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Verdi: La traviata
Michele Gamba; Liliana Cavani; Teatro alla Scala; Dante Ferretti; Gabriella Pescucci; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; Coro del Teatro alla Scala
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Tradition reclaimed in Liliana Cavani’s lavish Traviata at La Scala
Reaching a milestone 100th performance, Liliana Cavani’s grand staging of La traviata returns in fine form, featuring a luminous Nadine Sierra as Violetta.
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino's Don Giovanni falls at the final hurdle
The Maggio postpones Pountney’s expected new production of Don Giovanni, presenting Ferrara’s production from Spoleto instead, with a good cast in the hands of Zubin Mehta.
Unas bodas sin postín: Le nozze di Figaro en El Escorial
La directora Yi-Chen Lin fue, junto con Simón Orfila, la mayor baza para levantar esta producción que ha ofrecido el Festival de Verano de El Escorial.
Netrebko returns to La traviata at La Scala
Netrebko's Violetta is now fuller in body and voice than in her former incarnation. Goodbye to the fresh-faced damsel we saw in Salzburg; hello to a larger-than-life courtesan in her twilight years.
Rossini's Otello returns to its birthplace in Naples
Suggesting that Otello was a migrant, like modern refugees, was not a great staging idea for a production which could count on an high-rate vocal cast.
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.