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The French soprano confirms her status as the best current performer of Léo Delibes masterpiece in a concert with a solid supporting cast.

Verdi and Schiller lose out to Barbora Horáková in a new staging for English National Opera. 

Alexander Joel conducts The Hallé in Mahler's First Symphony and Korngold's “Hollywood” Violin Concerto. 

Welsh National Opera brought a cast of strong voices to Birmingham for a production of Rigoletto intriguingly set in the White House of the 1960s. 

Red-blooded performances from the three principals at Covent Garden, even if there are vocal misfires along the way. 

Jonathan Miller's production of La bohème is revived by ENO and features an important house debut. 

The father-daughter exchanges between Dmitri Platanias's jester and Sofia Fomina's Gilda prove the highlights of an evening which doesn't always catch fire.

At its local Antwerp première, David Bösch’s new production of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane makes it the only house ever to have mounted twice.

An aesthetically handsome but cold and distant staging mars the long-awaited return of  Eva-Maria Westbroek as Puccini’s heroine at Dutch National Opera.

The unclear ideas and the excessive blackness in Thalheimer’s concept failed to convince, but Stoyanov and Joel’s presentation of Verdi’s score made up for those problems.

In Zurich, a dazzling production of Puccini's great Turandot gives us the stuff of torment, torture and all the other idiosyncracies of love at the executuve level.

For anyone seeing Carmen for the first time, this Royal Opera revival will have been a more than satisfactory evening. Old hands hoping to see something extra will find it in Hymel's Don José and Car's Micaëla, but not elsewhere.

Joseph Calleja and Anna Netrebko show off their vocal qualities, leading a star cast above an uninspiring orchestral performance in John Copley's Royal Opera production of La bohème in what is to be its last season.

Any revival of La traviata stands or falls by its principals and their ability to inhabit the roles rather than merely sing them prettily. A good revival director helps. 

Die neue Inszenierung am Gürtel transportiert das Publikum in einen göttlichen Wiener Olymp.

Annette Dasch und Daniel Schmutzhard lassen eine der beliebtesten Volskopernproduktionen wie eine Premiere aussehen, auch gesungen und getanzt wird auf höchstem Niveau.

Das Hessische Staatstheater Wiesbaden feiert die Wiederaufnahme seiner Meistersinger mit einer Inszenierung, die aktueller denn je ist und auch unangenehme Fragen aufwirft.

L'Opéra national de Lorraine accueille la production foisonnante de Rigoletto mis en scène par Richard Brunel, avec un casting vocal particulièrement brillant et une direction musicale tirée au cordeau.

Wie schon bei der Premiere 2016 bietet Renaud Doucets Inszenierung ideale Voraussetzungen für einen hochwertigen Hoffmann.

La nouvelle saison de l'Opéra de Marseille débute avec une production de Manon de Massenet. Timide mais prométeuse ouverture de saison.