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A visually captivating and lyrically authentic production by Doug Scholz-Carlson for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.

Stripped of melodramatic excess, soprano Patricia Racette and director James Darrah craft a portrait of a desperate, lonely woman that is uncomfortably, thrillingly human.

Chaotic staging detracts from imaginative pairing of Poulenc's songs with his one-act, one-performer opera. 

Robert Longbottom's take on Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment captures the spirit of bel canto in Washington DC. 

A wittily staged, but variably sung twelfth revival of Jonathan Miller's production at the Coliseum.