticana and Trial by Jury

By Richard Wilcocks, 27 September 2017

Opera North's Little Greats festival continues with two deeply contrasting short operas - a grimly tragic and austere version of Macagni's Cavalleria rusticana and a frothy and hilarious production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury.

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Leeds

29 Sep 2017

Opera North presents stark contrasts with Cavalleria rusticana and Trial by Jury

By Richard Wilcocks

Leeds

Opera North's Little Greats: jealousy, murder and childhood fantasy

By Richard Wilcocks, 16 September 2017

Charles Edwards and Annabel Arden direct Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges in a contrasting pairing of two short operas in Opera North's 'Little Greats' season.

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Leeds

17 Sep 2017

Opera North's Little Greats: jealousy, murder and childhood fantasy

By Richard Wilcocks

Stockholm

Asmik Grigorian a heartfelt lead in Fedora, framed by Christof Loy in Stockholm

By Laura Servidei, 10 December 2016

Beautiful singing at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm for the Scandinavian première of Giordano's Fedora.

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Stockholm

12 Dec 2016

Asmik Grigorian a heartfelt lead in Fedora

By Laura Servidei

Glasgow

Borderline sumptuous: Scottish Opera revives The Marriage of Figaro

By Gregor Forbes, 12 October 2016

Inventive comedy and excellent musicality bring Sir Thomas Allen’s traditional production back to life.

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Glasgow

13 Oct 2016

Borderline sumptuous: Scottish Opera's Figaro

By Gregor Forbes

High Wycombe

A stern Father's Day treat: Mozart Idomeneo at Garsington

By Charlotte Valori, 19 June 2016

Mozart's messy monster of an opera gets a brutalist tidy-up at Garsington, but the determinedly straightforward reading only makes this work's innate problems more obvious.

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High Wycombe

21 Jun 2016

A stern Father's Day treat: Mozart Idomeneo at Garsington

By Charlotte Valori

Leeds

Opera North's L'elisir d'amore bubbles with life in Leeds

By Richard Wilcocks, 17 February 2016

Opera North's revival of L'elisir d'amour directed by Daniel Slater at the Grand Theatre, Leeds, still bubbles with life, in spite of its age.

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Leeds

18 Feb 2016

L'elisir d'amore bubbles with life in Leeds

By Richard Wilcocks

Auckland

High-octane Tosca in Auckland

By Simon Holden, 17 September 2015

Fine singing from Simon O’Neill and Orla Boylan in New Zealand Opera's production of Tosca.

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Auckland

19 Sep 2015

High-octane Tosca in Auckland

By Simon Holden

Glasgow

Scottish Opera ends its season in great voice with Il trovatore

By David Smythe, 17 May 2015

Scottish Opera's Il trovatore has a uniformly strong cast and shorus who sing finely, conducted by Tobias Ringwood producing spectacular sounds from the orchestra. A wonderful end to the season.

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Glasgow

18 May 2015

Scottish Opera ends its season in great voice with Il trovatore

By David Smythe

Leeds

Opera North's Macbeth at Leeds Grand Theatre

By Richard Wilcocks, 07 February 2014

A welcome return for Tim Albery's intelligent production of Verdi's Macbeth with Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre.

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Leeds

08 Feb 2014

Opera North: Macbeth

By Richard Wilcocks

Auckland

A visually stunning Madama Butterfly from New Zealand Opera

By Simon Holden, 18 April 2013

Sometimes in a performance there is a moment when everything just comes together; when every element on stage is operating at such a high level that the performance transcends these elements and causes one to become so immersed in the proceedings that you forget you’re at a performance at all.

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Auckland

19 Apr 2013

A visually stunning Madama Butterfly from New Zealand Opera

By Simon Holden

Leeds

Don Giovanni successfully launches Opera North's new season

By Richard Wilcocks, 28 September 2012

Director Alessandro Talevi’s imagination, wit and audacity meant that Don Giovanni, which has just launched Opera North’s new season, was a huge success. The production was enthralling throughout, never dragging or disappointing, even in the second act. It works much better than others I have seen, because the emphasis is placed firmly on the comic rather than the pathetic.

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Leeds

04 Oct 2012

Don Giovanni successfully launches Opera North's new season

By Richard Wilcocks