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Canadian Opera's Orfeo returns elegant, restrained and very satisfying
The restrained beauty of Robert Carsen’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is matched by musical elegance in its revival current revival at the Four Seasons Centre.
Così fan tutte straight out of the Age of Enlightenment in Leeds
Tim Albery's Opera North production is successfully revived, with a new cast.
Oropesa, Crebassa and Scappucci shine at La Scala
Speranza Scappucci leads a dream team of singers in Bellini’s masterpiece, in a new production by Adrian Noble.
The Carsen effect: brilliant Iphigénie in Paris
The Canadian director's aesthetic is a perfect fit for Gluck's work. Dazzling performances by Gaëlle Arquez and Stéphane Degout. Great musical direction by Thomas Hengelbrock.
A minimalist reading of Orfeo ed Euridice in Rome
Robert Carsen's minimalist modern reading of Gluck's masterpiece is a pure distillation of opera (and life) and the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.
A gentle, sympathetic Capriccio at Garsington
An affirmation of the importance of cultural values in the face of the abyss, or Richard Strauss fiddling while Europe burnt? Tim Albery's production leaves it to us to decide.