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Frankfurt am MainHänsel und Gretel

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Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Alden Gatt; Keith Warner; Oper Frankfurt; Thomas Guggeis; Jason Southgate; Julia Müer; John Bishop

ViennaDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg

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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Axel Kober; Keith Warner; Vienna State Opera; Boris Kudlička; Kaspar Glarner; John Bishop; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
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Quinn Kelsey triumphs in Opera Philadelphia's Simon Boccanegra

Quinn Kelsey (Simon Boccanegra) © Steven Pisano
In his role debut as the Genoan Doge, the American baritone continues to burnish his bona fides as the premier Verdi baritone of his generation.
****1
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Alexander Litvinenko: a thrilling – if imperfect – world premiere

Ivor Bolton and Kit Hesketh-Harvey deliver a brilliant political thriller and anti-Putin polemic – at least for its first half.
****1
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Consumption or Covid? La bohème at Grange Park Opera

Grange Park Opera's revival of its 2015 production of Puccini's La bohème hits some high notes with a very contemporary feel and some excellent singing from its leading ladies.
***11
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Notorious: world première in Gothenburg

When one of the most sought-after sopranos of our time slips into the role of her most famous countrywoman, the foundations for an eventful evening of opera have already been laid. The Swedish world première Notorious, after Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same title, shows in an all-round successful production that contemporary opera can have a promising future.
*****
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Boris Godunow an der Oper Frankfurt: im Panoptikum der Unterdrückung

Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris Godunow) © Barbara Aumüller
Die Oper Frankfurt präsentiert Boris Godunow in der Schostakowitsch-Fassung – szenisch und musikalisch aufwendig wird die Inszenierung zu einer überwältigenden Ensemble-Leistung.
****1
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Sensationell: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg an der Wiener Staatsoper

Michael Volle (Hans Sachs) © Michael Pöhn | Wiener Staatsoper
Michael Volle und Wolfgang Koch führen eine triumphale Neuinszenierung von Keith Warner an.
*****
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