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Stephen Barlow; Charles Edwards; Grange Park Opera; Gabrielle Dalton; Tim Mitchell; The Gascoigne Orchestra
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Massenet: Werther
Sir Antonio Pappano; Benoît Jacquot; The Royal Opera; Charles Edwards; Christian Gasc; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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Verdi: Il trovatore
Eun Sun Kim; Sir David McVicar; San Francisco Opera; Charles Edwards; Brigitte Reiffenstuel; Jennifer Tipton; San Francisco Opera Orchestra
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Sir David McVicar's new Trittico a triumph for Scottish Opera
Scottish Opera’s 60th birthday present proves a triumph, with outstanding singing from Karen Cargill, Sunyoung Seo, Viktor Antipenko and Roland Wood.
Guilty pleasures: Yoncheva stars in a new Fedora at the Met
There are plenty of vocal thrills in Sir David McVicar's new production of Giordano's revenge thriller at the Metropolitan Opera.
A fine showing for the 1884 Italian version of Don Carlo at the Met
A revival for Sir David McVicar's staging from last season, but this time reverting from French to the four-act Italian version, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.
A brilliant barrack room ballad: Otello at Grange Park Opera
Gwyn Hughes Jones, Elizabeth Llewellyn and Sir Simon Keenlyside star in David Alden's setting of Otello in a militarised Cyprus.
Musical excellence mired by stale production in the Met's Don Carlos
The Metropolitan Opera performs the original French version of Don Carlos for the first time with a distinguished ensemble of soloists, but the static production offers no new insights into the depth of Verdi's masterpiece.
La Calisto arrives at La Scala for the first time and triumphs
Cavalli's debut at La Scala is a triumph, earning applause that not even a Bohème or a Traviata can sometimes elicit.