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A stylish Così fan tutte at The Grange Festival
Entertainment ideal for country house opera-goers, enhanced by some fine singing and excellent playing from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Cavalli's Il Xerse as farce in Martina Franca
Leo Muscato directs an operatic rarity at the Festival Valle d'Itria, with Federico Maria Sardelli leading Orchestra Barocca Modo Antiquo.
Handel's pasticcio Oreste in Bernburg at Halle Handel Festival
A staged performance of Handel’s pasticcio opera Oreste shows a strong narrative structure and provides a vehicle for promising young singers.
Slaughter on Tauris: Handel's Oreste
Kay Link's new production of Handel's pasticcio Oreste is surprisingly strong theatrically, often musically too.
Casella's rarely performed La donna serpente in Martina Franca
The Festival della Valle d'Itria opened with a 20th century opera of some musical value, but of much more historical and philological interest for scholars.
Calixto Bieito's überirdischer Elias am Theater an der Wien
Christian Gerhaher erbringt als Elias in Karohemd und Cargohose eine göttliche Leistung.