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Stephen Lawless' production of Donizetti’s whimsical comedy begins well and improves as it goes, with sparkling performances from an international cast.

Andris Nelsons conducts a brisk, but pliant performance of Mozart’s dramma giocoso with a fine cast at Tanglewood. 

A wonderfully realized production at San Francisco Opera of Jake Heggie's operatic version of a holiday classic. 

Tenor-turned-director José Cura transplants the action from southern Italy to Buenos Aires. 

If you love Verdi's inventive music, enjoy fabulous male voices in particular, and appreciate great opera conducting with exquisitely sensitive orchestral playing – then this Rigoletto is a must.

While updated from the 18th century, the Merola Opera Program’s version of Così maintained a gaiety and sly wit that depended on the singers’ beautiful and virtuosic voices for its success.

La mise en scène d'Anna Bernreitner place l'opéra mozartien dans un univers de bande dessinée et de dessin animé qui rend l'ouvrage passionnant pour les novices comme pour les inconditionnels de La Flûte.

Au côté de quatre solistes de talent, l'Orchestre de Picardie et le Chœur de Chambre de Rouen proposaient à la Philharmonie une version de concert des Pêcheurs de perles.