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Franco Zeffirelli's perennial Bohème returns for yet another revival, with Federica Lombardi's luminous Mimì the standout performance. 

A strong cast led by an energetic Pablo Heras-Casado struggles in the revival of Jürgen Flimm's ill-conceived 2012 production.

Peter Mattei's smooth-as-silk baritone leads a handsome cast in the Metropolitan Opera's bleak new production of Mozart's great dramma giocoso. 

A luxuriously-cast revival takes a staid production of Mozart's Idomeneo to new, exciting heights. 

A sublime Federica Lombardi leads a young cast of mostly Italian singers in a revival of Sir David McVicar's popular staging. 

The pairing of controversial director and bad-boy conductor brings some thrills but the Salzburg Festival's new Don Giovanni proves disappointingly uninvolving. 

The Don is dark and light, the production somewhere in between, with strong singing and musical direction but stodgy staging. 

Graham Vick stages his Marriage of Figaro in todays vulgarity, but he is not fully convincing.

Diego Fasolis gives an enlightened, 18th-century account of the Mozart/da Ponte masterpiece, with great precision and elegance.

A revival of a verismo rarity: Umberto Giordano's La cene delle beffe at La Scala. 

Le baryton apporte une noblesse rare au rôle-titre de l'opéra de Verdi, présenté en conclusion de la saison lyrique à l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège.

Ein opulenter Augenschmaus mit einem großartigen jungen Mozart-Ensemble.

Ivor Bolton en la batuta y Claus Guth en la escena mostraron el universo lacerante de un Don Giovanni agotado.

Claus Guth nos traslada a un entorno sombrío y lúgubre para narrar las horas finales de un Don Giovanni herido de muerte.

In einer nüchternen Inszenierung hat Christof Loy versucht, in Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro vor allem musikalisch neue Akzente zu setzen.