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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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Darkness without passion: Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen at La Scala
Despite Michieletto's visual gloom, the evening is redeemed by Myung-whun Chung’s masterful conducting and a cast that brings conviction to a production that rarely trusts the opera’s own dramatic power.
Pelly’s iconic Fille du régiment retains its charm at La Scala
Julie Fuchs and Juan Diego Flórez give life to the refreshing and funny take of Laurent Pelly’s classic production, under the baton of Evelino Pidò.
Michieletto directs an excellent new Carmen at Covent Garden
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.
The Pearl Fishers: Turin opens its operatic season
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.
Carmen as therapy in Aix
Love may well be a rebellious bird, but that's as nothing to maverick director Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose twisted staging for Festival d'Aix reimagines Bizet's opera as a radical therapy session.
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Massenet: Manon
Dan Ettinger; Vincent Huguet; Opéra national de Paris; Aurélie Maestre; Clémence Pernoud; Bertrand Couderc; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris