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Lorenzo Viotti makes the score as dramatic as possible but leaves little room for the singers
Berlioz’s work becomes a study of Nazism in Terry Gilliam’s hands
Diana Damrau is brilliantly convincing as a woman of modern attitudes in a still feudal man’s world
Roland Villazón’s production of Puccini, his Berlin debut as stage director, is a patchy affair
The composer’s compact ‘drame musical’ tells of a delicate love triangle at the time of the French Revolution
A wealth of orchestral detail lit up this production – but the central couple were underpowered
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