Performer: Tonia Langella

One of Puccini's less renowned works returns to the Teatro San Carlo after over thirty years away.

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.

In a staging new to Florence, the action is often merely a set of friezes, singers immobilised on a pair of moving plinths.