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Neorealist nostalgia: Monteverdi’s Ulisse in post-war Sicily
Davide Livermore creates a successful production of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, with a great cast led by Mauro Borgioni.
Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero played in Lausanne
A semi-staged production of Francesca Caccini's sole surviving opera is brought to life in Lausanne, featuring an outstanding cast of specialists in early music.
La belle redécouverte de l'Alcina de Francesca Caccini
L'ensemble codirigé par Mathilde Etienne et Emiliano Gonzalez Toro a exhumé le premier opéra composé par une femme, Francesca Caccini, représentatif de la splendeur de la cour des Médicis de Florence au Seicento.
Dafne returns to Florence four centuries later
The imaginative baroque architecture of the Buontalenti Grotto in Palazzo Pitti Boboli Gardens is an inert background to the action in this reprise of one of the first operas.
A footloose staging of Paisiello's Don Chisciotte
The staging of Don Chisciotte by Giovanni Paisiello in the patio of a masseria was intended as fun and playful. But an overly modest staging disappoints.