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Davide Livermore's new production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena offers moderate pleasures, with solid performances by Ermonela Jaho in the title role, and Carmen Topciu as Jane Seymour.

Director Davide Livermore updates the plot to the period of the Russian Revolution, October 1917, a far echo of that turning point in 1403 when the Ottoman sultan Bajazet was defeated by the Tartar Timburlaine.

Livermore turns Norma into a dubious tribute to fantasy B-movies but Gregory Kunde and Karine Deshayes come to the rescue.

Das Gastspiel der Opéra de Monte-Carlo unter ihrer Intendantin Cecilia Bartoli sorgt in Wien einmal mehr für Begeisterung.

El Teatro de la Zarzuela pone en escena Luisa Fernanda, con maravillosa música del Moreno Torroba, la obra funciona magníficamente gracias a una resolutiva e innovadora escena y a un reparto entregado.