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Rossini: La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
Iván López Reynoso; Damiano Michieletto; Rossini Opera Festival; Paolo Fantin; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
RomeMariotti: Le due Petite Messe
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Michele Mariotti; Hasmik Torosyan; Carlo Vistoli; Dmitry Korchak; Michele Pertusi
RomeMariotti: Le due Petite Messe
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Michele Mariotti; Hasmik Torosyan; Carlo Vistoli; Dmitry Korchak; Michele Pertusi
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Petite Messe solennelle et recueillie au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Ambiance recueillie pour cette Petite Messe de Rossini où brillent un quatuor vocal de grande qualité et un excellent pianiste. Chœurs et chef superlatifs !
An elegant and vocally fine Don Pasquale in Tokyo
New National Theatre Tokyo's new staging of Donizetti's jolly Don Pasquale, in Stefano Vizioli's classic production, featured some sparkling vocal performances from a fine cast.
The Pearl Fishers: Turin opens its operatic season
The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.
La rondine: a flimsy work in pastel colours in Florence
Commissioned as an operetta, La rondine became a true opera instead, and was presented in 1917 in Montecarlo at the high point of WW1.
Rossini's Turk given in memory of Alberto Zedda
In Livermore's staging the scheme becomes meta-cinematographic: the poet Prosdocimus here has Marcello Mastroianni's features in Fellini's film 8 ½.
Understated elegance: Robert Carsen's sublime Bohème
Robert Carsen's understated elegance on stage counterbalances Puccini’s highly charged melodrama.