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Four superstars deliver dramatic moments in this revival of Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired staging of Verdi’s melodrama. 

Jamie Barton sings Mahler's Rückert-Lieder and a UK premiere for Julius Eastman's Second Symphony, a final love letter. 

Adele Thomas’ Royal Opera staging channels the Marx Brothers in playing it for laughs, but the musical compensations are many under Sir Antonio Pappano.

Bayrischer Staatsoper’s revival of Warlikowski’s static production of Tristan und Isolde featured a sensational role debut of Elena Pankratova as Isolde.

John Dexter's production, now among the longest-serving in the company's repertory, remains a marvel of simple, effective storytelling.

Elgar's oratorio is treated as a rousing evening’s entertainment rather than an offshoot of the Catholic liturgy, with three stellar soloists. 

The Metropolitan Opera performs the original French version of Don Carlos for the first time with a distinguished ensemble of soloists, but the static production offers no new insights into the depth of Verdi's masterpiece.

The Festival d'Aix-en-Provence gives us a definitive performance of Wagner's opera – but for listening only.

Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton seemed to have a lot of fun taking up the role of Julia Child once again. 

Jamie Barton and Kathleen Kelly offer a thought-provoking meditation on women as they are portrayed and as they portray themselves.

Jamie Barton's rich, mellifluous mezzo is ideal for singing Orfeo.

Both vocally and instrumentally the performance  was a high-class one

Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking is credited as being the most performed 21st-century opera, and with good reason.

Perhaps feeling that the drama and emotion of the Ring Cycle wasn't enough for one year, Antonio Pappano assembled a strong quartet and deployed the ROH's forces in a powerful, moving performance of Verdi's Messa da Requiem.

The world is gloriously redeemed in the gripping final installment of San Francisco Opera's Ring cycle.

San Francisco Opera's Die Walküre overcame a disappointing first act, winning the audience over with excellent singing and playing and impressive stage effects.

At San Francisco Opera, conductor Donald Runnicles and a top-notch cast deliver a delicious Rheingold in Francesca Zambello's colorful production.

The team of soloists, the chorus and the orchestra, under the baton of Philippe Auguin, powerfully conveyed the spectacular qualities of Verdi's Don Carlo.

The winter revival of the Met’s opening night Norma brought a new conductor and new stars in the main two female roles.

It was fitting that Marin Alsop – Bernstein’s protégé in his final years – should pair Mahler and Bernstein symphonies for this second LSO concert marking his centenary.

Jamie Barton stole the show in a lacklustre concert performance in Madrid.

Alan Gilbert reaches a pinnacle at the end of his tenure at the New York Philarmonic.

The Metropolitan Opera's new produdtion of Rusalka fails to explore a deeper complexity of the fairy tale, although a strong ensemble of singers and the superb Met Orchestra make it a musically compelling performance.

Elijah Moshinsky’s 15-year old production of Verdi’s Nabucco has returned to the Met, ostensibly as a vehicle for Placido Domingo.

The summer’s extreme heat and lack of rain have created drought conditions in Atlanta. As fate would have it, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra this week programmed two works drenched with water, albeit of the salty variety.

Spine-tingling moments in the Toronto Symphony's Mahler Three under Peter Oundjian. 

Francesca Zambello stages a new production of Robert Ward's opera The Crucible at the Glimmerglass Festival in upstate New York. 

Liudmyla Monstyrska and John Relyea turn in strong performances and Plácido Domingo confirms his hallowed status, but Daniele Abbado's direction remains unappealing in this first revival.

Tonight’s Götterdämmerung brought the cycle to a fitting – and wholly American – conclusion. 

Angela Meade is the standout on opening night of Los Angeles Opera's Norma.

In Anna Bolena, Sondra Radvanovsky plays a queen who loses her crown. But she approaches a different coronation: as the first to play three of Donizetti's Tudor Queens at the Met.

Jamie Barton emerged as the star of the OAE/Marin Alsop's all-Brahms Prom, which included the first Proms performance of Brahms' Triumphlied.

To open its season, Seattle Opera presents its first-ever Nabucco in a production undermined by weak staging and uneven casting.

All five of the Houston Grand Opera’s performances of Die Walküre sold out immediately – more than 13,000 seats – and there are several good reasons why.

American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is the reason to see Anna Bolena, though the production provides plenty of other reasons to stay. 

San Francisco Opera opens its 92nd season with Bellini's Norma starring Sondra Radvanovsky as Norma and Jamie Barton as Adalgisa.

Britten's Spring Symphony and Ryan Wigglesworth's Locke's Theatre join with Rudolf Buchbinder's thrilling account of Rachmaninov's Rhapsody, all conducted, at short notice, by Brett Mitchell, Franz Welser-Möst's assistant.

On Friday, a new co-production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg opened at the Lyric. The only comedy among Wagner’s mature music dramas, its sound is very much like that of the better-known tragedies – brassy, overfull, with a core of strings teetering at vibrato’s edge.

The prefab riffs of computer programs like GarageBand aren’t entirely new. As shown by the musicologist Robert Gjerdingen, many 18th- and early 19th-century composers used pedagogical materials as a basis for their compositions, “composing out” passages in creative ways. But this method is not something the ordinary listener is supposed to recognize.

La production de 2008 donne lieu à une belle reprise sous la direction impeccable de Susanna Mälkki, avec une distribution dominée par Ben Bliss dans le rôle de Tom Rakewell.

Zu einem überwältigenden Erfolg wurde in München die Aufführung unter der Leitung von Simon Rattle, die das Symphonieorchester und der Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks seinem Publikum zum 75-jährigen Bestehen schenkten.

L'Everest de la musique symphonique a été gravi avec succès par des musiciens, des choristes et des solistes au sommet de leur forme, galvanisés par la direction inspirée et subtile de Daniel Harding.

Una noche que comenzó llena de excesos y defectos, pero creció hasta un desenlace redondo.

In einer packenden konzertanten Aufführung war Wagners Rheingold unter Yannick Nézet-Séguin vom Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra außergewöhnlich expressiv und mit exzellenten Sängerdarstellern in Baden-Baden zu erleben.