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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.

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.

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 ».