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Verdi: Aida
Giuseppe Mengoli; Franco Zeffirelli; Teatro Regio di Parma; Anna Anni; Fiammetta Baldiserri; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini
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Verdi: Nabucco
Francesco Lanzillotta; Pier Luigi Pizzi; Teatro Regio di Parma; Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
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Verdi: Alzira
James Conlon; Manuel Renga; Teatro Regio di Parma; Aurelio Colombo; Emanuele Agliati; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini
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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.
A traditional Attila at the Verdi Festival in Parma
Traditionally, Italy's most unforgiving loggionisti are reputed to reside at Parma's Teatro Regio. Thankfully for the cast, they appear to be a dying breed.
Wilson's lunar Trouvère the antithesis of grand opéra
When they asked Wilson to stage an opera by Verdi, the Texan director replied "I'll never do it!". Now he is at his fourth Verdi's production.