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Opera: The critical list

Hugh Canning
The Sunday Times
Hugh Canning
The Sunday Times

Macbeth
Thomas Hampson and Violeta Urmana star in this revival of Phyllida Lloyd’s symbolic staging of Verdi’s Shakespearian melodrama. Joseph Calleja sings Macduff; Yakov Kreizberg makes his debut in the pit.
Royal Opera, ROH, WC2, Sat

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Le nozze di Figaro
Antonio Pappano conducts David McVicar’s new production of Mozart’s immortal comedy for the Royal Opera. Gerald Finley’s Almaviva is the star, but Miah Persson’s Susanna and Erwin Schrott’s Figaro are also excellent. In Cardiff, Neil Armfield’s WNO staging has Ailish Tynan and Matthew Rose as the servants, with Elizabeth Atherton and William Dazely as their aristocratic employers.
Royal Opera, ROH, WC2, Mon, Wed, Fri; WNO, Wales Millennium Centre, Sat