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A feast for the eyes and ears: Lehár’s Merry Widow in Zurich

Michael Volle (Count Danilo Danilowitsch) and Marlis Petersen (Hanna Glawari) © Monika Rittershaus
Barrie Kosky stages the famous Viennese operetta as a whirlwind spectacle. Marlis Petersen shines in the title role vocally and theatrically. Michael Volle does not live up to expectations.
****1
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Werther in the sky at Opernhaus Zürich

Benjamin Bernheim (Werther) © Toni Suter

Benjamin Bernheim leads a very good cast in a revival of Tatjana Gürbaca's interesting 2017 production. 

***11
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Cecilia Bartoli does it again: an effervescent Cenerentola in Zurich

Lawrence Brownlee (Ramiro) and Cecilia Bartoli (Angelina) © Monika Rittershaus (2015)

The Opernhaus Zürich presents yet another Cenerentola with Cecilia Bartoli in the title role, surrounded by a great cast, with the support of the period orchestra La Scintilla, under Gianluca Capuano's knowledgeable baton.

****1
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Tatyana in the meadow: Barrie Kosky’s Onegin returns to Zurich

Eugene Onegin © Monika Rittershaus (2017)

The Opernhaus Zürich revives a successful production by Barrie Kosky with a great cast under Gianandrea Noseda's baton.

****1
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Cherubino steals the show in Zurich’s Le nozze di Figaro

Morgan Pearse (Figaro) © Herwig Prammer

The Opernhaus Zurich revives Jan Philipp Gloger’s production, for a performance with mixed results: a solid cast of singers under Christoph König’s heavy baton.

**111
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L’italiana arrives in Zurich from Salzburg on a dromedary’s back

Opernhaus Zürich presents a Salzburg Festival production of Rossini’s first masterpiece, with a stellar cast and an orchestra on original instruments, under the baton of Gianluca Capuano.

*****
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