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Performer: Nina Minasyan

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SevilleRoméo et Juliette

© Fabrizio Sansoni | Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Dmitry Matvienko; Luca de Fusco; Teatro de la Maestranza; Marta Crisolini Malatesta; Gigi Saccomandi; Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla

BerlinLucia di Lammermoor

Aigul Khismatullina (Lucia) © Bettina Stöß (2023)
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Michele Spotti; Filippo Sanjust; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin; Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin

LiègeThaïsNew production

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Massenet: Thaïs
Pierre Dumoussaud; Olivier Lepelletier-Leeds; Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège; Gary McCann; David Belugou; Laurent Castaingt; Orchestra de Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

BerlinLa traviata

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Verdi: La traviata
Giuseppe Mentuccia; Dieter Dorn; Staatsoper Berlin; Joanna Piestrzyńska; Moidele Bickel; Tobias Löffler; Staatskapelle Berlin
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A vintage Lucia dusted off for Spotti’s Deutsche Oper Berlin debut

Aigul Khismatullina (Lucia) © Bettina Stöß (2023)
A new run of performances for Filippo Sanjust’s 1980s staging of Lucia di Lammermoor suggests that the Deutsche Oper still needs to shake off its post-summer holiday torpor.
**111
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Der Rosenkavalier returns to DNO

Maria Bengtsson (Marschallin) © Clärchen & Matthias Baus | Dutch National Opera
Jan Philipp Gloger's production returns to Amsterdam with a superb cast led by Maria Bengtsson and Angela Brower. 
****1
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All that glitters: Barrie Kosky's Coq d'or opens in Lyon

Its premiere postponed from Festival d'Aix last summer, Barrie Kosky's staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's political satire finally takes place in Lyon. 
*****
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Cinders on the couch: Freudian Cendrillon at Glyndebourne

Cinderella undergoes psychoanalysis on the Sussex Downs as Fiona Shaw's production is revived for the Glyndebourne Festival. 
****1
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In Amsterdam, McBurney's Die Zauberflöte continues to delight

Back for its third run at Dutch National Opera, with a satisfying cast, McBurney's staging wins new converts. 
****1
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A superb, sinister Hoffmann at Dutch National Opera

Selectively unearthed from current critical editions, this fabulously performed new Hoffmann plumbs the murky depths of its antihero’s psyche.
*****
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