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The only great success of composer Italo Montemezzi finds new life at La Scala, in a production by La Fura dels Baus with a solid cast, led by conductor Pinchas Steinberg.

The 2023–24 season at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, opens with straightforward stagings of an unusual double bill of Suor Angelica and L’Enfant et les sortilèges.

Bechtolf's seductively imaginative staging consists in a flat pack fairytale world full of surprises that delight like the contents of a pop up book.

Netrebko's Violetta is now fuller in body and voice than in her former incarnation. Goodbye to the fresh-faced damsel we saw in Salzburg; hello to a larger-than-life courtesan in her twilight years.

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

Leo Nucci visceral animal of the stage has over 500 performances of the role under his belt, and, at the age of 73, he now eats this operatic challenge for breakfast

Proposée dans le cadre du festival annuel de l'Opéra de Lyon, la nouvelle production de l'ouvrage de Puccini ne prend pas vraiment, et laisse l’impression d’une promesse incomplètement tenue.

L'œuvre d’Arrigo Boito fait son entrée au répertoire toulousain dans une belle mise en scène de Jean-Louis Grinda, qui foisonne d'idées tout en restant au service du texte.