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EdinburghVerdi’s A Masked Ball
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Gianandrea Noseda; Adele Thomas; Zurich Opera; Hannah Clark; Franck Evin; Zurich Opera Chorus
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A dark and disturbing Rigoletto from WNO at the Mayflower
Fine performances in a punchy new production that coats this tragic opera in a large dollop of debauchery.
Joélle Harvey is outstanding in Glyndebourne's incendiary Semele
Adele Thomas makes a good case for Semele's operatic credentials in her production which makes effective nods towards Baroque opera’s devotion to spectacle.
Barton’s Azucena drags Trovatore from the flames
Adele Thomas’ Royal Opera staging channels the Marx Brothers in playing it for laughs, but the musical compensations are many under Sir Antonio Pappano.
In the Realms of Sorrow: Handel cantatas in the round
Director Adele Thomas can do no wrong, sustaining her extraordinary run of fizz with this unlikely concatenation of four Handel cantatas at Stone Nest.
Il trovatore as gothic, medieval fairy tale in Zurich
Gianandrea Noseda takes his post as general music director at the Opernhaus Zurich leading a great cast in Adele Thomas' successful new production.
A live audience returns to Covent Garden
Christine Rice gives an astonishingly performance in an evening of four powerful chamber pieces.