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MilanLa Fille du régiment
Donizetti: La Fille du régiment
Evelino Pidò; Laurent Pelly; Teatro alla Scala; Chantal Thomas; Joël Adam; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
MilanCarmenNew production
Bizet: Carmen
Myung-whun Chung; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro alla Scala; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
LondonLa bohème
Puccini: La bohème
Lorenzo Passerini; Richard Jones; The Royal Opera; Stewart Laing; Mimi Jordan Sherin; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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Michieletto directs an excellent new Carmen at Covent Garden
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Aigul Akhmetshina is outstanding in the title role, hearing Piotr Beczała is a privilege, but it's Damiano Michieletto's new staging that takes the honours.
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The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.
Kosky's Carmen fails to light fires
Interesting ideas and a brilliant orchestral performance aren't enough to overcome a visually dull staging, predictable choreography and a lack of chemistry between the protagonists.
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ParisManon
Massenet: Manon
Dan Ettinger; Vincent Huguet; Opéra national de Paris; Aurélie Maestre; Clémence Pernoud; Bertrand Couderc; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris