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A forgotten meta-opera at La Scala: Gassmann’s L’opera seria

By Laura Servidei, 29 March 2025

Christophe Rousset leads a great cast and an even greater orchestra in Gassmann’s 1769 rarity in Laurent Pelly’s visually striking, but oddly subdued, take on a comedy that thrives on chaos.

***11

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***11

Milan

31 Mar 2025

A forgotten meta-opera at La Scala: Gassmann’s L’opera seria

By Laura Servidei

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Karlsruhe

Siroe, Re di Persia: a majestic and true-to-form revival at Staatstheater Karlsruhe

By Mengguang Huang, 28 February 2025

Ulrich Peters' 2024 production justifies the artistic value of Handel’s unjustly neglected opera and the literary value of Metastasio's libretto.

****1

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****1

Karlsruhe

01 Mar 2025

Siroe, Re di Persia: a majestic and true-to-form Karlsruhe revival

By Mengguang Huang

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Milan

Li zite 'ngalera at La Scala: exciting galley trip of the newlyweds

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 04 April 2023

The singer-actors of this lively Neapolitan opera are entangled in a farcical plot in the Teatro alla Scala's revival of the genre.

****1

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Milan

07 Apr 2023

Li zite 'ngalera at La Scala: galley trip of the newlyweds

By Lorenzo Fiorito

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Amsterdam

Pure entertainment from early opera: La finta pazza from Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea

By David Karlin, 07 May 2022

Extraordinary singing and acting from Mariana Flores stands out in a joyous concert performance of one of the first operas ever written.

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Amsterdam

08 May 2022

Pure entertainment from early opera: La finta pazza

By David Karlin

Halle

A bizarre Berenice at the Halle Handel Festival

By Sandra Bowdler, 25 May 2018

A post post-modern production of Berenice threw distraction upon distraction at the audience, but was saved by good singing and orchestral playing.

***11

***11

Halle

27 May 2018

A bizarre Berenice at the Halle Handel Festival

By Sandra Bowdler

Vienna

Giulio Cesare in concert: Lawrence Zazzo and Emőke Baráth came, saw and conquered Vienna

By Orsolya Gyárfás, 18 October 2017

An outstanding cast under Ottavio Dantone at the Theater an der Wien was headed by Lawrence Zazzo and Emőke Baráth.

****1

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Vienna

20 Oct 2017

Giulio Cesare in concert: Lawrence Zazzo and Emőke Baráth came, saw and conquered Vienna

By Orsolya Gyárfás