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La Scala salutes the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini’s death with a spectacular new Turandot

By Laura Servidei, 28 June 2024

Anna Netrebko and Rosa Feola shine in an extravagant new production by director Davide Livermore.

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Milan

28 Jun 2024

La Scala salutes Giacomo Puccini with a spectacular new Turandot

By Laura Servidei

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スカラ座、プッチーニ没後100周年を祝う華麗な《トゥーランドット》を上演

By Laura Servidei, 28 June 2024

アンナ·ネトレプコとローザ·フェオラ、ダヴィデ·リヴァーモアの豪華な舞台で輝く。

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Milan

28 Jun 2024

スカラ座、プッチーニ没後100周年を祝う華麗な《トゥーランドット》を上演

By Laura Servidei

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Vasily Barkhatov's car crash Turandot opens the season in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 12 December 2023

The Teatro di San Carlo opens its season with Vasily Barkhatov directing a Gen X mish-mash take on Puccini's final opera.

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Naples

12 Dec 2023

Vasily Barkhatov's car crash Turandot opens the season in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito

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New York City

Guilty pleasures: Yoncheva and Beczała star in a new Fedora at the Met

By Kevin W Ng, 04 January 2023

There are plenty of vocal thrills in Sir David McVicar's new production of Giordano's revenge thriller at the Metropolitan Opera.

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New York City

04 Jan 2023

Guilty pleasures: Yoncheva stars in a new Fedora at the Met

By Kevin W Ng

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New York City

A new cast brings the Met's Rigoletto to life

By Kevin W Ng, 10 November 2022

Three major Metropolitan Opera debuts bring excitement and vocal glamour to this revival of Bartlett Sher's Rigoletto production.

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New York City

10 Nov 2022

A new cast brings the Met's Rigoletto to life

By Kevin W Ng

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London

No punches pulled in an excellent Covent Garden Rigoletto

By David Karlin, 23 February 2022

The second cast of the season for Oliver Mears' new Royal Opera production augments the intelligent staging with superb singing and acting.

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London

23 Feb 2022

No punches pulled in an excellent Covent Garden Rigoletto

By David Karlin

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New York City

A trio of vocal triumphs in The Metropolitan Opera's new Rigoletto

By Robert Levine, 04 January 2022

Verdi's Rigoletto in Weimar Germany? A half-baked concept, but Bartlett Sher's new production is certainly dramatic and it is gorgeously sung.

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New York City

04 Jan 2022

A trio of vocal triumphs in The Metropolitan Opera's new Rigoletto

By Robert Levine

Spoiler alert: Juliet doesn’t die in Zurich I Capuleti e i Montecchi

By Laura Servidei, 21 September 2021

The Opernhaus Zürich revives Christof Loy’s production with a new young cast under the baton of Fabio Biondi.

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Zurich

21 Sep 2021

Spoiler alert: Juliet doesn’t die in Zurich I Capuleti e i Montecchi

By Laura Servidei

Even more cynical than Così! A new Turco in Italia at La Scala

By Laura Servidei, 22 February 2020

Diego Fasolis conducts a great cast, led by Alex Esposito and Rosa Feola in a new production of Rossini’s masterpiece by Roberto Andò.

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Milan

22 Feb 2020

Even more cynical than Così! A new Turco in Italia at La Scala

By Laura Servidei

“What a commotion!” A slapstick Finta giardiniera in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 24 February 2019

Zurich Opera stages Tatjana Gürbaca’s production of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera. True to the opera buffa genre, it teems with silliness.

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Zurich

24 Feb 2019

“What a commotion!” A slapstick Finta giardiniera in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

Munich

Kirill Petrenko and a luxury cast grace Il trittico in Munich

By James Imam, 14 July 2018

Petrenko's Puccini is bracingly alert, filled with colour and has a romantic sweep that is utterly transporting.

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Munich

14 Jul 2018

Petrenko and a luxury cast grace Il trittico in Munich

By James Imam

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Don Pasquale, or, The Revenge of the Dead Mother

By Renato Verga, 03 April 2018

Director Davide Livermore sets the story at the time of the Dolce Vita, including the motorbike from the film Roman Holiday and the roadster from The Easy Life.

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Milan

03 Apr 2018

Don Pasquale, or, The Revenge of the Dead Mother

By Renato Verga

Chicago

Surrealist Rigoletto at the Lyric impresses with vocal talent

By Dan Wang, 07 October 2017

The Lyric Opera’s new production of Rigoletto evokes visually the contours and high-contrast relief of a surrealist painting.

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Chicago

07 Oct 2017

Surrealist Rigoletto impresses at the Lyric

By Dan Wang

Rossini’s Thieving Magpie doesn’t quite take flight at La Scala

By Mark Pullinger, 12 April 2017

La gazza ladra celebrates its 200th anniversary with a new production at La Scala, an earthbound effort from director Gabriele Salvatores, but it was Riccardo Chailly who drew the wrath of sections of the Milanese audience.

