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Performer: Isabel Leonard

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MunichLa Cenerentola

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Rossini: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Antonino Fogliani; Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; Bavarian State Opera; Bayerisches Staatsorchester; Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

MadridEl barbero de SevillaNew production

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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Giacomo Sagripanti; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro Real; Paolo Fantin; Silvia Aymonino; Fabio Barettin; Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

New York CityDiamond Jubilee: 60 Years at Lincoln Center

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The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Aigul Akhmetshina; Roberto Alagna; Xabier Anduaga
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The Met’s Frida y Diego proves visually stunning, musically thrilling

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Deborah Colker and her design team create visually vibrant worlds for the Met’s new production of El último sueño de Frida y Diego, by Pulitzer Prize winner Gabriela Lena Frank. 
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Met Orchestra brings a long neglected symphony back to life

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William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, overlooked for decades, heads an all-American program of 20th-century works in New York. 

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Energetic cast brightens up the Met’s tired-looking Barbiere

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Bartlett Sher’s 2006 production of Rossini’s tuneful masterpiece is showing its age, but a superb cast and conductor keep the comedy moving. 

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A French feast for the ears from Denève and the New World Symphony

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In Miami, Isabel Leonard bewitches in Ravel’s Shéhérazade, while Stéphane Denève and the New World Symphony conjure up atmospherics galore in Roussel and Schmitt ballet scores. 
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Kasper Holten’s powerful, hi-tech Don Giovanni arrives at LA Opera

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Lucas Meachem’s portrayal suggests a paraphrase of what another Hollywood Don Juan, Errol Flynn in 1949, said to his Leporello in excusing his escapades. “My dear friend, there’s a little bit of Don Giovanni in every man, and since I am Don Giovanni, there must be more of it in me!” 
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The NY Phil pays tribute to Sondheim at Bravo! Vail

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The New York Phil concluded its six-concert residency at this summer’s Bravo! Vail Festival with a survey of Stephen Sondheim’s legacy stylishly led by Leonard Slatkin.

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