The Royal Opera House’s current season has been marketed as a celebratory Olympic event, with a series of operatic cycles cunningly planned to time with the festivities this summer. In practise, however, the season has been marked by a series of cost-saving revivals of popular titles and some disappointingly high-profile cancellations - most painfully, by Anja Harteros, who has already withdrawn from two roles this year. Whilst the house continues its tradition of saving its most glamorous performances for the summer booking period, it whetted our appetite with solid revivals of two of its most recent hits. Laurent Pelly’s production of La Fille du Régiment was the toast of the town when it premiered in 2007 and has already returned with nearly the same spectacular cast. Its ironic treatment of opéra-comique conventions and its emotional…
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