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ParisLe Trouvère

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Verdi: Il trovatore
Timur Zangiev; Àlex Ollé; Opéra national de Paris; Alfons Flores; Lluc Castells; Urs Schönebaum; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

New York CityMacbethNew production

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Verdi: Macbeth
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Louisa Proske; Metropolitan Opera; Jon Bausor; Montana Levi Blanco; Adam Silverman; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

New York CityTosca

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Puccini: Tosca
Oksana Lyniv; Sir David McVicar; Metropolitan Opera; John Macfarlane; David Finn; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

New York CitySamson et Dalila

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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
Giacomo Sagripanti; Darko Tresnjak; Metropolitan Opera; Alexander Dodge; Linda Cho; Donald Holder; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

New York CityAida

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Verdi: Aida
Daniele Callegari; Michael Mayer; Metropolitan Opera; Marco Armiliato; John Keenan; Christine Jones; Susan Hilferty

San FranciscoTosca

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Puccini: Tosca
Clelia Cafiero; Shawna Lucey; San Francisco Opera; Robert Innes Hopkins; Michael Clark; San Francisco Opera Orchestra
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Christopher Alden’s Rigoletto returns to Canadian Opera Company

Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto) and Gregory Dahl (Monterone) © Michael Cooper
Christopher Alden’s Victorian-era Rigoletto still divides opinions, despite top-notch performances all around in this Toronto revival. 
***11
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Diminishing returns in The Royal Opera’s Sicilian Vespers

Joyce El-Khoury (Hélène), dancers and the Royal Opera Chorus © The Royal Opera 2025 | Tristram Kenton
Joyce El-Khoury saves the day in The Royal Opera’s second revival of The Sicilian Vespers in Stefan Herheim’s paint-by-numbers production. 
***11
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LA Opera’s Rigoletto: a feast for the ears – and the mind

Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto) and LA Opera Chorus © Cory Weaver
Quinn Kelsey shines as Verdi’s court jester as Tomer Zvulun's production opens in Los Angeles. 
****1
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Angel Blue shines in the Met’s glitzy new Aida

Quinn Kelsey (Amonasro) and Angel Blue (Aida) © Ken Howard | Met Opera

The American soprano heads an uneven cast in Michael Mayer’s archeologically inspired staging of Verdi’s great tale of love, war and betrayal.

***11
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Thrills and a chill in Lise Davidsen's Tosca at the Met

Lise Davidsen (Tosca) © Met Opera | Marty Sohl
Nézét-Séguin takes a thoroughly veristic approach in the pit. Lise Davidsen's marmoreal nobility may not be perfectly suited to the title role, but oh Lord, the voice!
****1
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Superb cast galvanizes the Met’s revival of Bartlett Sher’s Rigoletto

Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto) and Nadine Sierra (Gilda) © Nina Wurtzel | Met Opera
This revival of the company’s 2019 Weimar-inspired staging of Verdi’s heartbreaking masterpiece is distinguished by stylish singing. 
****1
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ParisBeatrice di TendaNew production

Beatrice di Tenda à l'Opéra Bastille © Franck Ferville / Opéra national de Paris
Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda
Mark Wigglesworth; Peter Sellars; Opéra national de Paris; George Tsypin; Camille Assaf; James F Ingalls; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisRigoletto

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Verdi: Rigoletto
Nicola Luisotti; Claus Guth; Opéra national de Paris; Christian Schmidt; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris; Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris