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A complex plot with great music and great theatre where Strauss showcases his compositional mastery.

ROF presents the first, immature effort of the composer in the successful production by Davide Livermore, with a solid cast led by Jessica Pratt.

The Donizetti Opera Festival presents a rarity with a good cast of bel canto specialists in a somewhat disappointing production.

La Fenice presents Rossini’s monumental farewell to Italy and to 18th-century tradition in Ligorio’s elegant new production with a superb cast.

With her signature role’s coloratura fireworks and dramatic nuance, Jessica Pratt’s Sydney Opera House debut is one to remember.

Daniela Barcellona and Jessica Pratt lead a strong cast in an emotional and elegant performance of the first opera seria by Rossini under the expert baton of Roberto Abbado. 

In Donizetti's home town, a rare outing for one of the composer's long-forgotten operas. 

In a staging new to Florence, the action is often merely a set of friezes, singers immobilised on a pair of moving plinths. 

The role of Elvira in Bellini's I puritani requires every weapon in the bel canto soprano's armoury: Jessica Pratt has it all!

Lucia di Lammermoor is presented in Perú in a minimalist, highly stylized production, starring Jessica Pratt in the title role. 

Laurent Pelly's production of Giulio Cesare is a play of references to antiquity, heroism and myth. However, it does not thrill. 

Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor is a coloratura soprano vehicle and this season’s Dutch National Opera production felicitously starred Jessica Pratt, an internationally celebrated Lucia and a favourite of the Italian public.

This unadorned staging of the doomed love story between Rodolfo and Mimì in Salerno doesn’t neglect the veracity and passion of Puccini’s beautiful music.

Georges Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, written some ten years before Carmen, does not enjoy as much recognition as the latter opera. Composed at the age of 25, the opera received harsh criticism from many contemporary critics, although not from Hector Berlioz, who clearly recognised something of Bizet's genius in the work.

I've commented before about Die Zauberflöte that if you get the music right, the rest will follow. In the first night of the Royal Opera's latest revival of David MacVicar's 2003 production, Sir Colin Davis definitely got the music right.

Sans-faute à l'Opéra de Marseille : des deux rôles principaux aux derniers pupitres de l'orchestre, la version concert de l'opéra de Bellini est une réussite totale.

Opéra dans l'opéra, la nouvelle production des Contes d'Hoffmann mise en scène par Vincent Huguet ouvre la saison de l'Opéra de Bordeaux avec un succès.

El Gran Teatre del Liceu presenta la magnífica producción de Mario Gas de L'elisir d'amore. Ramón Tebar en la dirección musical llevó con brío la orquesta y el cuarteto protagonista se ganó al público en esta hilarante historia.

Triomphale Semiramide à l'Opéra de Marseille. Rossini servi par une distribution exceptionnelle qui honore l'art du « beau chant ».