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Richard Farnes returns to Opera North to conduct and Sam Brown directs a concert staging of Wagner's final opera, Parsifal. 

Sam Brown's sparse production leaves nothing to focus on but the individual protagonists on stage. 

Welsh National Opera's new production of The Barber of Seville disappoints in an uncoordinated performance in Bristol. 

In the cosy confines of a packed Hampstead Theatre ENO’s English adaptation of Jacob Lenz produced an exciting, entertaining and emotionally draining 70 minutes of opera. Premiered in 1979 this is Rihm’s account of Sturm und Drang writer Jakob Lenz’s descent into madness.

In seiner neuen Inszenierung schafft Sam Brown mit naturalistischem Bühnenbild einen librettotreuen Kostüm- und Kulissenschinken, der die Zeiten transzendiert. Dabei heraus sticht Doris Soffel mit extravaganter Bühnenpräsenz.

Coup d'envoi de la rentrée lyrique genevoise avec le Barbier de Séville, premier volet d'une trilogie consacré à Figaro.