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GlyndebourneL’OrfeoNew production

Krystian Adam (Orfeo) and ensemble © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd | Photo: Richard Hubert Smith
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318
Jonathan Cohen; William Kentridge; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Sabine Theunissen; Greta Goiris; Urs Schönebaum; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

ViennaRosmiraConcert performance

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Vivaldi: Rosmira, RV 731
Ottavio Dantone; Accademia Bizantina; Sophie Rennert; Delphine Galou; Maayan Licht
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L’Orfeo, the world’s first great opera, premieres at Glyndebourne

Krystian Adam (Orfeo) and ensemble © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd | Photo: Richard Hubert Smith
One element of the Orpheus myth is about creativity, so at Glyndebourne, William Kentridge sets Monteverdi’s opera in an artist's studio, 
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La clemenza di Tito at La Fenice: splendid score, sterile stage

Anastasia Bartoli (Vitellia) and Cecilia Molinari (Sesto) © Michele Crosera

Ivor Bolton leads a great cast in a superb musical production of Mozart’s last masterpiece, in a lukewarm new production by Paul Curran.

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Klaus Florian Vogt a successful Siegfried at La Scala

Klaus Florian Vogt (Siegfried) and Camilla Nylund (Brünnhilde) © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

McVicar’s most successful Ring chapter yet: Siegfried convinces with beautiful imagery and a stellar cast, with Alexander Soddy at the baton.

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Li zite 'ngalera at La Scala: galley trip of the newlyweds

Li zite 'ngalera © Brescia & Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
The singer-actors of this lively Neapolitan opera are entangled in a farcical plot in the Teatro alla Scala's revival of the genre.
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Flailing capes, plumed helmets, Baroque machinery: Pizzi's Rinaldo!

Federico Maria Sardelli conducts an historic production of Handel’s first Italian opera for London with energy and Baroque spirit. Teresa Iervolino takes the leading role in a convincing cast.
****1
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Operatic magic: Ercole Amante at the Opéra Comique

Nahuel di Pierro (Hercule) © S. Brion
Voices, orchestra staging: everything in this Ercole Amante is light and magic, to the great delight of the Salle Favart audience.
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