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Baroque purists might prefer a more surefire line-up of brilliantly executed arias, but the theatrical framework of Adrian Noble's Alcina production offers a great deal.

Vienna State Opera's traditional production of Carmen managed to create an evening of both sumptious music and exciting drama on stage.

The German premiere of a late-19th-century Italian opera that has closer musical and dramatic links to Wagner than to Verdi or Puccini.