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The Royal Opera stages its first Makropulos Case

Aušrinė Stundytė (Emilia Marty) and Sean Panikkar (Albert Gregor) © The Royal Opera | Camilla Greenwell
Katie Mitchell wheels out her tired old tropes in The Makropulos Case, redeemed by its musical performances. 
***11
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Nadine Sierra leads a musically formidable Lucia di Lammermoor

Nadine Sierra (Lucia) and Rachael Lloyd (Alisa) © ROH | Camilla Greenwell
Katie Mitchell's provocative staging is revived to great effect, elevated by glorious music-making led by Nadine Sierra's sensational Lucia. 
****1
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272 years on, Handel's Theodora comes home to Covent Garden

Superb singing from Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Józef Orliński lights up a curate's egg staging from Katie Mitchell.
***11
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Royal Opera's A New Dark Age is a powerful cantata for our time

The Royal Opera House responds to current global turmoil with a double bill by four women composers. Baritone Peter Brathwaite delivers a tour de force in The Knife of Dawn and A New Dark Age is a powerful emotional journey.
***11
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Less than the sum of its parts: Zauberland at the Linbury

Fine performances by Julia Bullock and Cédric Tiberghien can't make up for the confusion of a fragmented, allusive narrative.
**111
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“Soap opera at its best”: Katie Mitchell's Jenůfa

Katie Mitchell's second production of Jenůfa is a straightforward, effective reading of the libretto well supported by excellent singing actors.
****1
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Nadine Sierra reclaims her narrative

Nadine Sierra © Gregor Hohenberg
Fresh out of her triumphant appearance in La sonnambula at the Met, soprano Nadine Sierra talks about being on a turning point in her career.