Performer: Goderdzi Janelidze

A great orchestral performance of an exciting score don't quite mask the dramatic weaknesses of Opera Rara's latest.

Inspiration eludes the director as a new staging of Saint-Säens’ biblical epic falls flat but for some excellent musical performances led by outstanding mezzo Elīna Garanča. 

Contrasting sensations at the Liceu, where the audience punished a production of La bohème with boos and gave rapturous applause to a cast that performed at half throttle.