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Verdi: Nabucco
Francesco Lanzillotta; Pier Luigi Pizzi; Teatro Regio di Parma; Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
BussetoAida
Verdi: Aida
Giuseppe Mengoli; Franco Zeffirelli; Teatro Regio di Parma; Anna Anni; Fiammetta Baldiserri; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini
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A visually striking Nabucco lacks heart at the Festival Verdi
Pier Luigi Pizzi’s staging looks impressive but feels empty. Lidia Fridman’s Abigaille ignites the evening.
Nile spectacular: Franco Zeffirelli’s intimate Aida revived in Busseto
Franco Zeffirelli’s Aida – compact yet simultaneously monumental – is thrilling revived at the tiny Teatro Verdi in Busseto.
Alzira: mining for gold at the Festival Verdi
Manuel Renga directs a simple, but sympathetic production of Verdi's early opera set in 16th-century Peru.
Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for 1857 Simon Boccanegra
Boccanegra butchered in Parma? Only in the sense that director Valentina Carrasca sets the opera in an abattoir...
Turbo-charged Trovatore: Verdi at full throttle in Fidenza
All you need to stage Trovatore, according to Enrico Caruso, are “the four greatest singers in the world”. The Verdi Festival may have found the four loudest...
Storm clouds gather over Verdi Festival opener
Audience protests against Roberto Abbado interrupt the opening night of the festival, Yannis Kokkos' staging of La forza del destino.