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Performer: René Barbera

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RomeVerdi: Requiem / Myung-Whun Chung

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Myung-whun Chung; Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Ailyn Pérez; Ekaterina Semenchuk; René Barbera

ParisLa traviata

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Verdi: La traviata
Marta Gardolińska; Simon Stone; Opéra national de Paris; Bob Cousins; Alice Babidge; James Farncombe; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

MunichLa Cenerentola

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Rossini: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Antonino Fogliani; Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; Bavarian State Opera; Bayerisches Staatsorchester; Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
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Rosa Feola’s Lucia rescues a San Carlo production showing its age

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Gianni Amelio's 2021 production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro di San Carlo serves the music, but it no longer commands the same sense of discovery.
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Jessica Pratt triumphs in a new Lucrezia Borgia in Florence

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Despite the Maggio Musicale stage being dominated by clerical garb and daring papal parallels, the true revelation is Jessica Pratt's breathtaking role debut as Lucrezia.

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LA Opera’s Rigoletto: a feast for the ears – and the mind

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Quinn Kelsey shines as Verdi’s court jester as Tomer Zvulun's production opens in Los Angeles. 
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ParisIl barbiere di Siviglia

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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Carlo Montanaro; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Silvia Aymonino; Fabio Barettin; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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René Barbera: a bel canto season in Europe

As he prepares a season of debuts in some of the biggest European houses, American tenor René Barbera takes time to reflect on his bel canto roles and the challenges ahead.