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Performer: Alix Le Saux

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Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero played in Lausanne

I Gemelli in rehearsal © Courtesy of I Gemelli and Opéra de Lausanne

A semi-staged production of Francesca Caccini's sole surviving opera is brought to life in Lausanne, featuring an outstanding cast of specialists in early music.

****1
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Operetta with teeth: Offenbach’s La Périchole at the TCE

La Périchole Act 1 © Vincent Pontet
Laurent Pelly’s new production combines froth and hilarity with a dark, satirical heart; Marc Minkowski and the orchestra seduce us.
****1
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Dido and Aeneas reworked as performance art

Though ambitious and occasionally arresting, this revised and expanded take on the Purcell classic suffers from subtraction by addition.
**111
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How to stage magic: Glyndebourne's Rusalka

A welcome return to the Glyndebourne Festival for Melly Still's staging, which brings out the full emotional range of Dvořák’s fairytale of denial, heartbreak and forgiveness.
****1
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Overwrought and over-thought: Cendrillon

In her anxiety to be ‘new’, Shaw slaps a sackload of semi-comprehensible ideas onto a sort-of present day update.
***11
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Flûte ! García-Alarcón et Cogitore ratent l'ouverture à Aix

La Flûte enchantée mise en scène par Clément Cogitore à Aix © Jean-Louis Fernandez
Le tandem qui avait tant réussi ses Indes galantes à Bastille se prend les pieds dans le tapis d'un projet à la fois trop austère musicalement et bâclé sur le plan du projet scénique.
**111
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ParisManon

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Massenet: Manon
Dan Ettinger; Vincent Huguet; Opéra national de Paris; Aurélie Maestre; Clémence Pernoud; Bertrand Couderc; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

Aix-en-ProvenceDie ZauberflöteNew production

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Clément Cogitore; Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; Alban Ho Van; Wojciech Dziedzic; Sylvain Verdet; Cappella Mediterranea