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LondonLa bohème
Puccini: La bohème
Russell Keable; Monica McGhee; Hazel McBain; Nico Darmanin; Nicholas Morris
AmsterdamLa clemenza di TitoNew Production
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Teodor Currentzis; Peter Sellars; Dutch National Opera; George Tsypin; Robby Duiveman; Russell Thomas; Ekaterina Scherbachenko
MunichAus einem TotenhausNew Production
Janáček: From the House of the Dead
Simone Young; Frank Castorf; Bavarian State Opera; Aleksandar Denić; Adriana Braga Peretzki; Evgeniya Sotnikova; Manuel Günther
GlyndebourneMadama ButterflyNew production
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Omer Meir Wellber; Annilese Miskimmon; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Benjamin Glassberg; Nicky Shaw; Olga Busuioc
LeedsKiss me, Kate
Porter: Kiss me, Kate
James Holmes; Jo Davies; Opera North; Oliver Rundell; Colin Richmond; Quirijn de Lang
TokyoFidelioNew Production
Beethoven: Fidelio
Taijiro Iimori; Katharina Wagner; New National Theatre; Julius Semmelmann; Thomas Kaiser; Stephen Gould; Hiroshi Kuroda
ExeterIl tabarro & Gianni Schicchi
Puccini
Michael Rosewell; James Conway; English Touring Opera; Neil Irish; Craig Smith; Sarah-Jane Lewis; Charne Rochford
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Tears on the picnic lawn: Madama Butterfly at Glyndebourne
After dipping its toe in the cherry blossom for Glyndebourne's Tour in 2016, Annilese Miskimmon's staging of Puccini's gut-wrencher hits the main festival.
A religious experience at Prague Spring
Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Baroque specialists continue their crusade to bring Bach's church cantatas to the modern world.
Alexander Balus: a wonderful performance
Why is Handel's wonderful oratorio Alexander Balus so rarely performed? A performance at Herzfeld am Harz, as part of the Göttingen Handel festival, was musically splendid, despite cuts.
Thunder and lightning put an end to love in Komische Oper’s Semele
Handel’s Semele is presented as a flashback at the Komische Oper in Berlin.
Eyvazov a magnificent Cavardossi in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Orchestra's superb semi-staged production of Tosca.
A beautiful but infuriating Clemenza in Amsterdam
The transfer of last year's Clemenza di Tito from Salzburg delights and irritates in equal measure.
A visually stunning Aida at Seattle Opera
Francesca Zambello's hip-hop graffiti staging of Aida comes to Seattle.
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