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London

Unreal city: The Rake's Progress at the Royal Academy of Music

By Benjamin Poore, 22 November 2022

Frederic Wake-Walker's realisation of the Hogarth-inspired opera is visually bracing and assuredly sung.

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London

23 Nov 2022

Unreal city: The Rake's Progress at the Royal Academy of Music

By Benjamin Poore

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Florence

Juan Diego Flórez charms as Roméo in Florence

By Elena Luporini, 03 May 2022

For the 84th edition of its summer festival, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents its first ever production of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.

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Florence

05 May 2022

Juan Diego Flórez charms as Roméo in Florence

By Elena Luporini

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Bergamo

L’elisir d’amore: a successful, interactive opening of the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo

By Laura Servidei, 19 November 2021

Riccardo Frizza conducts Alberto Zedda's critical edition of L’elisir d’amore with a great cast, including tenor star Javier Camarena and a very young, very promising prima donna, Caterina Sala.

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Bergamo

22 Nov 2021

A successful, interactive opening of the Donizetti Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei

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Glyndebourne

Strong cast lifts Wake-Walker's constrained staging in Glyndebourne Tour's Fidelio

By Nick Boston, 16 October 2021

A vast panopticon cages strong musical performances in Wake-Walker's Fidelio at Glyndebourne, with Dorothea Herbert and Adam Smith standing out vocally and emotionally as Leonore and Florestan.

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Glyndebourne

18 Oct 2021

Strong cast lifts constrained staging in Glyndebourne's Fidelio

By Nick Boston

London

Purcell and beyond: Errollyn Wallen’s dramatic new opera Dido’s Ghost

By David Smythe, 06 June 2021

A dramatic new opera from Errollyn Wallen, with the Dunedin Consort, chorus and a strong cast including Isabelle Peters, Matthew Brook, Nardus Williams and Allison Cook.

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London

07 Jun 2021

Purcell and beyond: Errollyn Wallen’s dramatic new Dido’s Ghost

By David Smythe

Milan

Ariadne in Milan: the director cannot find the thread

By Renato Verga, 23 April 2019

Frederic Wake-Walker sticks to a vapid pop-parody that demeans the intellectual message of Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos.

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Milan

24 Apr 2019

Ariadne in Milan: the director cannot find the thread

By Renato Verga

Cleveland

Welser-Möst unveils a musically superb Ariadne auf Naxos in Cleveland

By Timothy Robson, 13 January 2019

Tamara Wilson was a top-notch Ariadne, supported by a strong cast, including Kate Lindsey as a passionate Composer, a thrilling Zerbinetta by Daniela Fally, and an unbeatable Bacchus in Andreas Schager.

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Cleveland

14 Jan 2019

Welser-Möst unveils a musically superb Ariadne auf Naxos

By Timothy Robson

Cologne

An emotionally distant Peter Grimes at Oper Köln

By Cristina Burack, 28 November 2018

Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is a nuanced, gripping tale that should pack an emotional punch. Despite fine moments, Oper Köln's production didn't serve the work.

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Cologne

30 Nov 2018

An emotionally distant Peter Grimes at Oper Köln

By Cristina Burack

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Milan

La finta giardiniera: Mozart’s early masterpiece charms at La Scala

By Laura Servidei, 20 October 2018

Diego Fasolis leads a period performance of Mozart’s early masterpiece with a strong cast and a clever production.

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Milan

22 Oct 2018

Mozart’s early masterpiece charms at La Scala

By Laura Servidei

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Milan

A vaudevillian Le nozze di Figaro from Frederic Wake-Walker at La Scala

By Renato Verga, 26 October 2016

At La Scala, Milan a disappointing tribute to Giorgio Strehler's historic staging of The Marriage of Figaro by young English director Frederic Wake-Walker.

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Milan

28 Oct 2016

A vaudevillian Figaro at La Scala

By Renato Verga

Glyndebourne

Smashing fun for all: Glyndeboune on Tour's La finta giardiniera

By David Karlin, 05 October 2014

La finta giardiniera isn't one of Mozart's greatest operas. But this is about as good a production of it as I can imagine and makes for a deliciously light-hearted evening.

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Glyndebourne

06 Oct 2014

La finta giardiniera: Smashing fun for all

By David Karlin

London

The Opera Group: Bow Down

By Paul Kilbey, 13 June 2012

Two sisters, a knight, a miller, and a blind harpist. Such is the cast of Tony Harrison and Harrison Birtwistle's Bow Down, their 1977 music-theatre piece currently being toured around the UK by The Opera Group. It's an elemental, mythic piece, but also a testament to the endless capacity for novelty that old, grim folk tales like this have.

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London

14 Jun 2012

The Opera Group: Bow Down

By Paul Kilbey