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A psychological Turandot in Ann Yee's Opera Australia staging

Rebecca Nash (Turandot) © Keith Saunders
Opera Australia's new Turandot succeeds with musical, dramatic and visual values with a mix of local and imported talent. 
****1
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French flair, American-style: Cracknell's Carmen returns to the Met

Clémentine Margaine (Carmen) and Michael Fabiano (Don José) © Nina Wurtzel | Met Opera
An excellent cast led by Clémentine Margaine livens up the first revival of Carrie Cracknell's all-American Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera. 
****1
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Aigul Akhmetshina leads powerhouse cast in the Met’s new Carmen

Rafael Davila (Don José) and Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen) © Ken Howard | Met Opera

Carrie Cracknell’s modernized take on Bizet’s 1875 iconic opera moves the action from early 19th-century Spain to a 21st-century American industrial town.

****1
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Semyon Bychkov leads a musically superior Rusalka at Covent Garden

Asmik Grigorian (Rusalka) © ROH | Camilla Greenwell
Ann Yee and Natalie Abrahami give Rusalka an ecological reading, but it's the musical side of things that really takes flight in The Royal Opera's new production.
****1
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Inspiration eludes Kramer in Britten's War Requiem at ENO

The music’s explosions of volume have an open-throated magnificence.
***11
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Un Don Giovanni en PLS pour l’ouverture du Festival d’Aix

Don Giovanni au Festival d'Aix-en-Provence © Monika Rittershaus
La mise en scène de Robert Icke est une cruelle déception, pas compensée par les qualités de la distribution et de la direction musicale de Simon Rattle.
**111
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