An outstanding account of Handel’s Deidamia at Wexford

IrelandIreland Wexford Festival Opera 2025 [3] – Handel, Deidamia: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / George Petrou (conductor). O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, 26.10.2925. (RB)

Bruno de Sá (l, Achilles) and Sophie Junker (c, Deidamia) and members of the cast of Deidamia © Pádraig Grant

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An excellent Wexford performance cannot disguise the flaws in Delius’s The Magic Fountain

IrelandIreland Wexford Festival Opera 2025 [2] – Delius, The Magic Fountain: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Francesco Cilluffo (conductor). O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, 25.10.2025. (RB)

Wexford Festival Opera’s The Magic Fountain © Pádraig Grant

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Conductor Eun Sun Kim and a committed cast make Parsifal soar at San Francisco Opera

United StatesUnited States Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of San Francisco Opera / Eun Sun Kim (conductor). War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 25.10.2025. (HS)

Klingsor (Falk Struckmann) reprimands Kundry (Tanja Ariane Baumgartner) in SFO’s Parsifal © Cory Weaver

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Britten’s Albert Herring provided impressive entertainment in ENO’s first foray to Salford’s Lowry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Britten, Albert Herring: Soloists, members of the Orchestra of English National Opera / Daniel Cohen (conductor). Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, 22.10.2025. (MC)

Carolyn Dobbin (Florence Pike) and Emma Bell (Lady Billows) © Genevieve Girling

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Nadine Sierra is the Amina of your dreams in the Met’s new La Sonnambula

United StatesUnited States Bellini, La Sonnambula: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Riccardo Frizza (conductor). Recorded live (directed by Gary Halbvorson) at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 18.10.2025 and viewed as an encore showing at the Everyman Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex. (JPr)

Nadine Sierra (Amina) in La Sonnambula Act II © Marty Sohl/Met Opera

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