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Rossini: Le siège de Corinthe
Carlo Rizzi; Davide Livermore; Rossini Opera Festival; Eleonora Peronetti; Gianluca Falaschi; Nicolas Bovey; Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
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Rossini: Stabat Mater
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Domingo Hindoyan; Vasilisa Berzhanskaya; Anna-Doris Capitelli; Dmitry Korchak; Adrian Sâmpetrean
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A good, mostly Italian cast brings alive one of the most famous productions by the great director Giorgio Strehler, under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
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Opening the 2022 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Hugo de Ana's new production plunges Le Comte Ory into Hieronymus Bosch’s lusty triptych.
Olivier Py's Thaïs doesn't set pulses racing in Milan
Olivier Py's new production at La Scala is inspired by art depicting the Temptation of St Anthony, but turns out to be disappointingly tame.
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Frederic Wake-Walker sticks to a vapid pop-parody that demeans the intellectual message of Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos.
A touch of magic realism to Hänsel und Gretel
Bechtolf's seductively imaginative staging consists in a flat pack fairytale world full of surprises that delight like the contents of a pop up book.