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This year’s NTR ZaterdagMatinee concert series in Amsterdam kicked off with a Boris Godunov that left nothing to be desired.

Philip Glass finds a new simplicity in an impressive première production of The Trial from Music Theatre Wales. 

Music Theatre Wales’ production of Salvatore Sciarrino’s The Killing Flower begins in darkness. Michael McCarthy’s highly stylized production fits with the music, which is a fitting interpretation of extreme emotions: love that knows no control and no reason.

New opera at the Edinburgh Traverse is becoming an exciting annual date not to be missed. Music Theatre Wales made a return visit with In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass after their successful presentation of Letters of Love Betrayed in 2009. Before that, Lyall Creswell’s Good Angel, Bad Angel set a very high standard.