Performer: Pietro Di Bianco

Huge de Ana's staging is carefully crafted but feels dramaturgically outdated as the Teatro di San Carlo heads into the twilight of sovrintendente Stéphane Lissner’s final season. 

Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka sings Violetta in Lorenzo Amato's traditional – but damp – staging. 

Despite the setting in a condo, Dante’s staging is basically traditional, to the point of even respecting the original story's 1830s fashions.