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Kathleen Belcher's production is well sung and vividly characterized – but a focus on the comedy comes at the expense of pathos

Hats off to Andreas Homoki, Artistic Director at the Zurich Opera House, for staging a musical around “the chill of ghostly shadows”.

Zambello's politically re-'woke' West Side Story comes to Kansas.

The finale of the BBCSO’s Bernstein celebration features the composer at his most sublime and frivolous, and offers a rare performance of Songfest for six soloists and orchestra.

Mozart meets the movies as 1927's wacky production comes to Opera Philadelphia. 

Opera North's Kiss Me Kate directed by Jo Davies at Leeds Grand Theatre is sheer joy.

Dancing, jokes, a pogrom and Bryn Terfel balancing on milk vats. It could only be Fiddler on the Roof. Grange Park Opera took an eclectic combination and planted if successfully on the Proms stage.

Opera god meets Hollywood royalty on stage at the Coliseum, in a transatlantic production which heralds the ENO's intention to bring musical theatre back into their repertoire. 

War Horse at the Royal Albert Hall: the Proms commemorate the beginning of the First World War.

Avec une version noire et dépouillée de West Side Story, Barrie Kosky et Otto Pichler révèlent l'essence et les potentialités d'une œuvre trop peu explorée jusqu'à présent.