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Gran Teatre del Liceu: Auditorium, Jul 09, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19

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Josep Pons; Laurent Pelly; Gran Teatre del Liceu; Barbara de Limburg; Joël Adam; Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu

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Shipwrecked: Donizetti’s Il furioso comes a cropper in Bergamo

Paolo Bordogna (Cardenio) © Gianfranco Rota

Mark Pullinger, 16 Nov

Manuel Renga’s sensitive framing device sets up a sympathetic production of a problematic opera, but is scuppered by the central vocal performance.

***11

Joshua Hopkins (Malatesta), Misha Kiria (Don Pasquale) and Simone Osborne (Norina) © Michael Cooper

Gianmarco Segato, 26 Apr

Canadian Opera Company's Don Pasquale offers a stylish Italian 1960s Fellini-inspired concept that delivers comedy but omits the pathos.

***11

Chelsea Lehnea (Paolina) and Santiago Ballerini (Poliuto) © Steven Pisano

Kevin W Ng, 19 Jul

Soprano Chelsea Lehnea is a revelation in a rare opportunity to see Donizetti's operatic take on the early Christian martyr Polyeuctus.

****1

An opening concert of contrasts in Washington DC

David Rohde, 03 Oct

A good audience turnout for the opening of Noseda's third NSO season justifies an all-20th-century program centering on Carl Orff's popular and direct setting of medieval poems about real life and fate, but also presenting gentler works of religious reflection.

****1

Bellini's Il pirata docks at Caramoor

Gregory Moomjy, 08 Jul

Under Will Crutchfield’s direction the festival has focused on the rediscovery of forgotten 19th-century Italian works and celebrates the legacy of the bel canto era.

***11