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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera at Staatsoper Unter den Linden | Live Review - Opera Now

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By Hugo Shirley Verified
| opera-now.com
Fine playing from the Staatskapelle to underpin a performance where there’s little doubt that the voices come first ⭐⭐⭐ Of all Verdi’s operas, few suffered more than Un ballo in maschera from the intervention of censors, its action – originally based loosely on events in late 18th-century Sweden – being variously relocated in time and space before eventually landing in colonial Boston, a setting remote enough to be politically innocuous.
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Janáček's 'The Cunning Little Vixen' at Staatsoper Berlin | Live Review - Opera Now

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By Hugo Shirley Verified
| opera-now.com
'The Staatskapelle Berlin, trained up over the cycle into a Janáček orchestra to be reckoned with, plays superbly, capturing the score’s dewy, sinewy beauty magnificently' **** The Berlin Staatsoper’s leisurely Janáček cycle, with Simon Rattle as a benign presiding spirit, has been one of the house’s most consistent achievements over recent years, musically at any rate.
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Heroes and Beasts: Die Frau ohne Schatten in Warsaw

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By Hugo Shirley Verified
| Bachtrack
It’s taken over a century for Die Frau ohne Schatten to make it to Warsaw’s Polish National Opera. And the company has now followed recent productions of Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos – its first tentative steps into music by Richard Strauss – by bringing Mariusz Treliński’s smart, serious staging of this grand allegorical fairy tale (first seen in Lyon in 2023) to the generous stage of the Teatr Wielki.
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