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Lend me your ears: Battistelli's Julius Caesar charms Rome
The Teatro dell'Opera opens its season with the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli and Ian Burton's new Shakespearean work, under the baton of Daniele Gatti and the direction of Robert Carsen.
Clown court: Offenbach's Fantasio at Garsington
The UK stage debut of Offenbach’s neglected Fantasio reveals a musical sizzler, but directorially it needs a more sympathetic touch than Garsington musters.
Hot ice and strange snow
In Siberian conditions more akin to The Winter's Tale, a revival of Robert Carsen's season setting of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream offered a warm glow at the Coliseum.
Le nozze di Figaro at Garsington
A slick production from the Garsington Opera Company, who use the location of the Wormley Estate to their full advantage.
Wigglesworth's Shakespeare full of eloquent clarity
An operatic take on The Winter's Tale – categorised as one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’ – premieres at English National Opera.
A stern Father's Day treat: Mozart Idomeneo at Garsington
Mozart's messy monster of an opera gets a brutalist tidy-up at Garsington, but the determinedly straightforward reading only makes this work's innate problems more obvious.