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GenevaLes Noces de Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)New production

© GTG / Ronald Curchod
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Marta Gardolińska; Jetske Mijnssen; Grand Théâtre de Genève; Étienne Pluss; Gideon Davey; Fabrice Kebour; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Frankfurt am MainOttoneNew production

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Handel: Ottone, re di Germania
Václav Luks; Jetske Mijnssen; Oper Frankfurt; Ben Baur; Jan Hartmann; Opera Frankfurt Orchestra

AmsterdamNormaNew production

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Bellini: Norma
Enrique Mazzola; Jetske Mijnssen; Dutch National Opera; Étienne Pluss; Hannah Clark; Valerio Tiberi; Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
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Jetske Mijnssen’s Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

George Petean (Simon Boccanegra) and Georg Zeppenfeld (Jacopo Fiesco) © Dutch National Opera | Ben van Duin
Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.
*****
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Handel’s Ariodante returns home to Covent Garden

Emily D’Angelo (Ariodante) © RBO 2025 | Marc Brenner
Jetske Mijnssen’s house debut sees Handel’s opera transposed to a modern-day palace, with Emily D'Angelo angelic in the title role. 
****1
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Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal

Daniel Johansson (Parsifal) and Kristina Stanek (Kundry) © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd | Photo: Richard Hubert Smith
Compelling singers carry the day in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's first staging of Wagner’s swansong. 
****1
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Second episode in Jetske Mijnssen's Tudor trilogy opens in Naples

Pretty Yende (Maria Stuarda) and Aigul Akhmetshina (Elisabetta) © Luciano Romano
This production focuses on the psychological and human aspects of the central characters, rather than on their political conflict, with Elizabeth playing a pivotal role.
***11
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Crowning glory: DNO's Donizetti Tudor trilogy concludes

Barno Ismatullaeva (Elisabetta), Angela Brower (Sara) and Nikolay Zemlianskikh (Nottingham) © Ben van Duin | Dutch National Opera
Angela Brower steals the crown in the final instalment of Jetske Mijnssen’s Donizetti trilogy with a voice of apparently limitless emotional range. 
****1
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Annalisa Stroppa's Giovanna triumphs in San Carlo's Anna Bolena

Maria Agresta (Anna Bolena) and Annalisa Stroppa (Giovanna Seymour) © Luciano Romano
The Italian mezzo-soprano makes her mark as Anne Boleyn's rival in Jetske Mijnssen's production in Naples. 
****1
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AmsterdamSimon BoccanegraNew production

George Petean (Simon Boccanegra) and Georg Zeppenfeld (Jacopo Fiesco) © Dutch National Opera | Ben van Duin
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Fabio Luisi; Jetske Mijnssen; Dutch National Opera; Étienne Pluss; Hannah Clark; Valerio Tiberi; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra