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Ring-Vorgeschmack in den Kölner Wagner-Lesarten III
Über feierliche Orgien und historische Extreme nähern sich Concerto Köln und Kent Nagano nun mit viel Fantasie der romantischen Opernwelt.
Terne Rigoletto aux Arènes de Vérone
Rigoletto assez terne au Festival des Arènes de Vérone : le sublime bouffon de Verdi ainsi que la réputation du Festival italien méritaient bien un niveau d’interprétation supérieur.
Clémentine Margaine's Carmen seduces in Naples
The staging highlighted Carmen’s rebellious traits more than her sensual exoticism.
Macerata's gloomy Otello
Roberto Frontali is a stern, chillingly immobile Iago, armed with a brassy voice and a cleanness of diction that sees him carve Boito's text with surgical precision.
Jesting aside: La Scala revives Giordano's La cena delle beffe
A revival of a verismo rarity: Umberto Giordano's La cene delle beffe at La Scala.
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.