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Opera Grand Rapids welcomes guests to experience Dr. Miracle—and mimosas! Enjoy this take on Georges Bizet’s Le Docteur Miracle.

It’s not stage-filling spectacle, but Barrie Kosky’s version of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” the start of a four-opera epic, is eerie, vivid and intense.

TUESDAY

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Egoyan completes a most unusual double-headed project by simultaneously remounting the stage production of an opera he directed in 1996 and shooting a fictional film about a stage director doing the same

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Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono, 25, is the first Kiwi to win the competition since 2019.

The work, by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and the American playwright George Brant, is inspired by the accounts of mothers whose children were taken during the war.

SUNDAY

ASTANA. KAZINFORM The Astana Opera opened a new season with a full house, under unceasing applause and shouts of «Bravo!». One of the best performances, Akhmet Zhubanov and Latif Khamidi’s opera Abai to Mukhtar Auezov’s libretto, was presented to the audience.