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RomeFalstaff
Verdi: Falstaff
Michele Mariotti; Tatjana Gürbaca; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Henrik Ahr; Silke Willrett; Stefan Bolliger; Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Giacomo Sagripanti; Karole Armitage; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Daniela Ciancio; Valerio Tiberi; Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
RomeI due Foscari
Verdi: I due Foscari
Riccardo Frizza; Pier Luigi Pizzi; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
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Verdi: Macbeth
Myung-whun Chung; Barrie Kosky; Teatro alla Scala; Klaus Grünberg; Klaus Bruns; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
MailandI puritani
Bellini: Die Puritaner
Fabio Luisi; Davide Livermore; Teatro alla Scala; Eleonora Peronetti; Gianluca Falaschi; Antonio Castro; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
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La Scala offers Lucia di Lammermoor as Donizetti intended it: complete, dramatically coherent and free of traditional cuts – a musicological achievement and a gripping theatrical experience.
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Huge de Ana's staging is carefully crafted but feels dramaturgically outdated as the Teatro di San Carlo heads into the twilight of sovrintendente Stéphane Lissner’s final season.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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