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The Pearl Fishers: Turin opens its operatic season
The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.
The first modern staged performance of Paër’s Agnese in Turin
The Teatro Regio presents a Classical rarity with echoes of Mozart and anticipations of Rossini. Diego Fasolis conducts with imagination and spunk.
In Turin's Trovatore, the women carry the day
Female voices dominate in the vocal cast: Rachel Willis-Sørensen debuts as Leonora and charms the audience; Anna Maria Chiuri has the temperament and rich vocality requested by the role of the gypsy.
A strong Italian cast for Così fan tutte in Turin
Diego Fasolis gives an enlightened, 18th-century account of the Mozart/da Ponte masterpiece, with great precision and elegance.
On the female condition: two 20th-century operas in Turin
Two different variations of the female conditions: one of 1909 and now utterly out-of-date, the second of 1959 much more ut-to-date.
I Lombardi alla prima crociata returns to Turin after 93 years
The director presents the story clearly enough, but apart from that, there is not much going for this production.
