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LeedsEugene OneginNew production

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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Garry Walker; Patrick Nolan; Opera North; Leslie Travers; Elizabeth Gadsby; Malcolm Rippeth; Orchestra of Opera North

Newcastle upon TyneEugene OneginNew production

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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Garry Walker; Patrick Nolan; Opera North; Leslie Travers; Elizabeth Gadsby; Malcolm Rippeth; Orchestra of Opera North

SalfordEugene OneginNew production

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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Garry Walker; Patrick Nolan; Opera North; Leslie Travers; Elizabeth Gadsby; Malcolm Rippeth; Orchestra of Opera North

NottinghamEugene OneginNew production

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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Garry Walker; Patrick Nolan; Opera North; Leslie Travers; Elizabeth Gadsby; Malcolm Rippeth; Orchestra of Opera North

GenevaTheodoraNew production

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Handel: Theodora
Raphaël Pichon; Krzysztof Warlikowski; Grand Théâtre de Genève; Małgorzata Szczęśniak; Felice Ross; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

RotterdamCarmina Burana

© National Choir Of Ukraine "Dumka"
Sibelius, Orff
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Dalia Stasevska; Miriam Kutrowatz; Anthony Gregory; John Brancy; National Choir of the Ukraine "Dumka"
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Funereal Fauré and Gounod from Equilbey, accentus and Insula

Insula, accentus, John Brancy and Laurence Equilbey © Mark Allan | Barbican
Gorgeous French music, polished choral singing and excellent soloists are marred by an overwhelmingly dark timbre and unsympathetic video.
***11
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Intriguing, mysterious, intense: Picture a day like this at the ROH

Ema Nikolovska (Woman) and John Brancy (Artisan) © ROH | Camilla Greenwell
Sir George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s new chamber opera receives a powerful UK premiere in the Linbury Studio at Covent Garden. 
****1
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The fat knight sings in Bard Festival's Sir John in Love

Ann Toomey, Craig Colclough, Sarah Saturnino © Bard Music Festival | Stephanie Berger
A two-week Ralph Vaughan Williams retrospective closed with his gentle, folksy spin on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.
***11
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Lessons in grief: Picture a day like this triumphs in Aix

Marianne Crebassa (The Woman) © Jean-Louis Fernandez
Sir George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s fourth opera shares the best qualities of their previous work but is an inspiring, breathtaking fable.
*****
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Clément’s cruel Don Pasquale strikes a sour note

Mariame Clément’s Glyndebourne production of Don Pasquale, revived here for the 2015 Tour, delivers its lesson particularly harshly. 
***11
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Opera Saratoga’s delightful Cenerentola

Attention to clarity and detail without fussiness is a wonderful thing in the presentation of a Rossini comic opera, and Opera Saratoga in upstate New York scored a triumph with their new production of La Cenerentola by assembling a fine all-around team.
****1
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The Mastersingers of Montréal: A singing competition of superlatives

The contestants value the top-class Concours musical international de Montréal for its personal atmosphere.