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Mozart's Il re pastore enchants Rome
Cecilia Ligorio directs the first new production of Mozart's early opera at the Opera di Roma since 1988.
An underwhelming Barber in Oslo
François de Carpentries' Oslo production of The Barber of Seville was both unfunny and underwhelming.
WNO's musically and visually opulent Bohème
A musically excellent and unpretentious performance of Puccini's masterpiece from Cardiff.
Fright at the Museum: Slater’s Aida flops at Holland Park
Third time unlucky? After a scorching start to the summer, with superb productions of Il trittico and Flight, Opera Holland Park’s season came unstuck with a horror of a show in Daniel Slater’s Aida.
The stage manager steals the show – Adriana Lecouvreur at Opera Holland Park
Martin Lloyd-Evan's highly sensitive production features a show-stealing performance by Richard Burkhard but is marred by problems of orchestral balance.
A lacklustre Butterfly at Holland Park
Whatever Puccini’s Madama Butterfly has going for it, it isn’t suspense – everything that’s going to happen is spelled out the first few pages of the score, as Pinkerton chuckles that the marriage contracts in Japan are as flexible as the property leases, renegotiable on a monthly basis, and toasts the day he gets married “for real” to an American bride.