Performer: Carlo Ventre

Sérieuse et sans condescendance, profitant d'un plateau vocal de premier plan, la mise en scène de Damiano Michieletto séduit le public bruxellois.

The unclear ideas and the excessive blackness in Thalheimer’s concept failed to convince, but Stoyanov and Joel’s presentation of Verdi’s score made up for those problems.

Roberto De Simone's staging evokes a fabulous out-of-time China, and perfectly accompanies the majesty of Puccini’s last and unfinished opera. De Simone chooses to stop the opera at the point of Puccini's death, without Franco Alfano's finale.