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Lisette Oropesa shines in Met's 'I Puritani' and earns praise from Peter Gelb

Lisette Oropesa impresses Metropolitan Opera's Peter Gelb with her talent and intellect

The Independent UK

Rolando Villazón directs opera at the world's top houses while still singing

Tenor Rolando Villazón has made his Metropolitan Opera directing debut with Bellini's “La Sonnambula.”

The Independent UK

Will Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo revives Verdi's 'Macbeth' with period instruments

Verdi can be played on original instruments, too

The Independent UK

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Plasticine men and giant goddess women: why Ken Kiff’s brilliant, bizarre art is getting a second look

A new exhibition celebrates the British painter, who was overlooked in the brash 90s, but now whose idiosyncratic work as artist in residence at the National Gallery is being newly celebrated

The Guardian - UK

The Capulets and the Montagues review – stylish staging sees ETO’s Bellini go gangster

Eloise Lally’s Little Italy take on Bellini’s Romeo and Juliet opera has, in Samantha Price and Jessica Cale, strong and powerful leads. In the pit however, things are less assured

The Guardian - UK

Met Opera to double cast Verdi and Puccini, as well as shift contemporary works from Saturdays

The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away from Saturdays at the recommendation of a consultant trying to boost the company’s finances

The Independent UK

Bafta viewers praise David Tennant’s second stint as host: ‘This is how you open an awards show’

The ‘Doctor Who’ star stunned crowds in a kilt

The Independent UK

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David Tennant mocks ‘villain’ Donald Trump at Bafta awards

‘I’m worried. I’ve said his name three times’ joked Tennant

The Independent UK

Tomato and basilica: in Conclave, Stanley Tucci plays Stanley Tucci – and I couldn’t be happier

Thanks to his books, travel shows and TikToks, it’s impossible to see the actor as anything other than a classy sophisticate. So go on, Cardinal Bellini, fix us a cocktail

The Guardian - UK

Conclave: tight thriller about Vatican power politics chimes with a year of elections

A largely faithful adaptation of Robert Harris’s 2016 novel, Edward Berger’s Conclave narrates the election of a new pope after the sudden death of the pontiff.

The Conversation

Conclave review – Ralph Fiennes shines as papal election results in high-camp gripper

Fiennes is broodingly compelling as a potential English pope caught up in murky Vatican intrigue around choosing the next pontiff

The Guardian - UK

Conclave review: Ralph Fiennes is Oscar-worthy astonishing

5/5 Edward Berger’s account of cardinals battling to be the new Pope is a thrilling succession story, and Ralph Fiennes is simply hypnotic

Evening Standard

A foodie road trip from southern Portugal to France’s Jura mountains

Mary Lussiana travels to historic hotels, picturesque vinyeards and has a Brideshead Revisited moment while on a long-overdue journey to discover the freedom of life on the road — dog in tow

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