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Im milden Licht der Dämmerung: Simon Boccanegra in Baden-Baden
In einer konventionellen Inszenierung, aber einem stimmungsvollen Bühnenbild stirbt in Baden-Baden Plácido Domingo als Simon Boccanegra einen würdevollen Operntod.
Ópera de Tenerife: Grandes voces triunfan en Attila de Verdi
Ópera de Tenerife presentó Attila de Verdi con un excelente reparto y dirección musical de Christopher Franklin y Andrea de Rosa como director de escena.
A sophisticated new Butterfly directed by Ferzan Ozpetek in Naples
Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek stages this new production of Madama Butterfly at Teatro San Carlo in Naples with a fine, penetrating approach.
A traditional Attila at the Verdi Festival in Parma
Traditionally, Italy's most unforgiving loggionisti are reputed to reside at Parma's Teatro Regio. Thankfully for the cast, they appear to be a dying breed.
Theatre first, then music
Teatro di San Carlo closed its Opera Festival summer season with Le nozze di Figaro, which director Chiara Muti staged as a timeless classic
La traviata in the Belle Époque
This revival of a 2012 staging by Ferzan Ozpetek tells the story efficiently, while conductor Nello Santi only at times made us experience all the emotional depths this opera contains.