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Performer: Ramses Sigl

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BerlinL'italiana in AlgeriNew production

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Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri
Alessandro De Marchi; Rolando Villazón; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Harald Thor; Brigitte Reiffenstuel; Stefan Bolliger; Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
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Semele at Dutch National Opera: myth, desire and fantasy

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Guth’s Semele turns myth into a contemporary domestic drama, where desire becomes obsession and illusion consumes reality. Handel’s music remains the true engine, driven by a thrilling, physically intense ensemble.

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Kaufmann and Deutsch shine in Claus Guth's dramatized Schwanengesang

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In New York's Park Avenue Armory, Claus Guth imagines Schubert's final song collection set in a military hospital, Jonas Kaufmann as one of its soldiers with a story to tell. 
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COC's sexed up Figaro: beautifully sung, creepily funny

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The COC revival of its 2016 production of Le nozze di Figaro is still rooted in Claus Guth’s gloomy Scandinavia but it’s lightened up to become much sexier and funnier.
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