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Aida

Aida was conceived by Verdi as the grandest of grand opera for Cairo in 1871 as a great spectacle. It is intrinsically Egyptian with pyramids temples ...
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Il Barbiere di Seviglia

Five stars are not sufficient for probably the best production I have ever seen! Its debut was last year in Salzburg and will undoubtedly be revived a...
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L’Orfeo
Opéra-marionnettes

This sole Monaco performance was unique as it was performed entirely by puppets from the renowned Carlo Colla puppet theatre. Monte Carlo opera is ...
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The Dead City
Die Tote Stadt

Shame on the Arts Council for effectively reducing London to one opera house, making it the poor man of Europe, less attractive to singers and tourist...
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La Traviata

Many of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas expose prejudice against social outcasts. Rigoletto - a hunchback, Il Trovatore - gypsies, La Forza del Destino - a mi...
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Turandot

Puccini died before completing Turandot; music after the death of Liù was composed by Franco Alfano. At its 1926 première, conductor Toscanini stopped...
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Il Viaggio a Reims

Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825, for Charles X’s coron...
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Andrea Chénier,

Umberto Giordano used the true story of the poet Andrea Chénier, guillotined in 1794 aged 32, three days before the end of the Terror as inspiration f...
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Alcina

Monte Carlo Opera has a new, and for the first time, female artistic director, the Queen of Coloratura, Cecilia Bartoli. With Alcina, Handel concludes...