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TriesteBenedetto Lupo plays Ravel

Bosso, Ravel, Schostakowitsch
Orchestra of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste; Francesco Lanzillotta; Benedetto Lupo
MadridBellini - Norma

Bellini: Norma
Francesco Lanzillotta; Justin Way; Teatro Real; John Fiore; Charles Edwards; Sue Willmington; Nicolás Fischtel
ParmaNabuccoNeuinszenierung

Verdi: Nabucco
Francesco Lanzillotta; Pier Luigi Pizzi; Teatro Regio di Parma; Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
VenedigThe telephone & Trouble in TahitiNeuinszenierung

Menotti, Bernstein
Francesco Lanzillotta; Gianmaria Aliverta; Teatro La Fenice; Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice; Coro del Teatro La Fenice; Allen Boxer; Elisa Balbo
HamburgIl turco in Italia

Rossini: Il turco in Italia
Francesco Lanzillotta; Christof Loy; Staatsoper Hamburg; Herbert Murauer; Reinhard Traub; Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Frankfurt am MainLa fiammaNeuinszenierung

Respighi: La fiamma
Francesco Lanzillotta; Hans Walter Richter; Oper Frankfurt; Simone Di Felice; Hartmut Schörghofer; Katrin Lea Tag; Joachim Klein
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Grigorian und Akhmetshina glänzen in säkularer Norma

In einer Woche, in der Wien zwei Neuinszenierungen von Bellinis Norma begrüßt, legt das MusikTheater an der Wien mit Vasily Barkhatovs Inszenierung die Latte hoch.
Rosa Feola’s Lucia rescues a San Carlo production showing its age

Gianni Amelio's 2021 production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro di San Carlo serves the music, but it no longer commands the same sense of discovery.
A Norma cooking on medium at Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Despite excellent performances from Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Elmina Hasan, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's new production of Norma lacks a pinch of salt.
Nino Rota's Aladdin: a fairy tale in Martina Franca

Rota's Aladdin finds new life at the Festival della Valle d'Itria thanks to the outstanding conducting of Francesco Lanzillotta.
Adelaide di Borgogna returns to the Rossini Opera Festival

The ROF presents a new, cheeky production of Adelaide, by Arnaud Bernard, based on a unoriginal but very well executed “meta-theatrical” take, with an exemplary cast.
A surprise ending in Staatsoper's I puritani revival
Pretty Yende and John Osborn bring star quality to this revival of John Dew’s Vienna staging of Bellini's Civil War opera.
