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Kasper Holten’s much travelled and spectacular Don Giovanni gets a fresh and lively remount at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre from a young cast headed up by Gordon Bintner.

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Toronto

02 Feb 2024

Kasper Holten's cinematic Don Giovanni shines at the COC

By John Gilks

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Bergamo

La hija del regimiento! A Cuban Fille at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo

By Laura Servidei, 21 November 2021

An exciting cast gives life to a new production of La Fille du régiment, for a resounding success in Bergamo.

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Bergamo

21 Nov 2021

La hija del regimiento! A Cuban Fille at Donizetti Opera

By Laura Servidei

Vienna

Rothko meets Rococo in the Wiener Staatsoper's new Il barbiere di Siviglia

By George Jahn, 01 October 2021

A bit too much buffo and scenic sensory overload mar the otherwise new enjoyable Il barbiere di Siviglia in Vienna.

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Vienna

01 Oct 2021

Rothko meets Rococo in the Staatsoper's new Il barbiere di Siviglia

By George Jahn

Naples

Il turco in Italia in Naples: nostalgia for the good old days

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 19 March 2021

A concert performance makes our reviewer at the Teatro San Carlo pine for a return to staged opera.

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Naples

19 Mar 2021

Il turco in Italia in Naples: nostalgia for the good old days

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Sydney

McVicar's The Marriage of Figaro lights up the Opera Australia stage

By Chantal Nguyen, 18 October 2019

A beautiful 17th-century setting does nothing to dim the freshness and relevance of Sir David McVicar's production for Opera Australia.

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Sydney

18 Oct 2019

McVicar's The Marriage of Figaro lights up the Opera Australia stage

By Chantal Nguyen

Pesaro

Puns, dirty jokes and bizarre misunderstandings: L’equivoco stravagante at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei, 13 August 2019

A new, successful production by Leiser and Caurier supports a great cast of Rossini specialists, with Teresa Iervolino, Paolo Bordogna and Davide Luciano in the lead roles.

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Pesaro

13 Aug 2019

Puns, dirty jokes and bizarre misunderstandings

By Laura Servidei

Sydney

A giggle a minute: Il turco in Italia in Sydney

By Zoltán Szabó, 10 August 2018

Turco inspired many a great opera director in the past; understandably, as it offers plenty of splendid comic situations. Simon Phillips' hilarious 2014 production is revived by Opera Australia.

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Sydney

10 Aug 2018

A giggle a minute: Il turco in Italia in Sydney

By Zoltán Szabó

Pesaro

A frivolous La pietra del paragone at the Rossini Opera Festival

By James Imam, 11 August 2017

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.

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Pesaro

11 Aug 2017

A frivolous La pietra del paragone in Pesaro

By James Imam

London

Giant haystacks: Pelly's sunny L'elisir d'amore romps back to Covent Garden

By Mark Pullinger, 27 May 2017

This was meant to be Pretty Yende's night, but it was Armenian tenor Liparit Avetisyan who stole hearts as country bumpkin Nemorino.

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London

27 May 2017

Giant haystacks: Pelly's sunny L'elisir d'amore

By Mark Pullinger

Milan

Rossini’s Thieving Magpie doesn’t quite take flight at La Scala

By Mark Pullinger, 12 April 2017

La gazza ladra celebrates its 200th anniversary with a new production at La Scala, an earthbound effort from director Gabriele Salvatores, but it was Riccardo Chailly who drew the wrath of sections of the Milanese audience.

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Milan

12 Apr 2017

Thieving Magpie doesn’t quite take flight at La Scala

By Mark Pullinger

Sydney

Laughs aplenty in Rossini’s Barber at the Sydney Opera House

By David Larkin, 28 January 2016

A well-worked revival of Elijah Moshinsky's production of Rossini's Barber of Seville offers gales of laughter and vocal delights at the Sydney Opera House, with starring roles for Paolo Bordogna, Anna Dowsley and Warwick Fyfe

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Sydney

28 Jan 2016

Laughs aplenty in Rossini’s Barber at the Sydney Opera House

By David Larkin

Bergamo

A spirited Don Pasquale opens at Bergamo's Teatro Donizetti

By Courtney Smith, 17 October 2015

To open its 2015-16 season, Bergamo's Teatro Donizetti sourced a youthful, upbeat cast and fresh production for an enthusiastic Don Pasquale.

