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Santa Cruz de TenerifeLe nozze di Figaro
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Pablo González; Marta Pazos; Ópera de Tenerife; Max Glaenzel; Agustín Petronio; Nuno Meira; Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife
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An excellent cast and smart, engaged direction make for an auspicious season launch in San Francisco Opera’s production of one of Verdi’s most sophisticated creations.
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Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s production has undergone a year of expert scrutiny before this well-sung revival.
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From stylised 16th-century dress to a 1970s sitcom ballet, Konwitschny's Staatsoper staging is full of brilliantly inventive touches, splendidly realised in this excellently sung revival.
A Cav & Pag with virtues and flaws at San Francisco Opera
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Verdi voices that make one sit up and listen made this a memorable matinee.
Trying to rethink Madama Butterfly at Seattle Opera
Seattle Opera's visually poetic and refined Madama Butterfly peeks back at Puccini's own first version of the opera, which was arguably more openly critical of the devastation wrought by imperialism.