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Renée Fleming puts her directorial stamp on a classic Mozart opera in Aspen

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United StatesUnited States Aspen Music Festival 2025 [6] – Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Aspen Opera Theatre and VocalARTS / Patrick Summers (conductor). Wheeler Opera House, Aspen, 21.7.2025. (HS)

Finn Sagal (Guglielmo) and Jonghyun Park (Ferrando) don pro-wrestling costumes from Peter Barber (Don Alfonso) © Diego Redel

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Beauty and Beachy Head: new music inspired by the South Downs from the Orchestra of Sound and Light

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Various: Loré Lixenberg (voice), Helen Whitaker (flute), Alison Hughes (clarinet & bass clarinet), Rachel Fryer (keyboards), Lee Westwood (electric guitar), Joe Giddey (cello), Ed Hughes (director). Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, 13.7.2025. (CK)

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Haunted rooms and fractured time: Vanessa reimagined at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

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United StatesUnited States Williamstown Theatre Festival – Barber, Vanessa: Soloists, Musicians of the Heartbeat Opera / Dan Schlosberg (conductor). Williamstown Theatre Festival Annex, North Adams, 20.7.2025. (ES-S)

Mary Phillips (Baroness), Ori Marcu (Erika) and Roy Hage (Anatol) © Maria Branova

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Barrie Kosky’s minimally staged, flawed Royal Opera Walküre, is great music theatre nonetheless

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wagner, Walküre: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Peter Jones) from the Royal Opera House, London, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 14.5.2025. (JPr)

Soloman Howard (Hunding), Natalya Romaniw (Sieglinde) and Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Siegmund) © RBO/Monika Rittershaus

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