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MunichManon Lescaut

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Andrea Battistoni; Hans Neuenfels; Bavarian State Opera; Stefan Mayer; Andrea Schmidt-Futterer; Stefan Bolliger; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

SantanderLa flauta mágica

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
David Afkham; Rolando Villazón; Harald Thor; Tanja Hofmann; Stefan Bolliger; Javier Camarena

RomeFalstaff

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Verdi: Falstaff
Michele Mariotti; Tatjana Gürbaca; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Henrik Ahr; Silke Willrett; Stefan Bolliger; Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

ViennaDie Entführung aus dem Serail

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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem)
Constantin Trinks; Hans Neuenfels; Vienna State Opera; Christian Schmidt; Bettina Merz; Stefan Bolliger; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

ViennaDie Zauberflöte

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Axel Kober; Barbora Horáková; Vienna State Opera; Falko Herold; Eva Butzkies; Stefan Bolliger; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera

BerlinSalome

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Strauss R.: Salome
Axel Kober; Hans Neuenfels; Staatsoper Berlin; Reinhard von der Thannen; Stefan Bolliger; Staatskapelle Berlin
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L’italiana in Algeri in the wrestling ring at Deutsche Oper Berlin

L'italiana in Algeri at Deutsche Oper Berlin © Eike Walkenhorst
A classic opera buffa gets an update by Rolando Villazón to a produce a staging that celebrates the timeless vitality of Rossini’s comic imagination.
****1
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Thalheimer’s directs a static new Berlin Tristan und Isolde

Elisabeth Teige (Isolde) © Bernd Uhlig
At the start of his farewell to Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles shines with his orchestra, supplying the passion and tension withheld in Michael Thalheimer’s production.
****1
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Overcrowding suffocates DNO's Traviata

Adela Zaharia (Violetta) and ensemble © Ben van Duin | Dutch National Opera
Adela Zaharia is cast as a Violetta for whom the party never stops in this revival of Tatjana Gürbaca's busy staging at Dutch National Opera. 
**111
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Two-thirds of a triumph: Tatjana Gürbaca’s Trittico in Vienna

Bogdan Volkov (Rinuccio), Ambrogio Maestri (Gianni Schicchi) and Serena Sáenz (Lauretta) © Wiener Staatsoper | Michael Pöhn
The first premiere of the new Staatsoper season is a qualified success, led by Eleanora Buratto's superb Suor Angelica and Ambrogio Maestri's masterly Gianni Schicchi in Puccini's triptych of one-act operas. 
****1
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Tatjana Gürbaca’s Geneva staging of Kátya Kabanová travels to Brno

Aleš Briscein (Boris) and Corinne Winters (Kátya) © Marek Olbrzymek
Director Tatjana Gürbaca and Czech conductor Tomáš Netopil deliver a “Romantic” Kátya Kabanová from the Grand Théâtre de Genève at Brno’s Janáček Festival.
****1
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Salzburg Barbiere is an exuberant celebration of old movies

Nicola Alaimo (Figaro), Edgardo Rocha (Almaviva), Cecilia Bartoli (Rosina) and Arturo Brachetti © Monika Rittershaus

Despite some forgivable excesses, Nicola Alaimo and Cecilia Bartoli led a dream cast for a fun, engaging performance of Rossini's classic.

****1
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