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Milan

12 Apr 2017

Thieving Magpie doesn’t quite take flight at La Scala

By Mark Pullinger

Tragedy comes full circle in San Carlo's Rigoletto

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 18 January 2017

In this staging of Verdi’s masterpiece, the director reminds us that the ominous epilogue springs from its short prelude.

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Naples

18 Jan 2017

Tragedy comes full circle in San Carlo's Rigoletto

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Le nozze di Figaro in Naples: theatre first, then music

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 24 September 2016

Teatro di San Carlo closed its Opera Festival summer season with Le nozze di Figaro, which director Chiara Muti staged as a timeless classic

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Naples

24 Sep 2016

Theatre first, then music

By Lorenzo Fiorito

London

Prom 9: Rosa to the rescue: Feola, Rhorer and Le Cercle d'Harmonie

By Alexander Hall, 22 July 2016

Le Cercle d'Harmonie with their founder Jérémie Rhorer fail to convince in symphonies by Mozart and Mendelssohn, whereas the Italian soprano Rosa Feola triumphs in two concert arias.

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London

22 Jul 2016

Prom 9: Rosa to the rescue

By Alexander Hall

Glyndebourne

Every detail finely tuned in Glyndebourne's Le nozze di Figaro

By David Karlin, 03 July 2016

1960s kitsch set in old Seville, excellent acting and movement direction combines with strong singing and immaculate playing from the OAE to make Glyndeboune's Le nozze di Figaro a triumph.

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Glyndebourne

03 Jul 2016

Every detail finely tuned in Glyndebourne's Figaro

By David Karlin

Chicago

Riccardo Muti conducts a rewarding Falstaff in Chicago

By Edward Sava-Segal, 26 April 2016

The Chicago Symphony and Riccardo Muti celebrate Shakespeare's Anniversary.

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Chicago

26 Apr 2016

Muti conducts a rewarding Falstaff in Chicago

By Edward Sava-Segal

Chicago

Das himmlische Leben indeed: Muti conducts Mahler in Chicago

By Sam Jacobson, 15 April 2016

A rare sighting of Muti and Mahler had stellar results in the bucolic Fourth Symphony, prefaced by two of Tchaikovsky's Shakespearean tone poems.

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Chicago

15 Apr 2016

Das himmlische Leben indeed: Muti conducts Mahler

By Sam Jacobson

A director's Falstaff in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 13 March 2016

Good overall singing, but the Steinberg's conducting was completely subordinate to the stage directions.

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Naples

13 Mar 2016

A director's Falstaff in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Tics and tricks à la Marthaler: Il viaggio a Reims in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 06 December 2015

Theatre director Christoph Marthaler is renowned – if notorious – for his “off the wall” productions and adherence to bad boy antics. This Viaggio was no exception.

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Zurich

06 Dec 2015

Tics and tricks à la Marthaler

By Sarah Batschelet

Feverish madness: Bizet's Pearl Fishers in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 25 October 2015

Zurich’s revival of Georges Bizet’s three-act opera Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) pulls out all the stops, but it was not to everyone’s liking.

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Zurich

25 Oct 2015

Feverish madness: Bizet's Pearl Fishers in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

Cardiff

Rosa Feola shines in Welsh National Opera's I puritani

By Simon Rees, 11 September 2015

Annilese Miskimmon's production of I puritani mixes Royalists with Loyalists - but is musically successful under Carlo Rizzi's baton.

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Cardiff

11 Sep 2015

Rosa Feola shines in WNO's I puritani

By Simon Rees

Glyndebourne

Smashing fun for all: Glyndeboune on Tour's La finta giardiniera

By David Karlin, 05 October 2014

La finta giardiniera isn't one of Mozart's greatest operas. But this is about as good a production of it as I can imagine and makes for a deliciously light-hearted evening.

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Glyndebourne

05 Oct 2014

La finta giardiniera: Smashing fun for all

By David Karlin

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Paris

À l'Opéra Bastille, le Rigoletto de Claus Guth est toujours maudit

By Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 01 December 2024

Si la mise en scène ne convainc toujours pas dans cette production créée en 2016, la direction musicale et le rôle-titre sont autant d'atouts qui magnifient le chef-d'œuvre de Verdi.

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Paris

01 Dec 2024

À l'Opéra Bastille, le Rigoletto de Claus Guth est toujours maudit

By Jean-Pierre Rousseau

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Liège

I Capuleti e i Montecchi à l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, ou quand le bel canto sait émouvoir

By Patrice Lieberman, 19 May 2024

La mise en scène sobre d’Allex Aguilera et la direction subtile de Maurizio Benini servent une belle production de l'opéra de Bellini, avec un duo d'amoureux parfaitement incarné par Rosa Feola et Raffaella Lupinacci.

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Liège

19 May 2024

I Capuleti e i Montecchi à Liège, ou les émotions du bel canto

By Patrice Lieberman

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