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Blissful and hard-boiled: I Capuleti e i Montecchi at ETO

Brenton Spiteri (Tebaldo) and Samantha Price (Romeo) © Richard Hubert Smith
Eloise Lally shifts the Romeo and Juliet love story into New York mafia families. Jessica Cale and Samantha Price provide blissful bel canto as the star-crossed lovers.
****1
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Sacred and profane in Guildhall School's Respighi double bill

Yolisa Ngwexana (The Blue Fairy) © David Monteith-Hodge | Photographise
From the spiritual conversion of a Medieval sex-worker, to the Sleeping Beauty tale reimagined, Guildhall stages a Respighi double-bill.
***11
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Holst and Weir operas from the Guildhall School of Music

Lorna Maclean (Sāvitri) and Steven van der Linden (Satyavān) © Guildhall School | David Monteith-Hodge

Two accomplished performances bring emotional depth only intermittently, but show ample security of singing and playing. 

***11
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A cunning little masterpiece from Rattle and the LSO

Messrs Rattle and Sellars bewitch the Barbican audience with a sumptuous rendition of Janáček's magnum opus. 
****1
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