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A standout performance by Alison Langer as Gilda lights up an Opera Holland Park season opener marred by illness. 

A production apt for audiences who prefer a traditional, intimate staging of the most often performed of all operatic works.

An unlikely coupling of one-act operas by Zemlinsky and Puccini bears fruit in a staging that reveals their thematic parallels while leaving their obvious differences on show.

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.

At the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, director Lotte de Beer presents a trendy and upbeat take on Traviata, unfortunately marred by a dumbed-down arrangement of Verdi’s music.

A musically convincing production of Niccolò Jommelli's L'isola disabitata, but with too many pretentious stage ideas.

Barbara Wysockas Inszenierung arbeitet die Komplexität der Titelrolle heraus und sorgt damit für nachhaltigen Eindruck beim Hörer.