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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.
Orpha Phelan delivers farcical Donizetti at the Wexford Festival Opera
Superlative singing, hilarious antics and an energetic production make Donizetti's Le Convenience ed inconvenience an exhilarating success.
Adelaide di Borgogna returns to the Rossini Opera Festival
The ROF presents a new, cheeky production of Adelaide, by Arnaud Bernard, based on a unoriginal but very well executed “meta-theatrical” take, with an exemplary cast.
Vick's new Magic Flute opens the Macerata festival
The Magic Flute's roots in popular theatre come through most strongly throughout Vick's production, which sparkles with a wealth of witty detail. But treatment of the work's socio-political undercurrents doesn't work nearly as well.
Rameaus Les Boréades am Badischen Staatstheater Karlsruhe
Ein großes Vergnügen für Auge und Ohr mit überraschend viel Tiefgang. In dieser Inszenierung ist die Oper von beklemmender Aktualität.