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Tumble down the 2024 rabbit hole of summer opera festival delight.
Tumble down the 2024 rabbit hole of summer opera festival delight.
Opera is not just for Christmas. But there’s no shortage of stellar productions around to offer a flying start to the festive season.
In the closing moments, Mears delivered a coup de théâ which left his audience visibly shaken.
As expected, Maestra Keri-Lynn Wilson masterfully set off Verdi’s musical fireworks at the Royal Opera House.
It would be an exaggeration to portray Puccini as being on a political mission. But he does make a sly dig at the transition to absolute dictatorship underway in Italy.
Kasper Holten’s production of Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House features a top-notch cast and adds fresh twists to a familiar tale.
While The Blue Woman tackles important themes of sexual violence, the Royal Opera House production misses the mark.
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