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Musically and emotionally, this Traviata mostly ran on a low flame, yet Maria Bayankina convinced as Violetta.

A rare chance to see Berlioz's five act epic Les Troyens. Huge Russian forces from the Mariinsky Opera under Valery Gergiev visit the Edinburgh Festival. 

Even the best opera glasses would be no match for the intensity of this close-up introspection: a new production of Borodin's Prince Igor is playing at the Met.

Interpretación vertiginosa y febril de la Novena de Beethoven, con una dirección de Gergiev profundamente caprichosa y un Orfeón sobresaliente.