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Opportunities to hear Paliashvili's Abesalom da Eteri in the West are rare, so it proves a treat to hear what is deemed to be the greatest of Georgian operas in the beautiful opera house in Tbilisi.

Andriy Yurkevych leads a rousing musical performance, but this visually impressive Nabucco tries to hard to be relevant and misses the mark.

The tears of a clown behind the public mask? Glyndebourne's first ever production of Rigoletto takes the audience to Hollywood in the silent film era. 

Despite occasionally brilliant singing, the Norwegian National Opera fails to raise seasonal spirits with a dramatically inert Cavalleria rusticana and a shaky Pagliacci.