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Top ten operas 2022

This was the year that opera houses got back to something approaching “normality” post-pandemic. It’s easy to forget that at the start of 2022, Covid restrictions were still very much in place: visiting Vienna in January, one needed proof of … Continue reading

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Mob mentality: a powerful La Juive at Opera Vlaanderen

Halévy: La Juive Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp, 10th March 2019 Watching an Orthodox Jew walking down the Keyserlei, a street packed with jewellers, it struck me that Antwerp, with its prolific diamond trade, would be a good setting for Fromental Halévy’s … Continue reading

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