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BirminghamKazuki conducts Harmonium

© Andrew Fox
Copland, Tower, Price, Adams
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Janai Brugger; CBSO Chorus

EdinburghMozart’s Don GiovanniConcert performance

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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Maxim Emelyanychev; Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus; Konstantin Krimmel; Michael Sumuel

New York CityLincoln in the BardoWorld premiere

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Mazzoli: Lincoln in the Bardo
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lileana Blain-Cruz; Metropolitan Opera; Steven Osgood; Adam Rigg; Montana Levi Blanco; Yi Zhao

PhiladelphiaCarmina burana

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Coleridge-Taylor, Ortiz, Orff
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Jeffrey R. Smith; Janai Brugger; Jonah Hoskins; Will Liverman
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La bohème as escapist epic at LA Opera

Janai Brugger (Mimì) and Oreste Cosimo (Rodolfo) © Cory Weaver
Puccini's tale of bohemian love lives on at the Dorothy Chandler as LA Opera launches its 2025-26 season. 
****1
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Ivo van Hove’s Don Giovanni makes a welcome reappearance at the Met

Ryan Speedo Green (Don Giovanni) and Federica Lombardi (Donna Anna) © Ken Howard | Met Opera
Opera lovers’ favorite roué is back at the Met, with the charismatic Ryan Speedo Green taking on the title role.
****1
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Heggie’s newly staged Moby Dick lands triumphantly at the Met

Peter Mattei (Starbuck) © Karen Almond | Met Opera

Fifteen years after its Dallas Opera world premiere, Jake Heggie’s grand adaptation of Herman Melville’s sprawling epic arrives in New York in a stunning production with a standout cast.  

*****
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Sondra Radvanovsky triumphs in COC's darkly grand Medea

Sondra Radvanovsky (Medea) © Marty Sohl | Met Opera (2022)
In the title role of Canadian Opera Company's Medea, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky offers the vocal and dramatic goods required by this flawed masterpiece. 
****1
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Superb cast delivers delights in the Met’s family-friendly Magic Flute

Rolando Villazón (Papageno) © Evan Zimmerman | Met Opera
Julie Taymor's whimsical 2004 staging of Mozart's Singspiel continues to please in the Met's condensed, English-language version.
****1
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Radvanovsky triumphs as Cherubini's Medea opens the Met Opera season

Sondra Radvanovsky (Medea) © Marty Sohl | Met Opera
Sir David McVicar's new production opens the Met season with house's first ever staging of Cherubini's Medea.
*****
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