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LondonUn ballo in maschera
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Michael Papadopoulos; Rodula Gaitanou; Opera Holland Park; takis; Simon Corder; City of London Sinfonia
LondonParsifalNew production
Wagner: Parsifal
Jakub Hrůša; Evgeny Titov; The Royal Opera; Étienne Pluss; Esther Bialas; DM Wood; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
GlyndebourneSparkWorld premiere
Armstrong: Spark
Ashley Beauchamp; Fiona Dunn; Glyndebourne Youth Opera; Ryan Dawson Laight; Howard Hudson; Glyndebourne Sinfonia
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MacMillan's large scale choral work offers a rich variety of texts and musical ideas, the composer conducts the BBC Symphony with unerring precision.
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Hye-Youn Lee and Mario Chang head a strong cast in Barbe and Doucet’s revival of La bohème, which marks the retirement of veteran lighting designer, Guy Simard.
A mafioso Merry Widow at Opera Holland Park
Despite some excellent music-making, John Savournin's production is hindered by a laboured New York relocation.
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With misplaced horse heads, violin case guns and as many mafia gags as you could hope for, Scottish Opera’s Merry Widow may not be subtle but it looks and sounds gorgeous.
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Harry Fehr’s directorial debut for ENO transposes Donizetti’s tale into a World War 2 setting. Rhian Lois charms and commands as Adina.
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Margaret Atwood’s dystopic novel, masterfully adapted for the operatic stage, is strongly performed at ENO and rings even truer today than it did when it was written.
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GlasgowHansel and Gretel
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
David Parry; Daisy Evans; Scottish Opera; Neil Foulis; Kitty Whately; Rhian Lois; Nadine Benjamin