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TokyoToscaConcert performance
Puccini: Tosca
Fabio Luisi; NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo; Tokyo Opera Singers; Elena Stikhina; Riccardo Massi
AmsterdamSimon BoccanegraNew production
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Fabio Luisi; Jetske Mijnssen; Dutch National Opera; Étienne Pluss; Hannah Clark; Valerio Tiberi; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
AmsterdamPagliacci / Cavalleria rusticana
Leoncavallo, Mascagni
Andrea Battistoni; Robert Carsen; Dutch National Opera; Radu Boruzescu; Annemarie Woods; Peter van Praet; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
BerlinLa bohème
Puccini: La bohème
Ivan Repušić; Lindy Hume; Staatsoper Berlin; Giuseppe Mentuccia; Dan Potra; Carl Friedrich Oberle; Franz Peter David
San FranciscoTosca
Puccini: Tosca
Clelia Cafiero; Shawna Lucey; San Francisco Opera; Robert Innes Hopkins; Michael Clark; San Francisco Opera Orchestra
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Jetske Mijnssen’s Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale
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Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.
Barton’s Azucena drags Trovatore from the flames
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Adele Thomas’ Royal Opera staging channels the Marx Brothers in playing it for laughs, but the musical compensations are many under Sir Antonio Pappano.
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Davide Livermore's digital set for Opera Australia's new production of Aida ushers in a new type of staging to the Sydney Opera House, and backs up a stellar performance from Amber Wagner in the title role.
Flimm's Hollywood Manon Lescaut is fleet-footed but effective
With a light-voiced cast and gentle updating, the Staatsoper's new Manon Lescaut makes a good case for Puccini's difficult breakthrough opera.
Chinese symbols abound in Sydney Harbour Turandot
Chinese dragons, Dalek-like pagoda towers: Opera Australia's harbour-side production of Turandot did not shy away from oriental imagery, leading to a spectacular evening's entertainment.
Love reigns in Zurich's Turandot
In Zurich, a dazzling production of Puccini's great Turandot gives us the stuff of torment, torture and all the other idiosyncracies of love at the executuve level.