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There are elements of Eurotrash in this outdoor Aix-en-Provence summer opera production. Nevertheless, the splendid singing and acting transform the story, normally treated as farce, into something considerably more serious. As many other critics have noted, the young lovers have not yet sorted everything out as this performance ends. Act One begins with the principal characters running around in the outdoor theater -- while the audience takes it in as if they had been advised to sit back and enjoy the novelty. Very likely they were also asked to refrain from applauding at the end of arias and ensemble pieces, in which the three-hour opera abounds. |
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Il Trovatore
The Metropolitan Opera: Tristan und Isolde
Death in Venice
Norma: Live from the Royal Opera House
The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte
Don Pasquale
Gounod: Faust
The Ring of the Nibelung: The tetralogy in one single evening with actors and marionettes
Gounod Faust
Sounds of Dortmund
Manon Lescaut
The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre
Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
Verdi: Otello
Don Carlo
Verdi Ernani
Verdi Un Ballo in Maschera
Giacomo Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots (Die Hugenotten)
Manon Lescaut
O Die Zee
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