Artiste: Victoria Newlyn

Presenting a work like Carmen is a punchy move by a conservatoire. The Royal Academy of Music's production has conceptual weaknesses, but features some good singing.

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Sacred and profane in Guildhall School's Respighi double bill

Yolisa Ngwexana (The Blue Fairy) © David Monteith-Hodge | Photographise

Susannah Moody, 06 nov.

From the spiritual conversion of a Medieval sex-worker, to the Sleeping Beauty tale reimagined, Guildhall stages a Respighi double-bill.

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Strauss à la Fellini: Ariadne auf Naxos at Opera North

Elizabeth Llewellyn (Ariadne) and Ric Furman (Bacchus) © Richard Hubert Smith

Richard Wilcocks, 18 févr.

Rodula Gaitanou sets Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's comedy in the Cinecittà film studios of the 1950s.

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Die Wahrheit liegt in der Musik: Dido and Aeneas an der Royal Academy

Rainer Zerbst, 27 mai

Ein ausdrucksstarkes Dirigat von Elizabeth Kenny und ein grandioses Sängerensemble beeindrucken in London.

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Food for thought: Birtwistle’s The Last Supper

David Smythe, 14 janv.

An excellent performance of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s The Last Supper receiving its Scottish première, with Roderick Williams and Susan Bickley heading a luxury cast.

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A cruel Così fan tutte at West Green House

Dominic Lowe, 30 juil.

Newlyn's updating of the opera to the Second World War was effective, while a superb Despina from Soraya Mafi gave the performance real fizz.

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