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Exciting, loud Fanciulla opens NYCO season

Whenever a relative opera novice or occasional toe-dipper tells me how he or she cried at the end of La bohème, I want to send them to La fanciulla del West. Of course I choke up at the end of Bohème – who doesn't? – but for a good bawling session, the fabulously maudlin finale of Fanciulla is the place to be. The plot doesn't bode well.
****1
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Nagasaki comes to Bedfordshire

Welsh National Opera brings its 1978 production of Madama Butterfly to Milton Keynes.  
***11
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Opera New Jersey’s Tosca

For more than half a century since the 1960s, several productions featuring some of the best-known celebrities in the opera world have set high standards for Puccini’s Tosca, that “shabby little shocker,” as a musicologist once called it.
***11
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