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Lucrezia Borgia: a dark feast in Rome

By Pia Maltri, 16 February 2025

Valentina Carrasco's contemporary staging, with impressive sets and singing, makes for a remarkable show at the Teatro dell'Opera.

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Rome

19 Feb 2025

Lucrezia Borgia: a dark feast in Rome

By Pia Maltri

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Bergamo

La Favorite opens the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo

By Laura Servidei, 18 November 2022

The wonderful Javier Camarena joins Annalisa Stroppa, making her role debut, in a strong cast for a complete original version of La Favorite, in a successful production by Valentina Carrasco.

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Bergamo

20 Nov 2022

La Favorite opens the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo

By Laura Servidei

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Parma

Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for the original Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Regio

By Mark Pullinger, 25 September 2022

Boccanegra butchered in Parma? Only in the sense that director Valentina Carrasca sets the opera in an abattoir...

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Parma

26 Sep 2022

Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for 1857 Simon Boccanegra

By Mark Pullinger

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Rome

Verdi's Vêpres siciliennes opens the operatic season in Rome

By Renato Verga, 10 December 2019

Living in an environment influenced by French culture, Verdi saw the chance of breathing new life into the Italian opera through the grand-opéra. Les Vêpres siciliennes is his successful attempt.

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Rome

11 Dec 2019

Verdi's Vêpres siciliennes opens the operatic season in Rome

By Renato Verga

London

Visually spectacular, musically even more so: Enescu's Oedipe at the Royal Opera

By David Karlin, 23 May 2016

Johan Reuter leads an all star cast in a revelatory performance of George Enescu's masterpiece, aided by spectacular La Fura dels Baus staging.

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London

24 May 2016

Enescu's Oedipe at the Royal Opera

By David Karlin