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Jessica Pratt (Bianca) and Aya Wakizono (Falliero) © Amati Bacciardi

The Rossini Opera Festival comes home! Bianca e Falliero at the Palafestival

By Laura Servidei, 07 August 2024

Jessica Pratt leads a strong cast in a beautiful performance of one of Rossini’s unjustly forgotten masterpieces, under the spectacular baton of Roberto Abbado, despite an unremarkable new production by Jean-Louis Grinda.

***11

***11

Pesaro

07 Aug 2024

The Rossini Opera Festival comes home! Bianca e Falliero in Pesaro

By Laura Servidei

Bergamo

Donizetti Festival’s Il diluvio universale drowned in a torrent of distracting video

By Stephen Pritchard, 17 November 2023

Artistic duo MASBEDO turn Donizetti’s tale of the Great Flood into a climate change polemic. Their unrelenting video overwhelms impressive singing from a cast led by bass Nahuel Di Pierro.

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**111

Bergamo

17 Nov 2023

Donizetti Festival’s Il diluvio universale drowned in video

By Stephen Pritchard

Maria Agresta (Anna Bolena) and Annalisa Stroppa (Giovanna Seymour) © Luciano Romano

Naples

Annalisa Stroppa's Giovanna Seymour triumphs in San Carlo's Anna Bolena

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 08 June 2023

The Italian mezzo-soprano makes her mark as Anne Boleyn's rival in Jetske Mijnssen's production in Naples.

****1

****1

Naples

08 Jun 2023

Annalisa Stroppa's Giovanna triumphs in San Carlo's Anna Bolena

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Xabier Anduaga and Lisette Oropesa © Luciano Romano

Naples

Bellini's last monument to bel canto: I puritani in concert in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 07 September 2022

Appearing in Naples after an absence of 34 years, Bellini's opera was given in a concert performance headed by Lisette Oropesa and Xabier Anduaga.

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****1

Naples

07 Sep 2022

Bellini's last monument to bel canto: I puritani in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Pesaro

Moïse et Pharaon in Pesaro: the Rossini Opera Festival is back!

By Laura Servidei, 06 August 2021

A new production by Pier Luigi Pizzi opens the festival in Pesaro with Giacomo Sagripanti in the pit leading a strong cast and powerful chorus.

****1

****1

Pesaro

06 Aug 2021

Moïse et Pharaon in Pesaro: the Rossini Opera Festival is back!

By Laura Servidei

Bucharest

A remarkable rendition of Handel’s Silla at the Enescu Festival

By Edward Sava-Segal, 05 September 2019

Europa Galante's musicians’ collective expertise in playing music of the 17th and 18th centuries is indisputable and was in full display once again in Bucharest.

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****1

Bucharest

05 Sep 2019

A remarkable rendition of Handel’s Silla at the Enescu Festival

By Edward Sava-Segal

Parma

Robert Wilson's lunar Trouvère in Parma is the antithesis of grand opéra

By Renato Verga, 29 September 2018

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.

***11

***11

Parma

29 Sep 2018

Wilson's lunar Trouvère the antithesis of grand opéra

By Renato Verga

Modena

La Gioconda in Modena: a popularly acclaimed, small-town grand opera

By Renato Verga, 25 March 2018

Every time Ponchielli’s La Gioconda is staged its popular fortune is renewed, but the diffidence of the musicography also remains unchanged.

***11

***11

Modena

25 Mar 2018

La Gioconda in Modena

By Renato Verga

Martina Franca

Monteverdi's Poppea crowned in a Baroque cloister in Martina Franca

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 29 July 2015

The workshop of Accademia di Bel Canto "Rodolfo Celletti" exhibits young rising singers in an all-time masterpiece.

***11

***11

Martina Franca

29 Jul 2015

Monteverdi's Poppea crowned in a Baroque cloister

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Roberta Mantegna (Pauline) © Werner Kmetitsch

Vienna

Schillerndes Kontrastprogramm: Donezettis Les Martyrs am MusikTheater an der Wien

By Norman Schwarze, 20 September 2023

Das MusikTheater an der Wien hat die Saison 23/24 mit einer politisierenden Interpretation von Donizettis Les Martyrs eröffnet. Nicht ohne Zwiespalt, mit viel Spektakel und Schalk, aber durchaus fantastisch!

****1

****1

Vienna

20 Sep 2023

Schillerndes Kontrastprogramm: Les Martyrs am MusikTheater an der Wien

By Norman Schwarze

La contralto Enkelejda Shkoza en el papel de Ulrica © Auditorio de Tenerife | Miguel Barreto

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Un Ballo in maschera clásico y admirable en la Ópera de Tenerife

By Francisco Martínez Ramos, 22 November 2022

Ópera de Tenerife presentó, con mucho éxito, Un ballo in maschera de Verdi, que contó con un reparto de alto nivel. Alessandro D'Agostini fue el director musical y Marina Bianchi la directora de escena.

****1

****1

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

22 Nov 2022

Un Ballo in maschera clásico y admirable en la Ópera de Tenerife

By Francisco Martínez Ramos

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Halffter dirige las dictatoriales óperas Der Diktator y Der Kaiser junto a la Sinfónica de Tenerife

By Francisco Martínez Ramos, 14 December 2019

Pedro Halffter se puso al frente de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife y de un elenco vocal de primer nivel en la version de concierto de Der Diktator y Der Kaiser, dos óperas de temática dictatorial compuestas por músicos judíos.

****1

****1

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

14 Dec 2019

Halffter dirige las dictatoriales Der Diktator y Der Kaiser

By Francisco Martínez Ramos