ÓPERA NA INGLATERRA - THE TIMES

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Madama Butterfly
The production of Puccini’s clash-of-civilisations weepie looks an excellent investment for Opera North

Iphigenie en Tauride
The black gloom of Robert Carsen’s gruelling take on Gluck’s masterwork created a bad night at the opera
Albert Herring and The Magic Flute
Britten’s comic gem seemed to bed more easily with the college students of BYO
The Turn of the Screw
It's not a jolly show. More than most, this staging of The Turn of the Screw brings out the work’s very darkest corners
L’amore dei tre re
This strange, dark tale moved like a knife, through erotic love duets to the finale’s necrophilia
A Flowering Tree
For its full potency this story needs telling in a single breath. Adams and Sellars’s libretto gives us two acts