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Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Daniele Gatti; Mariangela Sicilia; Eleonora Filipponi; Bernard Richter; Jongmin Park
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Romeo Castellucci directs a new Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala
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The Italian director makes his long-awaited Italian operatic debut at the Teatro alla Scala in a production which perfectly mirrors Debussy’s most enigmatic creation.
An Idomeneo shattered to pieces at the Wiener Staatsoper
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A committed cast struggles to lend a spark of life to Kasper Holten's static staging of Mozart's first mature opera.
Unseduced: Don Giovanni opens the Budapest Festival Orchestra season
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Iván Fischer's reworking of his 2017 production of Don Giovanni is musically capable, but dramatically unconvincing.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presents Idomeneo as a confused ballet in Geneva
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The Grand Théâtre de Genève presents a new production of Mozart’s opera seria where the focus is all on dancing and rope twirling. Nevertheless, a good cast, led by Federica Lombardi as Elettra, manages to shine through.
Celebrating La Scala: Robert Carsen’s Don Giovanni returns
Robert Carsen’s imaginative 2011 production of Mozart’s masterpiece is revived in Milan with an excellent cast led by Christopher Maltman.
McVicar's Magic Flute staging revived at the Royal Opera House
Unlike many Flutes, David McVicar's 2003 production treats Mozart's score as a proper opera, albeit with romp instead of pomp.