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International Opera

All opera reviews from sources other that the UK

Gatti leads superb cast in Rome Opera’s Les vêpres siciliennes

24/02/202027/12/2019 by Rick Perdian

ItalyItaly Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes: Soloists, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet / Daniele Gatti (conductor). Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi, Rome, 22.12.2019. (RP)

Michele Pertusi (Procida) © Yasuko Kageyama

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Monastyrska’s sumptuous Tosca fits Rome Opera’s reconstruction of original 1900 production

24/02/202023/12/2019 by Rick Perdian

ItalyItaly Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Orchestra and Chorus / Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor), Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi, Rome, 20.12.2019. (RP)

Liudmyla Monastyrska (Tosca) & Claudio Sgura (Scarpia) © Yasuko Kageyama

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Visually bland, emotionally intelligent new Don Pasquale wraps up 2019 for the Opernhaus Zürich

24/02/202022/12/2019 by Casey Creel

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Donizetti, Don Pasquale: Soloists and Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich / Enrique Mazzola (conductor). Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich, 15.12.2019. (CCr)

Opernhaus Zürich’s Don Pasquale (c) Monika Rittershaus

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Komische Oper Berlin’s Semele is significantly greater than the sum of its considerable parts

24/02/202020/12/2019 by Mark Berry

GermanyGermany Handel, Semele: Soloists, Chorus (chorus director: David Cavelius) and Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin / Konrad Junghänel (conductor). Komische Oper, Berlin, 18.12.2019 (MB)

Komische Oper Berlin’s Semele (c) Monika Rittershaus

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An impressive Amartuvshin Enkhbat proves to be a true Verdi baritone in Valencia’s Nabucco

24/02/202016/12/2019 by José Irurzun

SpainSpain Verdi, Nabucco: Generalitat Valenciana Chorus, Comunitat Valenciana Orchestra / Jordi Bernàcer (conductor). Palau de Les Arts, Valencia, 14.12.2019. (JMI)

Nabucco (c) Miguel Lorenzo and Mikel Ponce

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Vienna State Opera’s Die Zauberflöte contains barely a hint of magic

21/01/202016/12/2019 by Mark Berry

AustriaAustria Mozart, Die Zauberflöte: Soloists, Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus director: Martin Schebesta), Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / James Conlon (conductor). Vienna State Opera, Vienna, 10.12.2019. (MB)

Andrea Carroll (Pamina) (c) Wiener Staatsoper

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Sparkling Tales of Hoffmann ends Buenos Aires 2019 season

21/01/202013/12/2019 by Jonathan Spencer Jones

ArgentinaArgentina Offenbach, Les contes d’Hoffmann: Soloists and Orchestra / Enrique Arturo Diemecke (conductor), Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 6.12.2019. (JSJ)

Rachel Gilmore (Olympia) and Ramón Vargas (Hoffmann) (c) Máximo Parpagnoli

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Roberto Alagna is outstanding in the Liceu’s Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci

21/01/202012/12/2019 by José Irurzun
Aleksandra Kurzak (Nedda) and Roberto Alagna (Canio) in Pagliacci
(c) A. Bofill

SpainSpain Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana, & Leoncavallo, Pagliacci: Liceu Chorus & Orchestra / Henrik Nánási (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 9 & 10.12.2019. (JMI)

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