Rossini Grand Opéra Overload
Carlo Rizzi's outstanding conducting saves Pesaro's Le Siège de Corinthe
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Suddenly, last summers' operas were over
Verdi at Opera Holland Park and Longborough, Tchaikovsky at the Grange Festival
Nurturing Nilsson's Legacy
The festival named for the great Swedish soprano promotes her young compatriots in opera - a rousing performance of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman - and recitals.
Populist/Political Wagner in Bayreuth
Rienzi gets its first historic staging at the Festspielhaus
Musical comedy toetappers as drama and "opera"
The Comédie Française restages Offenbach at the Châtelet; Opera North in Leeds lets its hair down with Rodgers and Hammerstein
Savonlinna showcases Oropesa's first Norma
Bellini's opera and Verdi's La traviata presented by Gothenburg Opera at Finland's top festival
Making Great Wagnerian Waves
Antonio Pappano conducts Tristan with the London Symphony Orchestra; Sara Jakubiak impresses in her debut as Isolde
Designer Dreamworlds
Francis O'Connor's dazzling visuals in Garsington's The Importance of Being Earnest and Grange Park Opera's The Barber of Seville
Puccini thrills and chills in concert
A starry Tosca in Birmingham, a valiant, if over-ambitious Turandot at Holland Park
Unmagical Flute's dismal coherence
Film-maker and installation artist Clément Cogitore serves up monochrome Mozart in Aix