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Verdi: La traviata
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Clelia Cafiero; Stewart Laing; San Francisco Opera; DM Wood; San Francisco Opera Orchestra
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Marco Armiliato; Franco Zeffirelli; Metropolitan Opera; Peter J. Hall; Gil Wechsler; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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New Meistersinger succeeds musically despite the muddled production
Set in a 1930s music school, Sergio Morabito, Jossi Wieler and Anna Viebrick's new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Deutsche Oper Berlin has some inspirational ideas but they often get in the way of the music.
A musically ideal Così in The Met's revival
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