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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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Roberto Kalb; James Robinson; Seattle Opera; Allen Moyer; Duane Schuler; Ashlee Naegle; Long Long
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Romantic piety and passion from Ryan Bancroft and BBC NOW

Paula Murrihy, Mari Eriksmoen, Ryan Bancroft and Szymon Mechliński © BBC | Mark Allan
A rare outing for Szymanowski's Stabat Mater forms the highlight of an imaginatively 'spiritual' Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.
****1
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A Byzantine affair: Szymanowski's Król Roger in Berlin

Król Roger performed in Berlin © Bartek Barczyk | Poznań Opera House
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. 
**111
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Scattered borrowings fail to cohere in COC's new Faust

Kyle Ketelsen (Méphistophélès) and Long Long (Faust) © Michael Cooper
Amy Lane's scattered borrowings from Tim Burton to Stanley Kubrick fail to cohere in the Canadian Opera Company's new Faust.
***11
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Outstanding voices, compelling drama: Maria Stuarda at DNO

Kristina Mkhitaryan (Maria Stuarda), Aigul Akhmetshina (Elisabetta) © Dutch National Opera | Ben van Duin
Extraordinary performances from Kristina Mkhitaryan and Aigul Akhmetshina turn Donizetti's take on Schiller into an intense psychological portrait of power struggle.
*****
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Turbo-charged Trovatore: Verdi at full throttle in Fidenza

Enkelejda Shkoza (Azucena) © Roberto Ricci
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...
***11
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Wexford revives Mercadante's Il bravo

Mercadante's score proves to be something of a missing link between bel canto and early Verdi. 
****1
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