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A good Madama Butterfly from Hui He at The Met

Anthony Minghella's production remains a feast for the eyes, but this performance failed to gel into a dramatic whole.
“Endless pleasure” in Bicket's Semele at Carnegie Hall

A concert performance of Handel's not-quite-an-opera proves a hit on tour in New York.
Technicolor Clemenza at LA Opera

Any parallels between Rome in the first century under Emperor Titus and the United States two millennia later under Emperor Trump were lost in a Tinseltown graphic novel sweep.
Saluti da Roma as Pappano conducts Bernstein and Mahler

Sir Antonio Pappano and his Santa Cecilia Orchestra display their collective strengths in first symphonies by Bernstein and Mahler.
Tears on the picnic lawn: Madama Butterfly at Glyndebourne

After dipping its toe in the cherry blossom for Glyndebourne's Tour in 2016, Annilese Miskimmon's staging of Puccini's gut-wrencher hits the main festival.
A gaudy stand-and-sing Semiramide at the Met

Despite a great cast, the Metropolitan Opera's revival of Semiramide bores with tacky costumes and no direction.