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Second Elizabethan age receives a noble tribute in ENO's Gloriana

Paula Murrihy (Frances) and Christine Rice (Elizabeth I) © Nirah Sanghani
When done as well as this, a "concert staging" is not oxymoronic, but a precise term for a valuable mode of presentation.
****1
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Amazing Breaking the Waves: Scottish Opera at the Adelaide Festival

Breaking the Waves is a remarkable opera. Scottish Opera has brought a thrilling cast, orchestra and team to Adelaide, and its audiences are all the richer for it.

*****
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Mazzoli’s luminous Breaking the Waves receives European premiere

Sydney Mancasola gives a towering performance in Scottish Opera's new production by Tom Morris.

****1
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A lip-smacking Hansel and Gretel at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Mezzo-soprano Rachel Kelly and soprano Susanna Hurrell were the eponymous pair and, my, how they chewed the scenery.
****1
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Billy Budd finally drops anchor again at The Royal Opera

After nearly two decades away from the Covent Garden stage, it was time Britten's Billy Budd came home, in a new production from Madrid by Deborah Warner. 
****1
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Russian pyrotechnics and robust Anglican religion

Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D enjoys a rare outing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins. 
****1
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