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Tenor-turned-director José Cura transplants the action from southern Italy to Buenos Aires. 

Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Le nozze di Figaro boasted a young, capable, and energetic cast, a lively staging, and an intimate venue to put it all across. 

Andrea Chénier returns to San Francisco Opera after a long absence, in Sir David McVicar's realistic production. 

Too many paparazzi and not enough Puccini in Robert Carsen’s Manon Lescaut in Vienna.

Yesterday I went to see a convoluted story about French revolutionaries, as belted out at top volume to serviceable but hardly creative ballads. No, I didn’t go to the Les misérables movie. I went to see Roberto Alagna in Opera Orchestra of New York’s concert presentation of Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier.