The storytelling impresses in Amy Lane’s (mostly) straightforward new Longborough Die Walküre

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera [3] – Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Long borough Festival Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Recorded at Loughborough (directed by Matthew Dilley) on 26.6.2024 and available on OperaVision and YouTube until 9.2.2025. (JPr)

Paul Carey Jones (Wotan) and Madeleine Shaw (Fricka) © Matthew Williams-Ellis

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Andreas Homoki’s Carmen returns full circle to Paris’s Opéra-Comique at the EIF

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2024 [4]: Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Accentus, Maitrise Populaire de l’Opéra-Comique, Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Louis Langrée (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 8.8.2024 (SRT)

Opéra-Comique’s Carmen: the smugglers’ quintet © Andrew Perry

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Extravagance and excellence vie in Meyerbeer’s Le prophète at Bard SummerScape

United StatesUnited States Meyerbeer, Le prophète: Soloists, ‘Marche du Sacre’ Banda, Bard Festival Chorus, Dancers, Enfants, American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein (conductor). Bard SummerScape, Fisher Center at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 4.8.2024. (RP)

Robert Watson (Jean de Leyde) © Andy Henderson

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Fine singing but problematic conducting as Der fliegende Holländer is revived at Bayreuth

GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2024 [2] – Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Oksana Lyniv (conductor). Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 1.8.2024. (MB)

Der fliegende Holländer Act II: Elisabeth Teige (Senta) and Eric Cutler (Erik) © Enrico Nawrath

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Garsington Opera’s A Trip to the Moon will have children and adults delight in the magic of live theatre

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Garsington Opera 2024 [5] – Andrew Norman, A Trip to the Moon: Soloists, Garsington Opera Adult and Youth Companies, Primary and Infant School Companies, and Philharmonia Orchestra / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 30.7.2024. (CR)

Garsington Opera’s A Trip to the Moon © Julian Guidera

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