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MadridLa Dolores
Bretón: La Dolores
Guillermo García Calvo; Amelia Ochandiano; Teatro de la Zarzuela; Ricardo Sánchez Cuerda; Jesús Ruiz; Juan Gómez-Cornejo; Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid
PragueIl barbiere di SivigliaNew production
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Jaroslav Kyzlink; Magdalena Švecová; Prague National Theatre Opera; Jan Chalupecky; Marek Šedivý; David Janošek; Kateřina Štefková
LeedsTosca
Puccini: Tosca
Joana Carneiro; Edward Dick; Opera North; Tom Scutt; Fotini Dimou; Lee Curran; Orchestra of Opera North
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Bizet: Carmen
Tomáš Brauner; Grischa Asagaroff; Prague National Theatre Opera; Zbyněk Müller; Luigi Perego; Daniel Tesař
ZurichSalome
Strauss R.: Salome
Erik Nielsen; Andreas Homoki; Zurich Opera; Hartmut Meyer; Mechthild Seipel; Franck Evin; Philharmonia Zürich
PragueRigoletto
Verdi: Rigoletto
Vincenzo Milletarì; Barbora Horáková; Prague National Theatre Opera; Richard Hein; Sophia Schneider; Annemarie Bulla; Jan Dörner
MadridArabella
Strauss R.: Arabella
David Afkham; Christof Loy; Teatro Real; Jordi Francés; Herbert Murauer; Reinhard Traub
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Zest and spirit in Adams' Girls of the Golden West in Los Angeles
John Adams' opera, in its third revision since its 2017, receives an outstanding concert performance in Walt Disney Concert Hall under the composer's baton.
COC's sexed up Figaro: beautifully sung, creepily funny
The COC revival of its 2016 production of Le nozze di Figaro is still rooted in Claus Guth’s gloomy Scandinavia but it’s lightened up to become much sexier and funnier.
Tan Dun's Buddha Passion fails to provide enlightenment
Tan Dun conducts the LPO in the UK premiere of his Buddha Passion, hyped as “without precedent in the Western concert hall”.
Opera North revives its taut, terrific Tosca
The director Edward Dick and his designer, Tom Scutt, alternate between realistic and expressionistic images in their creation of grim spectacle.
The Cleveland Orchestra brings a holy Mass to Carnegie Hall
Franz Welser-Möst creatively fused Schubert's “Unfinished” Symphony with Berg's Lyric Suite, before leading an opulent performance of Mass no. 6 in E flat Major.
Stikhina and Smoriginas shine in Zurich Salome
A strong cast carries this satisfying revival of Andreas Homoki's production of Salome at Opernhaus Zürich.
Rattle and the LSO chill the soul in Kátya Kabanová
Amanda Majeski reprises her peerless Kátya, but Katarina Dalayman's flint-like characterisation as Kabanicha strikes the most sparks.
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Ancely, VirgileAntem, JanBallentine, FrederickBarberi, DominicBarea, TommasoBarron, JosephBařák, LukášBelosselskiy, DmitryBoesch, FlorianBoxer, AllenBrook, MatthewBrownlee, NicholasBrès, RenaudBuffière, GeoffroyBurton, DashonByung Gil KimCarl, SamCarroll, DarcyCedel, BrandonChamandy, BenjaminCheblykov, DmitryChervinsky, PavelCrawley, NicholasDahlmann, ThiloDavies, NealDawkins, TimothyDe Lisio, AntonioDebus, YannickDi Pierro, NahuelDohmen, AlbertDuus, SimonEdlin, TimothyEndong Kouosseu, MaurelEsposito, AlexFoster-Williams, AndrewGay, PaulGilfry, RodneyGilstrap, AndrewGiulianini, DanielGreen, Ryan SpeedoHambleton, TristanHayward, RobertHeld, AlanHorák, MilošHughes, EvanHäßler, MartinIvasechko, NikitaJanda, ArturJones, Emyr WynJuola, JussiJürgens, TorbenKarnolsky, NicolaiKataja, ArttuKehrer, TobiasKellett, MatthewKitagawa, TatsuhikoKitala, JaroslawKonieczny, TomaszKrinner, MichaelKálmán, PeterLagasca, EnricoLavoie, TomislavLeever, JasperLoges, StephanLécroart, MatthieuMalaba, BlaiseMargheri, GianlucaMarquardt, MarkusMatushevskyi, DemianMayer, FranzMcKinny, RyanMelnikas, IgnasMengus, RégisMertens, KlausMiroslaw, DanielMiškinis, Žilvinas SteponasMofidian, MichaelMokus, AttilaMollica, MatteoMolloy, JohnNewton, NicholasNikitin, EvgenyNolte, RaimundOkulitch, DanielOtsuka, HiroakiOtto, RolandOwens, EricPaterson, IainPikkarainen, JuhaPisaroni, LucaPlachetka, AdamPomakov, RobertPrýgl, BorisReiter, AlfredRelyea, JohnReuter, JohanRiches, AshleyRomeo, GiovanniRowan, PadraicSaks, GidonSarna, BartłomiejSchilperoort, BenjaminSchliewa, DanielSchmeckenbecher, JochenSchmutzhard, DanielSchrott, ErwinSchwartz, MarkusShenyangShort, KevinSlater, AndrewSly, PhilippeSmoriginas, KostasSpeer, Yorck FelixStiff, MatthewSumuel, MichaelSveda, RichardSándor, CsabaTBCTerfel, Sir BrynThorpe, CallumTikhomirov, AlexeyTines, DavóneUrbanowicz, BartoszVan Heyningen, ErikVan Horn, ChristianVoievodin, IhorWagner, JosefWalker, AlfredWeisser, JohannesWelton, DerekWhite, Sir WillardWong, ApolloWorms, GuilhemYoun, SamuelZemlianskikh, NikolayZeppenfeld, Georgde Damas, Thibaultde Lang, Quirijn