Macbeth
Opera North
Punch and Judy
Young Vic
The Minotaur
Covent Garden
Don Giovanni
English Touring Opera, Cambridge
In a hectic and heterogeneous operatic week, three out of four of the things I saw were successful or even triumphant, so you couldn’t call it typical.

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