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Kurzak and Alagna bring long-awaited star power to Michieletto’s Covent Garden Cav & Pag

10/07/202210/07/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana & Leoncavallo, Pagliacci: Soloists, Members of the Youth Opera Company, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 8.7.2022. (JPr)

Roberto Alagna (Canio) and Aleksandra Kurzak (Nedda) in *Pagliacci* © Tristram Kenton

David Alden’s Otello for Grange Park Opera is compelling from first note till last

06/07/202206/07/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom The Bamber Season 2022 – Verdi, Otello: Soloists, Chorus, The Gascoigne Orchestra / Gianluca Marcianò (conductor). Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, 3.7.2022. (JPr)

Elizabeth Llewellyn (Desdemona) and Gwyn Hughes Jones (Otello) (c) Marc Brenner

Grange Park Opera’s fine playing and singing redeems the almost irredeemable La Gioconda

05/07/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom The Bamber Season 2022 – Ponchielli, La Gioconda: Soloists, Chorus, The Gascoigne Orchestra / Stephen Barlow (conductor). Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, 2.7.2022. (JPr)

New Chamber Opera’s charming recreation of Cimarosa’s appealing Le astuzie femminili

05/07/2022 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom New Chamber Opera – Cimarosa, Le astuzie femminili (Feminine Shrewdness): Soloists, The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor). New College, Oxford, 29.6.2022. (CR)

Opera in the Warden’s Garden at New College (c) New Chamber Opera

While the production lacks magic, vocally and musically, Glyndebourne’s Alcina is a triumph

05/07/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2022 [3] – Handel Alcina (1735, ed. Flesch): Soloists, Dancers, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Jonathan Cohen (conductor) with Tom Foster (harpsichord continuo). Glyndebourne Opera House, Sussex, 2.7.2022. (CC)

Samantha Hankey (Ruggiero) and dancers © Tristram Kenton

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Kurzak and Alagna bring long-awaited star power to Michieletto’s Covent Garden Cav & Pag

David Alden’s Otello for Grange Park Opera is compelling from first note till last

Grange Park Opera’s fine playing and singing redeems the almost irredeemable La Gioconda

New Chamber Opera’s charming recreation of Cimarosa’s appealing Le astuzie femminili

While the production lacks magic, vocally and musically, Glyndebourne’s Alcina is a triumph

Elin Pritchard grabs her opportunity to shine as Rusalka in Garsington’s big success

A superb evening: Mercadante’s Il proscritto from Carlo Rizzi and Opera Rara

Much to admire in Parsifal from Opera North despite staging and casting missteps