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In this revival of Stephen Lawless' busy production, set in 1945 Italy, young American tenor Jonah Hoskins' endearing performance tilts Donizetti's charmer in a Nemorino-centric direction. 

Stephen Lawless' production of Donizetti’s whimsical comedy begins well and improves as it goes, with sparkling performances from an international cast.

Keith Warner directs a new opera which packs in betrayal, murder, oppression, freedom, love and the Spanish Inquisition into a mere 90 minutes.

Brilliant staging, superb acting, a magnetic performance from Virginie Verrez and an excellent orchestral performance make a strong case for Samuel Barber's all-but-forgotten chiller.

Carlo Rizzi conducts WNO's Tosca revival in Cardiff.

André Tchaikowsky's version of The Merchant of Venice combines his love of Shakespeare with his recollections of a harsh childhood as a Jew in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Santa Fe Opera presented Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette in Stephen Lawless’ mid 19th-century staging, a co-production with Barcelona's Liceu. Before the overture, General Director Charles MacKay came onstage to announce that Stephen Costello was ill and would be replaced by Joshua Guerrero, a graduate of the Los Angeles Opera Young Artist Program.

Luca Salsi y Anna Pirozzi encarnan el matrimonio Macbeth en una satisfactoria producción ambientada en la actualidad.

Eötvös' drei Melancholie-Schwestern führen das Frankfurter Publikum durch die todtraurigen und absurden Existenzformen des postmodernen menschlichen Daseins.

Uninspiriert inszeniert, doch mit Verve musikalisch umgesetzt ist die Strauß'sche Operette zwar kein Highlight, beschert aber dennoch einen unterhaltsamen Abend. 

Nonobstant un contexte social lyonnais très marqué par la grève, y compris à l’Opéra, on finit par accéder à la fête : légèreté, sens de la répartie, pétillantes envolées lyriques et chorégraphiques – voilà comment se présente la Nuit à Venise du « Roi de la Valse », Johann Strauss fils, à l'Opéra de Lyon.