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GstaadTosca – Gstaad Festival Orchestra IVSemi-staged performance
Puccini: Tosca
Domingo Hindoyan; Gstaad Festival Orchestra; Choir of Konzert Theater Bern; Sonya Yoncheva; Riccardo Massi
HamburgTosca
Puccini: Tosca
Paolo Arrivabeni; Robert Carsen; Staatsoper Hamburg; Stefano Ranzani; Anthony Ward; Davy Cunningham
ViennaCarmen
Bizet: Carmen
Alexander Soddy; Calixto Bieito; Vienna State Opera; Alfons Flores; Mercè Paloma; Alberto Rodríguez Vega; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
HamburgLes Contes d'Hoffmann
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Kent Nagano; Daniele Finzi Pasca; Staatsoper Hamburg; Hugo Gargiulo; Giovanna Buzzi; Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
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BarcelonaMacbethNew production
Verdi: Macbeth
Josep Pons; Jaume Plensa; Gran Teatre del Liceu; Urs Schönebaum; Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu
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Unimpeachable voices and fine playing light up The Royal Opera's latest revival of Kasper Holten's dark staging.
Highway to Hell: Don Giovanni returns to Covent Garden
Kasper Holten's psychological take on the louche lothario remains controversial, but in its third revival, Erwin Schrott's powerful assumption of the title role is a delight.
Faust finds salvation thanks to jump-in soprano
A devilishly fun performance of Gounod's take on Goethe, saved when Mandy Fredrich flew in at short notice to take over the role of Marguerite.
A superb, sinister Hoffmann at Dutch National Opera
Selectively unearthed from current critical editions, this fabulously performed new Hoffmann plumbs the murky depths of its antihero’s psyche.