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Performer: Stephen Costello

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Santa FeMadama Butterfly

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Lee Blakeley; Santa Fe Opera; Jean-Marc Puissant; Brigitte Reiffenstuel; Rick Fisher; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra

EdinburghVerdi’s A Masked Ball

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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Gianandrea Noseda; Adele Thomas; Zurich Opera; Hannah Clark; Franck Evin; Zurich Opera Chorus

New York CityLa bohème

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Puccini: La bohème
Ramón Tebar; Franco Zeffirelli; Metropolitan Opera; Peter J. Hall; Gil Wechsler; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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Canadian Opera Company opens season with Roméo et Juliette

Stephen Costello (Roméo) and Kseniia Proshina (Juliette) © Michael Cooper
Amy Lane’s production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the COC is eye-catching and enjoyable but doesn’t offer the same level of insight as her Faust last season. 
***11
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Heggie’s newly staged Moby Dick lands triumphantly at the Met

Peter Mattei (Starbuck) © Karen Almond | Met Opera

Fifteen years after its Dallas Opera world premiere, Jake Heggie’s grand adaptation of Herman Melville’s sprawling epic arrives in New York in a stunning production with a standout cast.  

*****
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Superb cast galvanizes the Met’s revival of Bartlett Sher’s Rigoletto

Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto) and Nadine Sierra (Gilda) © Nina Wurtzel | Met Opera
This revival of the company’s 2019 Weimar-inspired staging of Verdi’s heartbreaking masterpiece is distinguished by stylish singing. 
****1
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A stirring Beethoven 9 from Tanglewood young musicians

Susanna Mälkki conducts the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra © Hilary Scott
The summer festival closes with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra playing Tippett and Beethoven. 
****1
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Nadine Sierra: the next great Violetta?

Nadine Sierra (Violetta) © Marty Sohl | Met Opera
Nadine Sierra's thrilling Violetta deserves better than Michael Mayer's superficial production revived at the Metropolitan Opera.
**111
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Méphistophélès steals the show in Staatsoper's Faust

Adam Palka shines as the devil in this revival of Frank Castorf's multimedia staging that relocates the work to mid-20th century Paris, around the end of the Algerian War.
****1
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