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Performer: Clay Hilley

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LondonMahler’s ‘Song of the Earth’

BBC Proms
El-Turk, Haydn, Mahler
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Anja Bihlmaier; Jamie Barton; Clay Hilley

MunichParsifal

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Wagner: Parsifal
Pablo Heras-Casado; Pierre Audi; Bavarian State Opera; Georg Baselitz; Florence von Gerkan; Urs Schönebaum; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

MadridWagner - Tannhäuser

© Manuel Alcorlo
Wagner: Tannhäuser
Gustavo Gimeno; David Hermann; Teatro Real; Jo Schramm; Bettina Walter; Fabrice Kebour; Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

MontrealMagnificent Mahler : An Epic Season Opener

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Mahler
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal; Rafael Payare; Miah Persson; Rose Naggar-Tremblay; Clay Hilley; Matthias Goerne

New York CitySamson et Dalila

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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
Giacomo Sagripanti; Darko Tresnjak; Metropolitan Opera; Alexander Dodge; Linda Cho; Donald Holder; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

TorontoAriadne auf NaxosNew production

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Strauss R.: Ariadne auf Naxos
Johannes Debus; Paul Curran; Canadian Opera Company; Gary McCann; Howard Hudson; Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
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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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Thalheimer’s directs a static new Berlin Tristan und Isolde

Elisabeth Teige (Isolde) © Bernd Uhlig
At the start of his farewell to Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles shines with his orchestra, supplying the passion and tension withheld in Michael Thalheimer’s production.
****1
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Upstairs, downstairs: Die Frau ohne Schatten at Deutsche Oper

Die Frau ohne Schatten © Matthias Baus
Tobias Kratzer gives his third Strauss production in three seasons at Deutsche Oper Berlin another contemporary spin. 
****1
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Canadian Opera Company opens season with a Fidelio for our time

Miina-Liisa Värelä (Leonore) © Michael Cooper
A massive rotating cube, CCTV, an immigrants’ detention centre: Fidelio returns to the Toronto stage with a visually arresting production full of contemporary resonances. 
***11
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A meditation on cruelty: Warner‘s new ROH Wozzeck

Sam Furness (Andres) and Christian Gerhaher (Wozzeck) © ROH | Tristram Kenton
A potent rendering of Alban Berg's tale of the traumatised and impoverished war veteran.
*****
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Bard Musical Festival presents a thrilling Die tote Stadt

American singers Clay Hilley and Sara Jakubiak offered performances of distinction in two fiendishly difficult roles.
****1
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