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Marco Armiliato’s conducting thrills and Federica Lombardi's radiant Amelia stands out in the Wiener Staatsoper’s latest revival of Simon Boccanegra.

Opera lovers’ favorite roué is back at the Met, with the charismatic Ryan Speedo Green taking on the title role.

The season-ending performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony loses its intended conductor but remains enjoyable, if somewhat under-rehearsed. 

A rising German conductor draws superb playing from the orchestra in the Met’s fifth revival of Richard Eyre’s witty 2014 production.

Lyric Opera of Chicago revives its diverting and divisive 2015 original production by Barbara Gaines, who does it like a Shakespearean sex farce. 

The Grand Théâtre de Genève presents a new production of Mozart’s opera seria where the focus is all on dancing and rope twirling. Nevertheless, a good cast, led by Federica Lombardi as Elettra, manages to shine through.

Deutsche Oper Berlin presents an uninspiring production by David Alden, with a solid cast led by Federica Lombardi. 

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. 

Cyril Teste versetzt Norma in die 1930er Jahre, bleibt aber wichtige Antworten schuldig. Zusammen mit einem eher schwachen Ensemble wirkt diese Neuinszenierung eher wie ein altes Repertoirestück.

Castelluccis ideen- und effektreiche Inszenierung bleibt auch in der „Neueinstudierung“ mit verändertem Orchester und Sängern beim Publikum umstritten.

Ein Glücksfall, dass die Wiener Staatsoper für die szenische Umsetzung Barrie Kosky gewonnen hat. So unterhaltsam ist Mozarts Oper selten.

De retour à Paris pour fêter le centenaire de sa première venue avenue Montaigne, l’Orchestre de l’Opéra de Vienne a fait forte impression dans l'opéra de Mozart sous la direction de Philippe Jordan.

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.

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