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Performer: Brindley Sherratt

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EdinburghMozart’s Don GiovanniConcert performance

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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Maxim Emelyanychev; Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus; Konstantin Krimmel; Michael Sumuel

LondonParsifalNew production

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Wagner: Parsifal
Jakub Hrůša; Evgeny Titov; The Royal Opera; Étienne Pluss; Esther Bialas; DM Wood; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

SalzburgRichard Wagner’s “Die Walküre”Concert performance

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Wagner: Die Walküre
Kirill Petrenko; Berliner Philharmoniker; Jamez McCorkle; Brindley Sherratt; Christopher Maltman

BerlinRichard Wagner’s “Die Walküre”Concert performance

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Wagner: Die Walküre
Kirill Petrenko; Berliner Philharmoniker; Jamez McCorkle; Brindley Sherratt; Christopher Maltman
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Wretches like us: the LPO’s concert Wozzeck cuts to the quick

Stéphane Degout © Pete Woodhead
Beautifully prepared singing and playing brings out the tender side to Berg's modernist classic as part of the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival. 
****1
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The starry trio of Davidsen-Hilley-Mälkki saves Tristan und Isolde

Lise Davidsen (Isolde) © Sergi Panizo | Gran Teatre del Liceu

A highly unbalanced premiere, its opportunity to become one of the Liceu's historic productions prevented by the contrast between dramaturgy and music.

****1
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Willis-Sørensen headlines a successful Arabella revival at the Met

Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Arabella) © Marty Sohl | Met Opera
The Metropolitan Opera revives Otto Schenk’s venerable staging of Strauss’s intimate melodrama. 
****1
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ENO, BBC join forces in stunning Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Amanda Majeski (Katerina Izmailova) © Andy Paradise
David Pountney's vernacular translation and Ruth Knight's vivid staging lent a thrilling immediacy to Shostakovich's chilling opera.
*****
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In Mears’ bleak Royal Opera Semele, Pretty Yende stands out

Pretty Yende (Semele) © The Royal Opera | Camilla Greenwell
Superb Handelian singing and intense character acting light up Handel’s Semele, staged as a stark, uncompromising indictment of the rich and powerful. 
****1
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Kunde leads Wiener Staatsoper’s shattering Billy Budd

Gregory Kunde (Captain Vere) © Wiener Staatsoper | Sofia Vargalová
At 70 years old, American tenor Gregory Kunde makes a magnificent role debut as Captain Vere, with a strong ensemble of singers, chorus, and orchestra in Willy Decker's effective production.
*****
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Aix-en-ProvenceDie ZauberflöteNew production

La Flûte enchantée mise en scène par Clément Cogitore à Aix © Jean-Louis Fernandez
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

BergenParsifal

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Wagner: Parsifal
Edward Gardner; Nicolai Riise; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Bergen Philharmonic Chorus; Stuart Skelton; Brindley Sherratt