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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
James Gaffigan; Barrie Kosky; Komische Oper Berlin; Andrew Grams; Jan Freese; Dede Ayite; Olaf Freese
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A radically trad Fidelio at Garsington
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Simple solutions prove the best in Beethoven's "problem" opera as John Cox's staging is revived at Garsington.
Utterly bewitching Rusalka at Garsington Opera
It's taken two years for Jack Furness' new production of Dvořák's greatest opera to reach the Garsington stage, but it is entirely worth the wait, with a breathtaking performance from Natalya Romaniw in the title role.
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Phelim McDermott's popular staging of Satyagraha, which verges on the lush and the voluptuous, is revived to open English National Opera's season.
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Grange Park Opera’s new production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess makes for a searingly effective evening of music and drama.
Red dresses and a green balloon: Carmen in Philadelphia
Paul Curran's movie-Like Carmen for Opera Philadelphia
Billowing silk, blue hair: an evocative ENO Aida
McDermott envisages Aida as a sister production to his team's mesmeric Akhnaten. But would the hypnotic juggling and glacial choreography work for Giuseppe Verdi's Nile epic?