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Anna Netrebko und Piotr Beczała brillieren unter dem eleganten Dirigat von Evelino Pidò. Ein Pflichttermin für Diven-Verehrer und Freunde opulenter Ausstattung.

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Wien

9. Nov. 2017

Adriana Lecouvreur in Wien: Eine Diva vom Feinsten

Von Snapdragon

Wien

Macbeth im Theater an der Wien: Verirrt im Garten der Lüste

Von Snapdragon, 15. November 2016

Verdis Macbeth als Beitrag zum Hieronymus Bosch-Gedenkjahr: Schauriges zu schöner Musik, Inszenierung mit vielen Fragezeichen.

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Wien

15. Nov. 2016

Verirrt im Garten der Lüste

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Wien

La traviata im Theater an der Wien - ein Triumph für Marlis Petersen und Peter Konwitschny

Von Snapdragon, 11. Juli 2014

Schlank ist schön: Gekürzt und auf Violettas Kampf um Leben und Liebesglück fokussiert, begeistert Peter Konwitschnys Grazer Traviata-Inszenierung die Wiener. Marlis Petersen in der Titelpartie ist ein Ereignis.

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Wien

11. Juli 2014

Triumph für Marlis Petersen als Violetta

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Kate Lindsey (Adso da Melk) and ensemble © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

Mailand

World premiere success for Francesco Filidei’s Il nome della rosa at La Scala

Von Laura Servidei, 27. April 2025

A great cast and an enjoyable score seal the success of a new opera based on Umberto Eco's classic historical murder mystery, The Name of the Rose.

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Mailand

27. Apr. 2025

World premiere success for Filidei’s Il nome della rosa at La Scala

Von Laura Servidei

Mailand

At La Scala, Davide Livermore sets La Gioconda in a dreamy Venetian landscape

Von Laura Servidei, 7. Juni 2022

La Scala presents a new production of Ponchielli’s masterpiece, the first one in more than 20 years and a sequence of beautiful images supporting a solid cast, led by Saioa Hernández.

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Mailand

7. Juni 2022

At La Scala, Livermore sets Gioconda in a dreamy Venetian landscape

Von Laura Servidei

Bergamo

L’elisir d’amore: a successful, interactive opening of the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo

Von Laura Servidei, 19. November 2021

Riccardo Frizza conducts Alberto Zedda's critical edition of L’elisir d’amore with a great cast, including tenor star Javier Camarena and a very young, very promising prima donna, Caterina Sala.

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Bergamo

19. Nov. 2021

A successful, interactive opening of the Donizetti Opera Festival

Von Laura Servidei

Rome

Angels and demons: Giovanna d'Arco marks the reopening of Rome's Teatro Costanzi

Von Elena Luporini, 17. Oktober 2021

After a fifty-year absence from Roman stages, Verdi's opera about the Maid of Orléans makes an appearance at Teatro dell'Opera under the conduction of Daniele Gatti.

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Rome

17. Okt. 2021

Angels and demons: Giovanna d'Arco marks a Rome reopening

Von Elena Luporini

Bergamo

Donizetti defies lockdown in Bergamo: Riccardo Frizza conducts a vivid account of Belisario

Von Mark Pullinger, 21. November 2020

A concert performance of a middle period rarity is part of a slimmed down festival which transfers to an online format to audiences across the globe.

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Bergamo

21. Nov. 2020

Donizetti defies lockdown in Bergamo: Belisario

Von Mark Pullinger

Roberto Frontali (Montfort) and John Osborn (Henri) © Yasuko Kageyama | Opera di Roma

Rome

Verdi's Vêpres siciliennes opens the operatic season in Rome

Von Renato Verga, 10. Dezember 2019

Living in an environment influenced by French culture, Verdi saw the chance of breathing new life into the Italian opera through the grand-opéra. Les Vêpres siciliennes is his successful attempt.

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Rome

10. Dez. 2019

Verdi's Vêpres siciliennes opens the operatic season in Rome

Von Renato Verga

New York City

Amneris is the star of the Met's Aida revival

Von Ako Imamura, 7. Januar 2019

This revival of the Met's 30-year-old production of Aida had a disappointing debut in the title role but Dolora Zajick's reign as Amneris is still a force of nature.

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New York City

7. Jan. 2019

Amneris is the star of the Met's Aida revival

Von Ako Imamura

Naples

Tosca finally set in its own time and place at the Teatro San Carlo

Von Lorenzo Fiorito, 12. Juli 2018

After a number of eccentric stagings, Mario Pontiggia's traditional production is a hit in Naples.

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Naples

12. Juli 2018

Tosca finally set in its own time and place

Von Lorenzo Fiorito

New York City

Ermonela Jaho lives the part of Butterfly at the Met

Von Robert Levine, 26. Februar 2018

A star-turn from Ermonela Jaho as Puccini's heroine.

