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Salieri: Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle
René Jacobs; La Monnaie | De Munt; B'Rock Orchestra; Chœur de chambre de Namur; Krešimir Stražanac; Grégoire Mour
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Neorealist nostalgia: Monteverdi’s Ulisse in post-war Sicily
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Davide Livermore creates a successful production of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, with a great cast led by Mauro Borgioni.
Excellent singing in Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in Halle
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The Halle Handel Festival brings wonderful Baroque vocalising and playing in this somewhat obscure offering from Handel's early days in Italy.
La Calisto arrives at La Scala for the first time and triumphs
Cavalli's debut at La Scala is a triumph, earning applause that not even a Bohème or a Traviata can sometimes elicit.
An immersive auto-da-fé: Konwitschny's Don Carlos sizzles
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.
Turin's Orpheus does not ascend to Heaven
In the Teatro Regio's production everything is according to the script, but the magic of the stage is absent.
Sara Mingardo leads a strong cast in Hamburg Ulisse
Willy Decker's production, presented in Zürich in 2014, is revived at the Hamburgische Staatsoper with most of the same cast