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Handel: Alcina
Stefano Montanari; Johanna Wehner; Bavarian State Opera; Benjamin Schönecker; Ellen Hofmann; Bayerisches Staatsorchester; Saskia Kruse
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Handel: Semele
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Michael Levine; Gesine Völlm; Michael Bauer; Bayerisches Staatsorchester
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Handel: Israel in Egypt
Hervé Niquet; Thaïs Raï-Westphal; Mélissa Petit; Avery Amereau; Rupert Charlesworth
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Handel: Hercules
David Stern; Opera Fuoco; Chœur de chambre de Namur; Edwin Crossley-Mercer; Avery Amereau
LondonHerculesNew production
Handel: Hercules
Laurence Cummings; Barrie Kosky; The Royal Opera; Katrin Lea Tag; Joachim Klein; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago
The Austrian conductor's loudest fortes and softest pianos pull together a dramatic arc from the Requiem, other Mozart works and chant. But it's not really a funeral.
Ensemble Jupiter end European tour of Handel’s Theodora in Brussels
Projection proves a problem for the singers, but this Theodora at BOZAR is nevertheless full of musical and spiritual beauty.
Everlasting Everding: another beautiful Munich Zauberflöte revival
August Everding’s Magic Flute is revived in Munich with a solid cast for the enjoyment of all ages.
Soaring orchestral themes, minimalist staging: Eugene Onegin
The Royal Opera's season opener is a welcome return for Tchaikovsky's opera after nine years, and a house debut for American director Ted Huffman.
All play and no work: an exuberant Figaro in Munich
Evgeny Titov's new production is heavy on the jokes and light in substance, but delights anyway thanks to its high-class cast.
Prescient then, terrifying now: The Handmaid’s Tale at ENO
Margaret Atwood’s dystopic novel, masterfully adapted for the operatic stage, is strongly performed at ENO and rings even truer today than it did when it was written.