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Andrés Salado; Emilio Sagi; Teatro de la Zarzuela; Daniel Bianco; Jesús Ruiz; Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid; Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid
LondonAbomination: A DUP Opera
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Tom Deering; The Belfast Ensemble; Rebecca Caine; Tony Flynn
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Verdi: Falstaff
Friedrich Haider; Andrea Moses; Staatsoper Stuttgart; Jan Pappelbaum; Anna Eiermann; Reinhard Traub; Staatsorchester Stuttgart
LeipzigDer Freischütz
Weber: Der Freischütz
Lukas Beikircher; Christian von Götz; Oper Leipzig; Dieter Richter; Jessica Karge; Michael Münster; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
ZurichOrphée et Euridice
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Stefano Montanari; Christoph Marthaler; Zurich Opera; Anna Viebrock; Martin Gebhardt; Philharmonia Zürich
LondonSeven Ages
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Mark Padmore; Roderick Williams; Julius Drake; Rory Kinnear
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Urgent and intense: Innocence opens at the Royal Opera House
Kaija Saariaho's opera – staged by Simon Stone and the hit of the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival – makes its UK debut.
Reaching for the light: Arvo Pärt and Robert Wilson's Adam's Passion
For the first time in Italy the opera that brings together the spiritual music of the Estonian composer and the minimalist direction of Robert Wilson.
Sir David McVicar's new Trittico a triumph for Scottish Opera
Scottish Opera’s 60th birthday present proves a triumph, with outstanding singing from Karen Cargill, Sunyoung Seo, Viktor Antipenko and Roland Wood.
Hilarious Périchole sends up Austrian political scandals
“Lima darf nicht Österreich werden!” Offenbach's operetta is set in Lima, but really it’s Vienna in director Nikolaus Habjan uproarious production.
Irish National Opera’s Least like the other at the Linbury
Brian Irvine and Netia Jones pull no punches in telling the story of Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK and Bobby, left permanently disabled by a lobotomy at the age of 23
Eternal life for the downtrodden? A Janáček double bill in Brno
Jakub Hrůša leads a musically thrilling but dramatically problematic From the House of the Dead and Glagolitic Mass at the 2022 Janáček Brno International Festival.
Mozart’s Entführung as a jukebox musical in Zurich
The Opernhaus Zurich revives a 2016 production by David Hermann, where the spoken dialogue is removed and the story completely altered.
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Barclay, BillBayeux, BrunoBeitia, GurutzeBenini, LilianaBernardin, StefanoBodin, BérengèreBodnar, MarcBoucault, JeanCapaldi, PeterCarrière, FrançoiseClamer, RaphaelColin, PandoraCsémy, BalázsDanker, EliDe Schutter, MarjanDoujenis, DanielDrole, RubenElkashef, AidaFlorian AndererFlynn, TonyFox, FreddieFranssen, SanneGedeck, MartinaGenn, LilianGoodman, HenryGrant, Richard E.Hagg, NicolausHauser, SigridHecq, ChristianHeppling, ElinHierholzer, VerenaIzaguirre, BorisKinnear, RoryKluth, SimonKoelbl, AntonLandauer, BernhardLaudenbach, ManniMcGowan, AlistairMorris Mehnert, MickMüller, MaxNatter, ChristianNowak, CezaryOckenfels, TiborRasse, JohnnySchmidt, BerndSigurjónsson, Almar BlærStreiff, SamuelStrobele, AlexanderTBCThibaud, PatriceTobler, NicoleUnknownValentine, Graham F.Xavier Laforgevan Vliet, Hanna