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BarcelonaManon LescautNew production
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Emmanuel Villaume; Davide Livermore; Gran Teatre del Liceu; Giusi Giustino; Liudmyla Monastyrska; Gregory Kunde
SnappertunaWest Side Story
Bernstein: West Side Story
Patricia Borgman; Sixten Lundberg; Unknown; Petri Horttana; Vilma Eklöv
ManchesterThe Hallé - Magical Journeys
Zimmer, Horner, Gregson-Williams, Sherman, Bennett, Williams, Gregson
The Hallé; Stephen Bell; Hallé Children's Choir; Unknown
BerlinBluebeardNew Production
Offenbach: Barbe-bleue
Stefan Soltesz; Stefan Herheim; Komische Oper Berlin; Christof Hetzer; Esther Bialas; Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke; Peter Renz
LondonAriadne auf Naxos
Strauss R.: Ariadne auf Naxos
Brad Cohen; Antony McDonald; Opera Holland Park; Mardi Byers; Kor-Jan Dusseljee; Jennifer France
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A forlorn Manon Lescaut arrives in Barcelona
Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu stages Puccini’s first great success as an operatic composer, Manon Lescaut with the stage direction of Davide Livermore.
Truth and Wisdom: a searching Zauberflöte at Garsington
A twist on the usual Enlightenment path, this is an admirable production, excellently executed.
Tuckett's Elisabeth is revived at the Barbican
Tuckett's richly-integrated Elizabeth contains some superb performances but is often overwhelmed in this transition to a much larger space
On the female condition: two 20th-century operas in Turin
Two different variations of the female conditions: one of 1909 and now utterly out-of-date, the second of 1959 much more ut-to-date.
Glittering Candide: a celebration at Carnegie Hall
Candide is a witty satiric fable, intelligent, literary but not to a fault, and vastly entertaining. Created by a team of collaborators who fell out at different times in the work’s 52 year history – at one point or another, Lillian Hellman, Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Sondheim and, of course, composer Leonard Bernstein had a hand in it – it is unique in the operat
Disappointing Candide in Auckland
Though occasionally entertaining, this production was ultimately unsatisfying as a stage presentation of Bernstein’s work.
A boisterous romp at the Komische Oper
Stefan Herheim packs puns and gags into a three-hour long show, but less could have been more.
Performers
Armstrong, HugoArterton, GemmaBalluch, GerhardBrereton, OliviaBron, EleanorBruder, NicholasCake-Baly, MarceloClaydon, TimCsémy, BalázsDecker, JenniferEnchantment Theatre CompanyFrancke-Robitaille, LiliFrank, RüdigerFrantisek Kamen, DanielFrost, TimGedeck, MartinaHadorn, FabienneHallman, JeffHaumann, PéterHäntsch, WolfgangKálid, ArtúrLaasonen, TapioLahr, StefanLinshalm, ManuelaLucien, DidierMiró, Ciro GaelMock, SebastianMoltzen, PeterMonaghan, AaronMuntanyola, AlbertMácsai, PálNagy, Dániel ViktorPereira, AlexanderPhetterplace jr., JimPurkiss, BenjaminRadisch, TomRohrer, SylvieRougerie, LionelRudolph, SebastianSchäfer, JörgSimonischek, PeterSt-Martin, MarcSzalma, TamásTeichtmeister, FlorianThorn, StuartUnknownVogt, HenningVézina, AntoineWilson, LambertZiolkowska, Patryciavan Reigersberg, Ditovon Bock, Katharina