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The Rossini Opera Festival comes home! Bianca e Falliero in Pesaro
Jessica Pratt leads a strong cast in a beautiful performance of one of Rossini’s unjustly forgotten masterpieces, under the spectacular baton of Roberto Abbado, despite an unremarkable new production by Jean-Louis Grinda.
Lawrence Brownlee steals the show in Tokyo Lucia di Lammermoor
Jean-Louis Grinda's traditional production is revived for New National Theatre Tokyo's eighth opera production since the house reopened with audiences last autumn.
The Tales of Hoffmann are beautifully told in Naples
One of Teatro San Carlo’s most cherished productions of recent years, with an excellent cast of singers and a director who steered at his ease into the libretto’s erratic changes of mood and atmosphere.
A slick and enjoyable Tales of Hoffmann by Opera Hong Kong
Jacques Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a fine example of how the ridiculous can indeed be sublime. Three E.T.A. Hoffmann stories about otherworldly love affairs with defective femmes fatales, one of whom turns out to be a mechanical doll, connected only by the author’s gullible alter-ego as protagonist, scale the heights of the phantasmagorical.
Lucrezia Borgia ou les sortilèges du bel canto à Liège
Retour du bel canto à Liège avec une belle production de l'opéra de Gaetano Donizetti où triomphe, dans le rôle-titre, une Jessica Pratt impressionnante de maîtrise et d'engagement.
Une Bohème de tradition par Jean-Louis Grinda à Monte-Carlo
Au Grimaldi Forum, la production suscite l'adhésion grâce à une mise en scène très lisible, une direction musicale admirable et une belle distribution, emmenée par une Anna Netrebko des grands soirs.