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Pier Luigi Pizzi’s staging looks impressive but feels empty. Lidia Fridman’s Abigaille ignites the evening.

Federico Maria Sardelli conducts an historic production of Handel’s first Italian opera for London with energy and Baroque spirit. Teresa Iervolino takes the leading role in a convincing cast.

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.

Carmela Remigio excels as the Trojan Queen; Sesto Quatrini conducts a superb account of the music of a Calabrian composer who died far too young.

The best-laid plans go astray when the noble Count Robinson falls for the wrong sister, setting up a lovely night of opera.

With all the right ingredients – acte blanc, love intrigue, dramatic death – La Bayadère is a classic Russian ballet.

The Rossini Opera Festival stages a new production of the most famous of Rossini’s masterpieces to celebrate the composer in the 150th anniversary of his death.

The young tenor Maxim Mironov, who played the poet Giocondo, was the name on everyone's lips by the end of the show. His voice is a modestly-sized and soft-grained, but it is beautifully produced, and focuses to a laser-like point up top.

A long awaited debut for an opera which revealed itself as a Romantic masterpiece.

Las sopranos Anna Pirozzi, Ketevan Kemoklidze y la mezzo María José Montiel fueron las que se llevaron el estrépito de aplausos y la emoción del público. Exhibición de potencia y dramatismo en una obra poco dada en el teatro condal, sobre un fondo estético y sin tratamiento dramatúrgico.

Valiosa recuperación de un puñado de buena música escondida en el desván pero a la que olvidaron sacudirle el polvo