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LondonAfterlife: Visions of the Beyond
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BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Ryan Bancroft; Mari Eriksmoen; Paula Murrihy; James Way; Szymon Mechliński
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Nicola Luisotti; Carlos Wagner; Teatro Real; Frank Philipp Schlößmann; Jon Morrell; Nicol Hungsberg; Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real
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A Byzantine affair: Szymanowski's Król Roger in Berlin
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After more than 40 years, Szymanowski's Król Roger returned to Berlin with the Poznań Opera Orchestra and Jacek Kaspszyk on the podium - but the result was not exactly ecstatic.
Scattered borrowings fail to cohere in COC's new Faust
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Amy Lane's scattered borrowings from Tim Burton to Stanley Kubrick fail to cohere in the Canadian Opera Company's new Faust.
Outstanding voices, compelling drama: Maria Stuarda at DNO
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Extraordinary performances from Kristina Mkhitaryan and Aigul Akhmetshina turn Donizetti's take on Schiller into an intense psychological portrait of power struggle.
Turbo-charged Trovatore: Verdi at full throttle in Fidenza
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All you need to stage Trovatore, according to Enrico Caruso, are “the four greatest singers in the world”. The Verdi Festival may have found the four loudest...
Wexford revives Mercadante's Il bravo
Mercadante's score proves to be something of a missing link between bel canto and early Verdi.
Tears on the picnic lawn: Madama Butterfly at Glyndebourne
After dipping its toe in the cherry blossom for Glyndebourne's Tour in 2016, Annilese Miskimmon's staging of Puccini's gut-wrencher hits the main festival.