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ParisTurandot

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Puccini: Turandot
Eun Sun Kim; Robert Wilson; Opéra national de Paris; Stephanie Engeln; Jacques Reynaud; John Torres; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisDon GiovanniNew production

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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Finnegan Downie Dear; Louisa Proske; Opéra national de Paris; Stephanie Childress; Christof Hetzer; Kaye Voyce; Valerio Tiberi

MunichMazeppaNew production

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Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa
Daniele Rustioni; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Bavarian State Opera; Timur Zangiev; Elena Zaytseva; Gleb Filshtinsky

BerlinRigoletto

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Verdi: Rigoletto
Domingo Hindoyan; Bartlett Sher; Staatsoper Berlin; Michael Yeargan; Catherine Zuber; Donald Holder; Staatskapelle Berlin

ToulouseVerdi, Requiem / Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer, Orfeón Donostiarra

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem
José Antonio Sainz Alfaro; Le Cercle de l'Harmonie; Orfeón Donostiarra; Jérémie Rhorer; Axelle Fanyo
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Asmik Grigorian strengthens the Met’s revival of Eugene Onegin

Asmik Grigorian (Tatyana) and Iurii Samoilov (Onegin) © Evan Zimmerman | Met Opera

The Lithuanian soprano’s riveting performance as the central character in Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece lights up Deborah Warner’s mostly bland production.

****1
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A meta Norma in Naples turns Druid revolt into Italian insurrection

Anna Pirozzi (Norma) and chorus © Luciano Romano
When in doubt, stage the action in a theatre. Australian director Justin Way gets in the way of Bellini's Norma at the Teatro di San Carlo. 
***11
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Intuitive gifts: Stutzmann unlocks the secrets of late Bruckner

Nathalie Stutzmann © LSO | Mark Allan
The Ninth forms a satisfying sequel to the conductor's mastery of the Seventh, marked by rhythmic spring and sonic splendour. 
****1
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Vasily Barkhatov's car crash Turandot opens the season in Naples

Turandot © Luciano Romano
The Teatro di San Carlo opens its season with Vasily Barkhatov directing a Gen X mish-mash take on Puccini's final opera. 
***11
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Seeing double: Iolanta and The Nutcracker reunited

Vasily Petrenko © Andy Paradise
Tchaikovsky's final opera and ballet were always intended to be paired; at the Royal Albert Hall Petrenko and the RPO present them together in a rewarding double-bill, marred by microphones.
***11
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Staatsoper Hamburg's new Boris Godunov traverses Russian history

Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris Godunov) and the Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper © Brinkhoff | Mögenburg
Opening the new opera season, Kent Nagano powerfully directs Mussorgsky's great psychodrama about a famous tsar, marred only by Frank Castorf's visually confusing and symbolically overweighted production. 
****1
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ParisIolanta/Casse-NoisetteNew production

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Tchaikovsky
Alain Altinoglu; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Opéra national de Paris; Elena Zaytseva; Gleb Filshtinsky; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisLady Macbeth of Mtsensk

© Bernd Uhlig | Opéra national de Paris
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Ingo Metzmacher; Krzysztof Warlikowski; Opéra national de Paris; Małgorzata Szczęśniak; Felice Ross; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris