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VenedigLa traviata
Verdi: La traviata
Stefano Ranzani; Robert Carsen; Teatro La Fenice; Patrick Kinmonth; Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice; Coro del Teatro La Fenice
MailandTurandot
Puccini: Turandot
Nicola Luisotti; Davide Livermore; Teatro alla Scala; Antonio Castro; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
VenedigCarmen
Bizet: Carmen
Francesco Ivan Ciampa; Calixto Bieito; Teatro La Fenice; Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice; Coro del Teatro La Fenice; Annalisa Stroppa; Marina Comparato
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Soaring voices, stumbling direction: the turmoil of Norma at La Scala
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After almost 50 years, the Teatro alla Scala presents a new production of Norma, with a great cast, some shadows in the orchestra direction and several failures in the production.
La fanciulla del West revival fails to reignite the spark in Naples
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Huge de Ana's staging is carefully crafted but feels dramaturgically outdated as the Teatro di San Carlo heads into the twilight of sovrintendente Stéphane Lissner’s final season.
Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for 1857 Simon Boccanegra
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Boccanegra butchered in Parma? Only in the sense that director Valentina Carrasca sets the opera in an abattoir...