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Performer: Vito Priante

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Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Speranza Scappucci; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Agostino Cavalca; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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Donizetti’s Caterina Cornaro given a controversial update in Bergamo

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Francesco Micheli reimagines Caterina Cornaro in a contemporary setting, switching to the historical past, to open this year’s Donizetti Opera festival in the composer’s home town.
****1
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A hole in the heart: Salzburg Festival’s new Don Giovanni

The pairing of controversial director and bad-boy conductor brings some thrills but the Salzburg Festival's new Don Giovanni proves disappointingly uninvolving. 
***11
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Pappano leads The Royal Opera's return to action

After a few streamed events with chamber forces, the full orchestra and chorus returned to the House – albeit not in their usual positions – for an entertaining fundraising gala.
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Magical Flute: McVicar's Zauberflöte returns to Covent Garden

David McVicar’s imaginative staging of Mozart’s The Magic Flute comes back for its eighth run at the Royal Opera with an excellent new cast.

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An elephant in the room: Graham Vick's new Figaro opens in Rome

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Graham Vick stages his Marriage of Figaro in todays vulgarity, but he is not fully convincing.
***11
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Adina in Wonderland: Lisette Oropesa shines in Pesaro

The delightful farce in one act in a new, imaginative production inspired by Lewis Carroll.
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ParisIolanta/Casse-NoisetteNew production

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Tchaikovsky
Alain Altinoglu; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Opéra national de Paris; Elena Zaytseva; Gleb Filshtinsky; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

VeniceLa Favorite

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Donizetti: La Favorite
Donato Renzetti; Rosetta Cucchi; Teatro La Fenice; Massimo Checchetto; Claudia Pernigotti; Veronica Simeoni; John Osborn