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Rossini: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Speranza Scappucci; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro di San Carlo; Paolo Fantin; Agostino Cavalca; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo
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Calixto Bieito’s Zelmira opens the Rossini Opera Festival

Anastasia Bartoli (Zelmira) © Amati Bacciardi

A production where vocal brilliance battles directorial gimmicks in Pesaro, with a superb cast led by Anastasia Bartoli and Lawrence Brownlee.

***11
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A rollicking Wild West Elisir in Dublin that hits all the right notes

Duke Kim (Nemorino) and Claudia Boyle (Adina) © Ros Kavanagh
Donizetti heads West in Cal McCrystal's riotous, laugh-out-loud L'elisir d’amore, where dazzling singing meets cowboy capers in a gloriously zany production for Irish National Opera. 
*****
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In its Royal Opera House debut, Irish National Opera's high-energy Bajazet provides a great evening for Baroque fans and sceptics alike.
****1
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A successful new production of the maestro’s opera buffaat the Rossini Opera Festival with a solid cast led by Marina Monzó.  
****1
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A frivolous La pietra del paragone in Pesaro

The young tenor Maxim Mironov, who played the poet Giocondo, was the name on everyone's lips by the end of the show. His voice is a modestly-sized and soft-grained, but it is beautifully produced, and focuses to a laser-like point up top.
****1
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