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New York City

26. Feb. 2018

Ermonela Jaho lives the part of Butterfly

Von Robert Levine

Palermo

Damiano Michieletto's controversial Guillaume Tell resurfaces in Palermo

Von James Imam, 23. Januar 2018

At its 2015 inauguration at the Royal Opera House, a controversial rape scene in Act 3 drew outrage from the audience and critics alike. Now the Teatro Massimo is presenting the production once again.

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Palermo

23. Jan. 2018

Michieletto's controversial Guillaume Tell resurfaces in Palermo

Von James Imam

London

Elena Zilio leads the verismo thrills as Cav & Pag return to the Royal Opera

Von Mark Pullinger, 6. Januar 2018

After its Christmas break, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci return to the Royal Opera in Daminano Michieletto's arresting production.

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London

6. Jan. 2018

Elena Zilio leads the verismo thrills

Von Mark Pullinger

Turin

An orthodox Pagliacci stands alone in Turin

Von Renato Verga, 11. Januar 2017

The second part of the traditional Cav & Pag double bill on stage at Turin's Teatro Regio

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Turin

11. Jan. 2017

An orthodox Pagliacci stands alone in Turin

Von Renato Verga

Macerata

Iago chills the blood in Macerata's gloomy Otello

Von James Imam, 22. Juli 2016

Roberto Frontali is a stern, chillingly immobile Iago, armed with a brassy voice and a cleanness of diction that sees him carve Boito's text with surgical precision.

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Macerata

22. Juli 2016

Macerata's gloomy Otello

Von James Imam

Hong Kong

Bringing colour to a sombre tale: Simon Boccanegra at the Hong Kong Arts Festival

Von Alan Yu, 28. Februar 2016

Patchy vocal offering saved by superb orchestra in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra.

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Hong Kong

28. Feb. 2016

Bringing colour to a sombre tale: Simon Boccanegra

Von Alan Yu

London

Firing blanks: a disappointing Tosca at Covent Garden

Von Mark Pullinger, 11. Januar 2016

A clumsily directed, poorly sung Tosca at the ROH made for a dispiriting evening.

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London

11. Jan. 2016

Firing blanks: Tosca at Covent Garden

Von Mark Pullinger

Florence

Monica Bacelli shines in a heavenly Pelléas et Mélisande in Florence

Von David Pinedo, 25. Juni 2015

The two Danieles – Gatti and Abbado – triumphed in the final opera of the 78th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, with a heavenly new production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.

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Florence

25. Juni 2015

A heavenly Pelléas et Mélisande in Florence

Von David Pinedo

Paris

Macbeth de Verdi : le souffle du Sabbat

Von Anne-Laure Faubert, 4. Mai 2015

Une magnifique production du Macbeth de Verdi au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées avec l'Orchestre National de France et Daniele Gatti à la direction.

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Paris

4. Mai 2015

Macbeth de Verdi au TCE

Von Anne-Laure Faubert

Naples

Otello, or The dark side of the Moor unveiled in Naples

Von Lorenzo Fiorito, 19. April 2014

A great singing cast and an excellent conducting for the unveiling of Otello's ghosts in Naples.

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Naples

19. Apr. 2014

Otello, or The dark side of the Moor unveiled in Naples

Von Lorenzo Fiorito

Wien

112 years in the making: Adriana Lecouvreur’s belated première in Vienna

Von Chanda VanderHart, 12. März 2014

It’s more than a little surprising that Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur is first gracing the stage of the Staatsoper in 2014, 112 years after its première.It is, therefore, disappointing that this co-production with Covent Garden is not more successful, despite its many excellent qualities.

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Wien

12. März 2014

112 years in the making: Adriana Lecouvreur’s belated première in Vienna

Von Chanda VanderHart

Los Angeles

New LA Opera Falstaff is a merry treat

Von Matthew Richard Martinez, 9. November 2013

In the bicentenary anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi, tributes are aplenty. On Saturday evening, Los Angeles Opera presented a new production of the Italian master’s final work, Falstaff, though that wasn’t all.

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Los Angeles

9. Nov. 2013

New LA Opera Falstaff is a merry treat

Von Matthew Richard Martinez

Wien

Il trittico scores a hat-trick at the Theater an der Wien

Von Zwölftöner, 18. Oktober 2012

Following a string of misses, the Theater an der Wien emerges from its recent dry patch with a new production of Puccini’s triptych which offers a winning cast, the best playing heard at the house in months, and a smart production.

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Wien

18. Okt. 2012

Il trittico scores a hat-trick at the Theater an der Wien

Von Zwölftöner