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Artistic Director Rosetta Cucchi makes a compelling case for Marco Tutino's impassioned opera on the horrors of war from a woman's perspective. 

Lindy Hume's new production works reasonably well in allowing the story to be told with sufficient emotional weight.

With an excellent cast and sumptuous orchestral playing, Oper Leipzig delivers a vivid evening of enjoyment.

Balázs Kovalik's new dystopian Turandot is musically rousing but let down by a production that's more 1970s TV series than slick modern sci-fi. 

A revival of a verismo rarity: Umberto Giordano's La cene delle beffe at La Scala. 

Torre del Lago is the quintessential setting for Madama Butterfly. The backdrop to the open-air theatre could easily be the gentle hills and bay of Cio-Cio San's own Nagasaki.

À l'Opéra de Leipzig, décors, lumières, costumes et orchestre prodigieux du Gewandhaus ont constitué un superbe écrin, enveloppant solistes et chœurs d'une Carmen très applaudie.