After nearly six months without a new production, two arrived at once at the Royal Opera House. Strictly speaking, neither of these shows were exactly premieres (both having been staged previously at continental festivals), but they felt like a gust of spring air after the bleak mid-winter of solid revivals and high-profile cancellations that have characterised the current season. In his speech marking the presentation of the 2012-2013 schedule, Kaspar Holten expressed his desire to continue increasing the number of new productions at the house, and that can only be warmly welcomed by those who have been plagued by a recurrent sense of déjà vu in the preceding months. Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito’s staging of Rusalka is hardly new -it was premiered in 2008 at the Salzburg Festival- yet anyone who followed the press coverage from the…
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