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MadridMozart - Las bodas de FígaroNew production
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Stefano Montanari; Robert Carsen; Teatro Real; Christian Schmidt; Luis F Carvalho; Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real
MunichDon Giovanni
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Vladimir Jurowski; David Hermann; Bavarian State Opera; Jo Schramm; Sibylle Wallum; Felice Ross; Bayerisches Staatsorchester
MunichIl barbiere di Siviglia
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Riccardo Bisatti; Ferruccio Soleri; Bavarian State Opera; Carlo Tommasi; Ute Frühling; Bayerisches Staatsorchester; Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Santa FeEugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Keri-Lynn Wilson; Alessandro Talevi; Santa Fe Opera; Robert Tweten; Gary McCann; Rick Fisher
New York CitySilent NightNew production
Puts: Silent Night
Dalia Stasevska; James Robinson; Metropolitan Opera; Mimi Lien; Catherine Zuber; Lap Chi Chu; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
MilanI puritani
Bellini: I puritani
Fabio Luisi; Davide Livermore; Teatro alla Scala; Eleonora Peronetti; Gianluca Falaschi; Antonio Castro; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
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Rosa Feola’s Lucia rescues a San Carlo production showing its age
Gianni Amelio's 2021 production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro di San Carlo serves the music, but it no longer commands the same sense of discovery.
Rossini Opera Festival’s clever pairing of first and last laughs
Rossini’s first staged opera, La cambiale di matrimonio, in a spirited production by Laurence Dale, paired with his late work Les soirées musicales in a successful performance.
Bieito directs a moving Suor Angelica and Il prigioniero in Rome
An unusual double bill pairing of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero opens at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.
A forgotten meta-opera at La Scala: Gassmann’s L’opera seria
Christophe Rousset leads a great cast and an even greater orchestra in Gassmann’s 1769 rarity in Laurent Pelly’s visually striking, but oddly subdued, take on a comedy that thrives on chaos.
All play and no work: an exuberant Figaro in Munich
Evgeny Titov's new production is heavy on the jokes and light in substance, but delights anyway thanks to its high-class cast.
Une Folle journée: Mozart-Da Ponte pasticcio at the Whitsun Festival
Cecilia Bartoli leads a stellar cast in a silly, but fun divertissement where Mozart’s music shines supreme.