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Classic Robert Wilson: Turandot opens Canadian Opera Company season
Director Robert Wilson and conductor Carlo Rizzi combine effectively to create a visually striking and musically memorable Turandot that emphasizes the hieratic and the mythical with a notable absence of unnecessary histrionics.
Quality singing in a setting with novel accents at Glimmerglass
Francesca Zambello sets the whole opera as a flashback, showing, during the prelude, the heroine surrounded by doctors and nurses in a sanatorium for patients dying from tuberculosis.
“What a commotion!” A slapstick Finta giardiniera in Zurich
Zurich Opera stages Tatjana Gürbaca’s production of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera. True to the opera buffa genre, it teems with silliness.
Red dresses and a green balloon: Carmen in Philadelphia
Paul Curran's movie-Like Carmen for Opera Philadelphia
Donizetti rarity given American première at Glimmerglass
The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York always does themed seasons. This year the season was about the idea of home. As such, the production directed by Francesca Zambello was updated from the Middle Ages to a modern-day refugee camp.
La bohème: refiguring the old cliché
Zurich’s unexpected and original twists on Giacomo Puccini’s great opera was riddled with gimmickry.
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Ingo Metzmacher; Wajdi Mouawad; Opéra national de Paris; Emmanuel Clolus; Emmanuelle Thomas; Eric Champoux; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris