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A visually striking Nabucco lacks heart in Parma ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-nabucco…

A visually striking Nabucco lacks heart at the Festival Verdi

Pier Luigi Pizzi’s staging looks impressive but feels empty. Lidia Fridman’s Abigaille ignites the evening.

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Nile spectacular: Franco Zeffirelli’s intimate Aida revived in Busseto @RegioParma bachtrack.com/review-aida-ze…

Nile spectacular: Franco Zeffirelli’s intimate Aida revived in Busseto

Franco Zeffirelli’s Aida – compact yet simultaneously monumental – is thrilling revived at the tiny Teatro Verdi in Busseto.

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A 300-seater theatre + Franco Zeffirelli's Aida? How does that work? Read our 5* review! ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-aida-ze…

Nile spectacular: Franco Zeffirelli’s intimate Aida revived in Busseto

Franco Zeffirelli’s Aida – compact yet simultaneously monumental – is thrilling revived at the tiny Teatro Verdi in Busseto.

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Premieres in motion at Wet Ink’s season opener ✍️ Kurt Gottschalk bachtrack.com/review-wet-ink…

Premieres in motion at Wet Ink’s season opener

A concert of “works in progress” at Zürcher Gallery in Manhattan’s East Village.

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A spellbinding Turn of the Screw from Victorian Opera in Melbourne ✍️ Sandra Bowdler bachtrack.com/review-turn-of…

A spellbinding Turn of the Screw from Victorian Opera

Rachelle Durkin shines leading a perfect cast in a totally spellbinding production by Stuart Maunder of Britten's The Turn of the Screw in Melbourne.

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Opulence and vigour from Seong-Jin Cho and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ✍️ Max Lima bachtrack.com/review-slobode…

Opulence and vigour from Seong-Jin Cho in Amsterdam

Under the baton of Dima Slobodeniouk, stepping in for Joana Mallwitz, the evening swings from Tchaikovsky to Stravinsky and Strauss.

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The double bass enjoys the Sage Two limelight @RNSinfonia @glasshouseicm ✍️ Nick Butters bachtrack.com/review-duerden…

The double bass enjoys the limelight at Sage Two, Gateshead

Will Duerden leads from behind in an eclectic treasure chest of rarely heard delights.

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Frank Martin’s fascinating La Tempête opens the season at the Grand Théâtre de Genève @GrandTheatreGE ✍️ Romain Daroles bachtrack.com/critique-la-te…

Frank Martin’s fascinating La Tempête opens the Geneva season

Having all but faded from memory, the Swiss composer’s hybrid work takes the audience by surprise. Yet the musical direction and the cast do it justice – in stark contrast to the flat staging.

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Storms without the stress: Daniel Harding and the @BerlinPhil in Mahler 2 ✍️ Hugo Shirley bachtrack.com/review-harding…

Storms without the stress: Daniel Harding and the Berliner Phil

Drama, precision and high-definition contrast in a thrilling Resurrection Symphony at the Philharmonie.

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Bihlmaier’s Boulanger and Brahms have moments of beauty and restraint @BBCPhilharmonic ✍️ Leighton Jones bachtrack.com/review-bihlmai…

Bihlmaier’s Boulanger and Brahms have moments of beauty and restraint

Anja Bihlmaier draws committed playing from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in a choral programme including Brahms’ German Requiem with the Audi Jugendchorakademie.

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The Vestal's Tale: Lydia Steier's dystopian La Vestale opens in Berlin ✍️ Elena Luporini bachtrack.com/review-spontin…

The Vestal's Tale: Lydia Steier's dystopian La Vestale in Berlin

Carlo Rizzi's conducting and a strong vocal cast led by Sonya Yoncheva partially make up for Lydia Steier's misdirected staging in the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's production of Spontini's opera.

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Sheffield season takes off in thrilling fashion with The Firebird @the_halle ✍️ Phil Parker bachtrack.com/review-kahchun…

Sheffield season takes off in thrilling fashion with The Firebird

Is a concert ever worth more than five stars? This one – from the Hallé, Kahchun Wong and Sir Steven Hough – may well be.

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Warning and consolation: Britten's War Requiem from the @LPOrchestra and Edward Gardner ✍️ Roy Westbrook bachtrack.com/review-gardner…

Warning and consolation: Britten's War Requiem from the LPO

Edward Gardner conducts an exceptionally fine account of a work that is taxing to prepare – and even, in some senses, to hear.

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Federica Lombardi and Samantha Hankey shine in the @MetOpera’s Coney Island Così fan tutte revival ✍️ Susan Stempleski bachtrack.com/review-cosi-fa…

Federica Lombardi and Samantha Hankey shine in the Met’s Così revival

The Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Phelim McDermott’s bustling production combines circus-like hijinks with superb singing and acting from a fine cast.

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From chamber intimacy to the edge of chaos: James Ehnes and Xian Zhang in Seattle @seattlesymphony ✍️ Thomas May bachtrack.com/review-zhang-e…

From chamber intimacy to the edge of chaos: Ehnes and Zhang in Seattle

James Ehnes brings chamber-like intimacy to Bruch before Xian Zhang drives Symphonie fantastique from private obsession to hallucinatory spectacle.

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Colour and light: Ensemble 360 shimmer in trios in Sheffield @MusicintheRound ✍️ Phil Parker bachtrack.com/review-ensembl…

Colour and light: Ensemble 360 shimmer in trios in Sheffield

Can you shrink La Mer into a piano trio? Ensemble 360 shows how it might be done, alongside a sparkling new work for trio forces by Dani Howard.

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Baroque’n’roll Vivaldi from Pekka Kuusisto and Ale Carr in @auroraorchestra jam session at the @southbankcentre ✍️ Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/review-kuusist…

Baroque’n’roll Vivaldi from Pekka Kuusisto in Aurora jam session

Swedish folk musician Ale Carr joins the multi-faceted Finn and Aurora Orchestra in an unconventional but brilliant take on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

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The White Pearl: New Zealand Opera reframes Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles ✍️ Simon Holden bachtrack.com/review-pearl-f…

The White Pearl: NZ Opera reframes Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles

In Auckland, heard in something close to the form Bizet actually conceived, The Pearl Fishers proves it has plenty of lustre of its own.

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From Bachian buoyancy to Ravelian vertigo: Yulianna Avdeeva in Seattle ✍️ Thomas May bachtrack.com/review-yuliann…

From Bachian buoyancy to Ravelian vertigo: Yulianna Avdeeva in Seattle

Yulianna Avdeeva traces a compelling path from Bach and Beethoven to an all-Ravel second half, crowned by a La Valse of tremendous power and disintegration.

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When I read an opera review I don't want musicology, I want to experience a simple transportation into the audience. Like this model of the craft by @larkingrumple. #Tosca @bachtrack

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Firing blanks: Tosca, the inaugural production by Oxford International Opera, underwhelms... bachtrack.com/review-tosca-t…

Firing blanks: Oxford International Opera’s aimless Tosca

The inaugural production of Oxford's new “international” company lacks direction, but Carmen Giannattasio’s Tosca makes the trip worthwhile.

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