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Performer: Justin Austin

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PhiladelphiaJustin Austin / Howard Watkins

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Weill, Ravel, Wolf, Gordon, Owens
Justin Austin; Howard Watkins

EdinburghThe Galloping Cure

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Mazzoli: The Galloping Cure
Stuart Stratford; Tom Morris; Opera Ventures Productions; Rebecca Ringst; Christina Cunningham; Lucy Carter; The Orchestra of Scottish Opera

New York CitySilent NightNew production

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Puts: Silent Night
Dalia Stasevska; James Robinson; Metropolitan Opera; Mimi Lien; Catherine Zuber; Lap Chi Chu; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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Washington National Opera marches onward with a joyous Treemonisha

Viviana Goodwin (Treemonisha) and Jonathan Pierce Rhodes (Zodzetrick) © Elman Studio
A vibrant new production of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha at Washington National Opera underscores the opera’s enduring message of education, community and social justice.
****1
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Mozart meets Gatsby in LA Opera’s new Così fan tutte

Ana María Martínez (Despina), Rihab Chaieb (Dorabella) and Erica Petrocelli (Fiordiligi) © Cory Weaver
 Michael Cavanagh's sleek new production, designed by Erhard Rom and conducted by James Conlon, transforms the 18th-century opera into a Broadway musical, score by Mozart.
****1
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Allan Clayton dazzles in Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Met

Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Met is a worthy addition to the operatic canon, and the production is a treat. 

*****
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Chausson's rarely heard Le Roi Arthus well served at Bard

The first fully staged American production of Chausson's sole opera features remarkable singing, fine storytelling and plush orchestral playing.
****1
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Threepenny Opera suffers under the weight of its own ambitions

The live-streamed production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera sought to reinvent for online presentation but ended up uneven and overly busy.

**111
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Zambello’s Porgy and Bess at Glimmerglass

Glimmerglass’ Porgy and Bess proves one more time that Gershwin’s opus remains America’s most important 20th-century opera.
****1
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