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The staging highlighted Carmen’s rebellious traits more than her sensual exoticism.

Roberto Frontali is a stern, chillingly immobile Iago, armed with a brassy voice and a cleanness of diction that sees him carve Boito's text with surgical precision.

A revival of a verismo rarity: Umberto Giordano's La cene delle beffe at La Scala. 

This revival of a 2012 staging by Ferzan Ozpetek tells the story efficiently, while conductor Nello Santi only at times made us experience all the emotional depths this opera contains.