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Collected opera and ballet reviews
United Kingdom Ravel, L’Heure espagnole, and L’Enfant et les sortilèges: Soloists, Chorus, Royal College of Music Opera Orchestra / Michael Rosewell (conductor), Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London, 7.12.2013
United States Lully and Molière, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: Soloists, Cornish Opera Theater, Stephen Stubbs (music director), Makaela Pollock (stage director), Anna Mansbridge (choreographer), Cornish Playhouse, Seattle, 18.10.2013 (BJ)
Spain Donizetti: L’Elisir d’Amore, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Real, Marc Piollet/Vicente Alberola (conductors), Teatro Real, Madrid, 6, 8 and 9.12.2013 (JMI).
Japan Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, 7.12.2013 (RP)
United Kingdom Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore (sung in Italian with surtitles in English): Soloists, RNCM Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Francesco Pasqualetti (conductor), RNCM Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, 8.12.2013. (RJF)
United States W.A. Mozart, Die Zauberflöte: Soloists, Virginia Opera, Mark Russell Smith (conductor), George Mason University Center for the Arts, Fairfax, VA 12.6.2013 (RRR)
Switzerland Beethoven: Fidelio Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich, Conductor: Fabio Luisi, Zurich Opera, Zurich. 8.12.2013. (JR)
United Kingdom Haas: London Sinfonietta, Emilio Pomàrico (conductor). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 6.12.2013 (MB)