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TokyoPeter GrimesNew production

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Britten: Peter Grimes
Kazushi Ono; Robert Carsen; New National Theatre; Gideon Davey; Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

GenevaLes Noces de Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)New production

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Marta Gardolińska; Jetske Mijnssen; Grand Théâtre de Genève; Étienne Pluss; Gideon Davey; Fabrice Kebour; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
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Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Johanna Wallroth (Bellezza) and ensemble © Fabrizio Sansoni
Robert Carsen’s staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707. 
****1
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Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal

Daniel Johansson (Parsifal) and Kristina Stanek (Kundry) © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd | Photo: Richard Hubert Smith
Compelling singers carry the day in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's first staging of Wagner’s swansong. 
****1
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Cesti’s Orontea: an early rarity at La Scala

Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Orontea) and Mirco Palazzi (Creonte) © Vito Lorusso | Teatro alla Scala
Giovanni Antonini leads a splendid orchestral performance of Cesti’s masterpiece, featuring an outstanding cast headlined by Carlo Vistoli.
****1
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Opéra-Comique's Carmen brings high musical qualities to Edinburgh

Aliénor Feix (Mercédès), Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen) and Norma Nahoun (Frasquita) © Andrew Perry
Andreas Homoki's meta-staging in Paris' Opéra-Comique cannot detract from strong musical performances at the Edinburgh Festival, led by Gaëlle Arquez as a near-perfect Carmen.  
****1
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David Alden's Anna Bolena travels from Zurich to Berlin

Federica Lombardi (Anna Bolena) and Riccardo Fassi (Enrico VIII) © Bettina Stöß
Deutsche Oper Berlin presents an uninspiring production by David Alden, with a solid cast led by Federica Lombardi. 
***11
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Great Britten: a fine Peter Grimes at La Scala

Peter Grimes © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
La Scala presents a new production of Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece, with an excellent cast led by tenor Brandon Jovanovich.
****1
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