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Month: February 2024

Opera Holland Park 2024 season

Opera Holland Park’s 2024 Season opens to press and public on 28 May with a revival of StephenBarlow’s sharp and seductive 2008 production of Tosca, new productions of The Barber of Seville(sponsored by Viking) and Acis and Galatea, three semi-staged performances of Puccini’s earlyromance, Edgar, a sensational double bill contrasting John Wilkie’s stylish 2019 staging…

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Così Fan Tutte, Welsh National Opera

Wales Millennium Centre *** There are some works which are harder to look at under a modern lens than others, and Così Fan Tutte is certainly one of that number. To bring to a stage, in 2024, a work that is literally titled ‘they’re all the same’ is inevitably to contend with its glaring sexism,…

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CASTS ANNOUNCED FOR BUXTON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL’S FIVE BRAND NEW OPERA PRODUCTIONS

Buxton International Festival (4-21 July) has announced the line-up of artists for its five new opera productions this summer. Adrian Kelly, artistic director, said: “This summer’s season contains a huge range of repertoire, and the Festival has once gone all out to assemble a formidable line-up of soloists.” Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Ernani’,July 6, 10, 12, 14…

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