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Aix-en-ProvenceDie ZauberflöteNew production
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
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Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero played in 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.
Operetta with teeth: Offenbach’s La Périchole at the TCE
Laurent Pelly’s new production combines froth and hilarity with a dark, satirical heart; Marc Minkowski and the orchestra seduce us.
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.
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.
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.
Le beau classicisme d’Agnès Jaoui pour Don Giovanni au Capitole
La nouvelle production toulousaine relève bien des défis, des débuts d'Agnès Jaoui dans une grande maison d’opéra jusqu'aux premiers pas en France d'un tout jeune chef de 25 ans...
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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