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Conductor Leon Botstein and director Jean-Roumain Vesperini treat this Tudor soap opera with appropriate grandeur, while a top-notch cast deliver the vocal goods.

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

Andrew Sinclair and Zandra Rhodes' hugely colourful and affecting “Pearl Fishers” for Kansas City Lyric Opera

And the new, Spring casting for David McVicar's new production of Tosca has an ace in the hole – Anna Netrebko – and she certainly did not disappoint. 

The opera can be summed up by a line sung by the Countess in Act 4: “You’re killing her with all this noise.”

2016 Filene Young Artists give outstanding performance in Gassmann's Opera Seria.

Pour sa première mise en scène lyrique en cette période de fêtes, Pierre Rigal livre une production inaboutie du singspiel de Mozart, heureusement rehaussée par un plateau vocal convaincant.