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Music Director Douglas Boyd conducts a performance of exceptional musical quality, and Louisa Muller's uncontroversial but passionate direction makes this Traviata one for the ages.

Director Dmitri Tcherniakov and a talented cast do everything to make Tchaikovsky’s opera work in Amsterdam, but problematic elements persist. 

Simon Higlett’s exquisite sets and costumes give a backdrop to Donizetti’s frothiest of rom-coms.

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

Willy Decker's production, presented in Zürich in 2014, is revived at the Hamburgische Staatsoper with most of the same cast

Neither Sir Walter Scott nor Donizetti were well served by the farcical staging, but finally bellissimo bel canto prevailed over the production.

Michael Boyd's stylish new production is broadly traditional, apart from beyond-the-grave appearances by Lensky. 

Despite the sombre staging, it’s the vocal fire that blazes in this impressive Trovatore in Paris.

Cardiff Castle hosted an entertaining bout of medieval jousting yesterday afternoon, but in the evening all eyes and ears turned to the vocal jousting in St David’s Hall.

In Tcherniakovs neuer Inszenierung an der Staatsoper Hamburg ist Asmik Grigorian nach fünf Jahren endlich wieder als Salome zu erleben.

Leider scheitern die guten Ideen des Regisseurs, Philipp Himmelmann, an der Umsetzung.

Transfigurant littéralement le personnage de Lucia, Pretty Yende déploie une palette vocale stupéfiante et fait preuve d'une intelligence artistique tant dans son jeu scénique que dans son interprétation vocale, absolument sublime.

En l'église de St Martin-in-the-Fields à Londres, la Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris se joignait aux musiciens du Southbank Sinfonia pour un voyage mozartien éclairé à la bougie.