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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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Salzburg

Bartók's Bluebeard as psychothriller in Castellucci's mismatched Salzburg Festival double bill

By George Jahn, 02 August 2022

Romeo Castellucci's intense production of Bartók's opera reaps its rewards in the performance under Teodor Currentzis, but Carl Orff's opera-oratorio De temporum fine comoedia feels little more than a drab filler.

***11

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Salzburg

04 Aug 2022

Bluebeard as psychothriller in Castellucci's mismatched double bill

By George Jahn

Salzburg

A hole in the heart: Salzburg Festival’s new Don Giovanni

By Hugo Shirley, 04 August 2021

The pairing of controversial director and bad-boy conductor brings some thrills but the Salzburg Festival's new Don Giovanni proves disappointingly uninvolving.

***11

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Salzburg

06 Aug 2021

A hole in the heart: Salzburg Festival’s new Don Giovanni

By Hugo Shirley