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Lucia di Lammermoor review – Jennifer France is a delight in touching and convincing Donizetti staging

The unforced warmth of France’s heroine wins the audience’s sympathy from the outset in Cecilia Stinton’s thoughtful new staging of the bel canto bloodbath

The Guardian - UK

Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Holland Park review: the chorus is stiff but the leads soar

3/5 Jennifer France negotiates Donizetti’s exorbitant vocal demands with a blend of control and fearlessness that is wholly persuasive

Evening Standard

The week in classical: Jephtha; 7 Deaths of Maria Callas; Perfection, of a Kind: Britten vs Auden – review

Handel’s majestic final oratorio holds its own in Oliver Mears’s searching new production; Marina Abramović channels Maria Callas; and a well-told tale of when Britten met Auden

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Jephtha review – Clayton is magnificent as a wide-eyed zealot

Oliver Mears’s powerful but flawed staging of Handel’s biblical oratorio boasts very fine singing and performances, with Jennifer France’s Iphis and Allan Clayton’s Jephtha standouts

The Guardian - UK

Jephtha at the Royal Opera House review: highly recommended to all but zealots and puritans

This is a powerful indictment of religious fervour and the dangers that can stem from it

Evening Standard

Prom 36 A Space Odyssey: LPO/Gardner review – unsettling and awesome

Intense and finely focused performances of the Ligeti and Strauss pieces used in Kubrick’s sci-fi epic revealed every detail of their unearthly majesty and awesome extremes

The Guardian - UK

From Joy Ride to Carly Rae Jepsen: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A business deal goes wildly awry in a road trip comedy from a Crazy Rich Asians writer, while the Canadian pop star shows off a more playful side on her new album

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Ariadne auf Naxos review – Strauss’s harlequinade gets a dusting of silver-screen magic

Rodula Gaitanou’s relocation of Strauss’s opera to Rome’s Cinecittà studios brings many gains, plus there’s impeccable playing, lovely singing – Elizabeth Llewellyn’s Ariadne particularly – and even fireworks

The Guardian - UK

It’s a Wonderful Life review – operatic adaptation is on the side of the angels

Jake Heggie’s take on the heartwarming Christmas classic has a glittering, melodic score with a gift of a role for soprano Danielle de Niese as goofy guardian angel Clara

The Guardian - UK

The Midsummer Marriage review – Tippett’s heady mix has the recording it deserves

Gardner captures perfectly the overflowing exuberance of Tippett’s score, with Toby Spence and Jennifer France an ideal Jack and Bella

The Guardian - UK

In This Brief Moment review – Darwin, Genesis and whirlygigs in Brett Dean’s mindblowing cantata

Dean’s five-part evolution cantata was brought to vivid life by Nicholas Collon and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

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