Manon Lescaut
After his flamboyant production of Massenet’s adaptation of the Prevost novella, Daniel Slater updates Puccini’s more red-blooded version. Natalia Dercho sings the passionate heroine and Hugh Smith is her lover, Des Grieux. Richard Farnes conducts his first production as Opera North’s music director.
Grand Theatre, Leeds, Thu, Sat
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Turandot
Christopher Alden’s “Evita-style” staging of Puccini’s fantasy has Francesca Patané as the ice princess, Rafael Rojas as the singer of Nessun dorma and Olga Mykytenko as Liu. Welsh National Opera? Well, Julian Smith, the long-serving WNO man and Puccini expert, is the conductor.
New Theatre, Cardiff, Mon, Fri