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Compelling singers carry the day in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's first staging of Wagner’s swansong. 

Christof Loy and Carlo Rizzi score a great success in bringing Respighi’s rarely performed opera the Deutsche Oper Berlin. 

David Pountney completes his “Verdi trilogy” for the company but although his staging has fluidity, it lacks an explosive ending... and the vocal performances disappoint. 

The Don is dark and light, the production somewhere in between, with strong singing and musical direction but stodgy staging. 

In the tiring role of Menelaus Andreas Schager was a mighty Heldentenor, combining impressive sound power with a dazzling colour and without ever showing a moment of fatigue.

Musically, WNO gets it right. Straightforward brilliance is the order of the day, and plenty of it.

Jean-Louis Martinoty’s scenically seductive Don Giovanni comes as a welcome relief from recent Regietheater aberrations.