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‘Throughout, the score felt freshly imagined yet true to Puccini’s spirit—musical storytelling that reinforced the production’s vitality and made this oft-told tale feel piercingly alive’. ✍🏻Thomas May. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Full review:
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You think you’ve gotten over La bohème. Then a performance comes along and shatters your defences, breaking your heart again
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‘It remains unclear whether Santa Fe Opera is laying the groundwork for a complete Ring. But with this thoroughly involving production, the company has shown that it’s ready to take on the challenge.’. ✍🏻Thomas May. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Read the full review online:
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The spirit of exploration is vividly reflected in the vision of British director Melly Still
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‘Santa Fe Opera’s new Rigoletto delivers flashes of vitality that help compensate for a staging that is often muddled’ . ✍🏻Thomas May. ⭐️⭐️⭐️. Full review:
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If Chavaz’s concept never fully cohered, the musical values—and especially the strong performance from Villalón—kept Verdi’s dark fable emotionally engaging
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France’s flagship lyric theatre is determined to lead the opera streaming market with its bold new platform, POP
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‘A good Macbeth should scare you; a great one should creep under your skin, leave you scrubbing your thoughts of persistent blood-spots’. ⭐️⭐️⭐️. ✍🏻Alexandra Coghlan . Full review:
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The real musical thrills here are all on the stage. Male and female choruses set the tone: zingy, strongly projected and articulated – serious talent-in-waiting
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'Musically there’s plenty to enjoy even if both casts proved uneven'.⭐️⭐️⭐️.✍️Mark Pullinger.Full review:
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Musically there’s plenty to enjoy even if both casts proved uneven
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'Ogilvie’s vision is far from a benign one'.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.✍️Alexandra Coghlan .Full review:
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Light – and its lack – is everything in Ogilvie’s production
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'The conclusion from this absorbing and enjoyable production might be that Beethoven’s vision is best served undiluted — either as a period-piece…albeit with bags of imagination…or in an entirely updated production.'.⭐⭐⭐.✍️Andrew Green.Full review:
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What, then, of approaches to staging Fidelio, given its all too authentic depiction of a dimension of early 19th-century life under despotic, dysfunctional power structures…
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'The cast is huge and the ensembles were zingy in this revival under conductor Michele Spotti, whipping up the orchestral froth in the pit.'.⭐⭐⭐⭐.✍️Mark Pullinger.Full review:
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Barrie Kosky gets that Offenbach’s 'Les Brigands' was a vicious social satire on the Second Empire, a year before its fall
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'Even without the best tunes, this Faust was very much the devil’s show'.⭐⭐⭐⭐.✍️Mark Pullinger.Full review:.
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Opéra de Lille, in a co-production with the Opéra-Comique and Bru Zane, brings the 1859 version back to Paris
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'The profoundly disturbing subject matter is ingeniously handled by director Cordula Däuper'.⭐⭐⭐⭐.✍️Mark Pullinger.Full review here:
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Voice Killer is the operatic equivalent of a true crime docudrama
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'It was a jaw-dropping piece of singing, affirmed by a roaring audience. Yes, definitely spinto enough!'.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.✍️Mark Pullinger.Full review here:
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Netrebko’s soprano has the ideal colour and weight for Lisa
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RT @GramophoneMag: 🌟 Vote for Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year 2025! 🌟. Gramophone editor Martin Cullingford (@MrPhoebus) introduces eac….
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RT @larkingrumple: A cut above: Patricia Nolz leads a superior Barber of Seville @WrStaatsoper ✂️💈.Read my review of last night's fab Barbi….
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Without gimmickry, it simply trusts in Rossini’s music and the cast at this 439th performance had a ball to produce a truly memorable evening
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. 'Music director Eun Sun Kim showed solid Mozartian credentials as she revelled in the score’s fecund, almost kaleidoscopic invention'. Mozart: Idomeneo at San Francisco Opera. ✍️ Thomas May | Read 👇.
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'Music director Eun Sun Kim showed solid Mozartian credentials as she revelled in the score’s fecund, almost kaleidoscopic invention'
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RT @GramophoneMag: Voting is now open for Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year Award!. Discover our shortlist of six ensembles who have produ….
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The only Gramophone Award decided by public vote, this prestigious accolade highlights ensembles who have produced exceptional recordings over the past year.
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'Where Mozart and Da Ponte explore class dynamics, the servants getting one over on the aristocracy, de Beer explores power and sex, focusing on the repression of women'. ⭐⭐. ✍️Mark Pullinger . Full review:
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De Beer’s staging is overstuffed with ideas, most of which should have been scrapped at the drawing board stage of development
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RT @AlexaCoghlan: "By turns beautiful and frustrating: review @Operanow of Colin Matthews and William Boyd's debut opera A Visit To Friend….
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NEWS: New season and Music Director announced at @E_N_O .
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André de Ridder will begin his tenure as music director in Autumn 2027
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. 'There was a time when Nicky Spence was being touted as a potential Heldentenor . Instead, he’s carved out a superb niche'. Britten: Peter Grimes at Welsh National Opera. Read 👇.
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Wearing 'Save our WNO' T-shirts at the curtain call, they were joined by the full orchestra and stage crew in a powerful demonstration of unity against the ongoing savage cuts to its funding that...
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