Performer: Robert Innes Hopkins

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San FranciscoTosca

War Memorial Opera House, 2027 Jun 04, 08, 12, 17, 20 mat, 26 mat, 29, Jul 02

Puccini: Tosca

Clelia Cafiero; Shawna Lucey; San Francisco Opera; Robert Innes Hopkins; Michael Clark; San Francisco Opera Orchestra

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Rigoletto cast dazzles in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s season opener

Igor Golovatenko (Rigoletto) © Todd Rosenberg

Graham Meyer, 14 Sep

Through brilliant singing and layered acting, Javier Camarena, Mané Galoyan, and Igor Golovatenko drive a Rigoletto to warm a traditionalist's heart.

****1

Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Violetta) © Cory Weaver | LA Opera

Matthew Richard Martinez, 06 Apr

Shawna Lucey's production from San Francisco Opera misses the mark as it premieres to a packed Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

*1111

Tension accumulates in Handel’s Tamerlano at The Grange Festival

David Truslove, 10 Jun

Some exceptional singing intermittently enlivens Daniel Slater's production which, dramatically and emotionally, takes time to ignite.

***11

A White House Rigoletto with some impressive voices

Robert Gainer, 06 Nov

Welsh National Opera brought a cast of strong voices to Birmingham for a production of Rigoletto intriguingly set in the White House of the 1960s.

***11

War and Peace: WNO comes to London to parade its wares

Mark Valencia, 23 Jul

It’s a small miracle that the production has been recreated so well in such a short time frame.

****1

Ferocious intensity: Pountney's new War and Peace at WNO

Rohan Shotton, 15 Sep

WNO make a compelling case for Prokofiev's gargantuan War and Peace.

*****