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AlresfordEugene OneginNew production

Ruzan Mantashyan (Tatyana) © Richard Hubert Smith
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Lidiya Yankovskaya; Max Webster; The Grange Festival; Frankie Bradshaw; Jack Knowles; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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Compelling Ruzan Mantashyan makes the Grange’s Onegin unmissable

Ruzan Mantashyan (Tatyana) © Richard Hubert Smith
The Armenian soprano makes her Grange Festival debut – a casting coup that proves the single most compelling reason to see Max Webster’s new production.
****1
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Pelléas et Mélisande as a dark, shining fairy tale in Geneva

Mari Eriksmoen (Mélisande) and Björn Bürger (Pelléas) © GTG | Magali Dougados
A maximalist production of Pelléas et Mélisande at Geneva's Grand Théâtre shines, but tries a little too hard. 
****1
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Nadine Sierra shines in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in Naples

Nadine Sierra (Juliette) © Luciano Romano
This first-time Neapolitan performance of Gounod's masterpiece is destined to leave a lasting impression in the audience's memory.
****1
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Penthouse decadence for a shattering new Salome in Geneva

Olesya Golovneva (Salome) © Grand Théâtre de Genève | Magali Dougados
The Grand Théâtre de Genève is certainly not risk-averse and Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó controversially translates the action to a penthouse bar in New York.
*****
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Chaos in the Underworld: Andriy Zholdak directs Fidelio at DNO

Jacquelyn Wagner (Leonore) © Monika Rittershaus | Dutch National Opera
The Ukrainian director's “revisioning” of Beethoven's only opera plunges it into an incoherent underworld in Amsterdam.
*1111
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Crowning glory: DNO's Donizetti Tudor trilogy concludes

Barno Ismatullaeva (Elisabetta), Angela Brower (Sara) and Nikolay Zemlianskikh (Nottingham) © Ben van Duin | Dutch National Opera
Angela Brower steals the crown in the final instalment of Jetske Mijnssen’s Donizetti trilogy with a voice of apparently limitless emotional range. 
****1
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