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Blissful and hard-boiled: I Capuleti e i Montecchi at ETO

Brenton Spiteri (Tebaldo) and Samantha Price (Romeo) © Richard Hubert Smith
Eloise Lally shifts the Romeo and Juliet love story into New York mafia families. Jessica Cale and Samantha Price provide blissful bel canto as the star-crossed lovers.
****1
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ETO opens spring tour with an off-the-wall Manon Lescaut

Jenny Stafford (Manon) and Aiden Edwards (Lescaut) © Richard Hubert Smith
Jude Christian's indulgent reinvention of Puccini's opera does not serve English Touring Opera well as it embarks on its spring tour. 
**111
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ETO's new Il viaggio a Reims is a long journey

Il viaggio a Reims © Richard Hubert Smith
A Rossini comedy should sparkle, but this new production, starting its tour from Hackney, is decidedly lacking bubbles.
**111
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The Poisoner’s Dilemma: ETO presents a dramatic Lucrezia Borgia

Paula Sides (Lucrezia) and Aidan Edwards (Alfonso) © Richard Hubert Smith
Donizetti’s tale of one the Italian Renaissance’s objects of hate is well sung and superbly acted in ETO's new spring tour production.
****1
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Britten's Canticles awakened at Sydney Chamber Opera

Awakening Shadow © Zan Wimberley
Luke Styles' interludes to the Canticles may not set the musical world alight in Awakening Shadow, but they provide the perfect excuse to perform Britten's remarkable works.
****1
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Fabulous musical performance of Athalia in Sydney

Handel's Athalia is a wonderful English oratorio but this production, while musically wonderful, was marred by a problematic staging with infuriating surtitles.
***11
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