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The Importance of Being Earnest review – gloriously madcap opera achieves new heights of delirium

Gerald Barry’s take on Wilde’s comedy is even wittier and zanier in Jack Furness’s hyperactive staging – complete with a grand piano on stilts, a herd of cows and a kangaroo that meets a grisly end

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Il Ritorno d’Ulisse review – a sensuous slice of opulence and luxury

Director John Caird and conductor Laurence Cummings bring Monteverdi back to the Chiltern Hills with polished, festive inclusivity

The Guardian - UK

La Traviata review – gripping and genuinely moving staging opens Garsington’s summer season

Louisa Muller’s richly detailed production of Verdi’s tragedy is elevated by Madison Leonard’s magnetic Violetta and Douglas Boyd’s musical direction that reinvigorates the familiar score

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Rodelinda review – powerplay and pig’s blood in thrillingly energised Handel

Ruth Knight’s production captures the menace and high stakes in this deliciously devilish power struggle with Lucy Crowe whirling her sword like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Pekka Kuusisto & Norwegian Chamber Orchestra: DSCH; Camerata RCO – review

A top cast and young local chorus share the honours in Netia Jones’s stylish new Britten staging; Finnish live-wire Pekka Kuusisto and friends conjure Shostakovich in the dark. Plus, Bruckner’s 6th for 10 players…

The Guardian - UK

Un Giorno di Regno review – fizzing revival of Verdi’s failed comedy

While it might have been cancelled after the premiere in 1840, Christopher Alden’s frenetic staging, an effervescent Philharmonia Orchestra and a fine cast show there’s a decent evening’s entertainment in there

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The week in classical: Platée; Tosca review – a reality TV winner and shades of Callas

Breathless action and Rameau’s fizzing score ignite in Louisa Muller’s ingenious take on French baroque, while Stephen Barlow’s 60s-set Puccini sparkles in a long-overdue revival

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Ariadne auf Naxos review – austere staging makes room for the riches of Strauss

Natalya Romaniw’s Ariadne shines in an unfussy production that is, at its best, breathtakingly effective and beautiful

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The songs chosen by orchestras and choirs around the country as tributes to the Queen

The works of English composers were tribute favourites

Evening Standard

‘Anyone – you, me, everybody – could be Dalia’: Garsington’s refugee community opera

Performed by amateurs and professionals, Dalia – the tender story of a displaced girl who finds acceptance through cricket – is a rebuke to the UK’s increasingly cruel immigration policy

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Rusalka review – Natalya Romaniw is a rapturously magnificent water nymph

Romaniw unleashes an overwhelming torrent of sound and emotion in a spectacular production that imbues Dvořák’s fairytale with sinister magic

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