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Hannu Lintu’s arrival at the Singapore Symphony Orchestra could well take the distinguished recording orchestra to even greater heights ✨

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Huffman's new Tosca at @glyndebourne

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‘Debuting as Lady Macbeth, Davidsen thrilled and chilled, with tigerish hauteur and colossal presence and strength’

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✍️Andrew Mellor

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‘Making her house debut in the pit, indeed her first time conducting opera in Germany, Karina Canellakis drew great playing from the orchestra’

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✍️ Mark Pullinger

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‘It all feels superficial in a production that, below the surface, could easily be half a decade old’

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✍️Hugo Shirley

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‘Unfortunately this production is held back by the disappointing source material.’

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✍️Jonathan Whiting

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Tenor and director Rolando Villazón stars in a new short film to celebrate the United Nations International Day of Forests🌲

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‘Magdelena Kožená is an ideal match as a suavely suited Fox, the mezzo’s voice as mellifluous as ever.’

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✍️ Hugo Shirley

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‘Conductor Stuart Stratford and the orchestra evoked a surreal timeless atmosphere bolstered by Shozan Hasegawa’s mesmerising breathy note-bending shakuhachi passages’

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✍️Susan Nickalls

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‘Mariotti is a master in this repertoire and conducted with great affection for Verdi’s score, highlighting the Tyrolean colouring and driving climaxes with spirit’

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✍️ Mark Pullinger

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‘In their different ways both James Newby’s bottled-up, frequently verge-of-serious-anger Count and Liam James Karai’s more happy-go-lucky Figaro hit exactly the right vocal spots’

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✍️George Hall

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‘Sebastian Fagerlund and Gunilla Hemming’s new opera presents a powerful snapshot of a society in the grip of sudden crisis’

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✍️Andrew Mellor

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‘There’s no arguing with the way Wilde and Culpajevs rise to Korngold’s sometimes outlandish vocal demands’

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✍️ Hugo Shirley

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Ralph Fiennes takes his curtain call after making his opera directing debut @operadeparis

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‘A stylish, faithful Onegin marks Ralph Fiennes’ opera directing debut’

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✍️ Mark Pullinger

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'Giacomo Sagripanti’s conducting was incredibly precise'

✍️Francis Muzzu

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'With singing this glorious, it’s wise to steer directorially clear'

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✍️Robert Levine

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‘The entire cast gives their all to this wacky piece of absurdist theatre’

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✍️George Hall

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'The shining jewel(s) of this production are the performances both onstage and in the pit'

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✍️Jonathan Whiting

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