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Bergamo

17 Oct 2015

A spirited Don Pasquale

By Courtney Smith

Naples

Paolo Bordogna stars in a flawless Don Pasquale in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 26 September 2015

A nimble, cheerful performance of Donizetti's dramma buffo in Naples, both by individuals and ensemble.

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Naples

26 Sep 2015

A flawless Don Pasquale in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Vienna

An overthought, underperformed Don Giovanni in Vienna

By Paul Selar, 16 June 2015

Within Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the darkest corners of the soul are exposed by music, stirred up by the lying, lecherous exploits of the aristocratic scoundrel, Don Giovanni.

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Vienna

16 Jun 2015

An overthought, underperformed Don Giovanni

By Paul Selar

Washington

No longer by the cinders: Tara Erraught’s American debut in with WNO Cenerentola

By Hilary Stroh, 11 May 2015

A visually striking production of Rossini's La Cenerentola for Washington National Opera.

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Washington

11 May 2015

No longer by the cinders: Tara Erraught’s Cenerentola

By Hilary Stroh

Turin

Rossini's Il turco in Italia: the strife of a poet pining for inspiration

By Edoardo Pelligra, 12 March 2015

Alden’s mise-en-scène developed the most modern aspects of Il turco's libretto. The stage not only showed what the Poet was participating towards, but the other characters also seemed to perform the poet’s conception of his own work.

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Turin

12 Mar 2015

Rossini's Il turco in Italia: the strife of a poet pining for inspiration

By Edoardo Pelligra

Sydney

Laughs aplenty in Opera Australia’s delightful Turk in Italy at Sydney Festival

By David Larkin, 22 January 2014

Opera Australia's laugh-out-loud production of Il Turco in Italia (“The Turk in Italy”) by Rossini at the Sydney Opera House combines vocal excellence and strong characterisation.

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Sydney

22 Jan 2014

Opera Australia at Sydney Festival: The Turk in Italy

By David Larkin

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Lyon

La Force du destin : Rustioni quitte l'Opéra de Lyon en beauté

By Stéphane Lelièvre, 14 March 2025

Une vision scénique peu convaincante, mais une interprétation musicale galvanisée par la direction de Daniele Rustioni qui dirige ici sa dernière production lyrique en tant que directeur musical de l'Opéra de Lyon.

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Lyon

14 Mar 2025

La Force du destin : Rustioni quitte l'Opéra de Lyon en beauté

By Stéphane Lelièvre

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Barcelona

Dándole cuerda al cuento: La Cenerentola de Dante y Sagripanti en el Gran Teatre del Liceu

By Maria Sánchez, 21 May 2024

El cuento clásico musicado por Rossini es recreado por Emma Dante como un mundo lleno de color que esconde un lado turbio, moviéndose entre lo coquette y lo grotesco.sagr

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Barcelona

21 May 2024

Dándole cuerda al cuento: La Cenerentola de Dante y Sagripanti

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Vienna

Rossini zum Abheben schön: La gazza ladra am MusikTheater an der Wien

By Norman Schwarze, 18 November 2022

Tobias Kratzer überzeugt mit einer realitätsnahen und beschwingten Inszenierung von La gazza ladra am MusikTheater an der Wien.

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Vienna

18 Nov 2022

Rossini zum Abheben schön: La gazza ladra am MusikTheater an der Wien

By Norman Schwarze

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Toulouse

Au Capitole, un Barbier frénétique voit triompher Sempey et Amiel

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 22 May 2022

Dernière production de la saison toulousaine, le Barbier mis en scène par Josef Ernst Köpplinger est un spectacle qui fourmille de détails réjouissants, défendu par une distribution en grande forme.

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Toulouse

22 May 2022

Au Capitole, un Barbier frénétique voit triompher Sempey et Amiel

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

Munich

„Stummfilm“ mit Supersound: Rossinis Il Signor Bruschino an der Bayerischen Staatsoper

By Rainer Zerbst, 22 March 2021

Ein Wollknäuel bringt in dieser Inszenierung von Il Signor Bruschino alles ins Rollen, und das buchstäblich.

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Munich

22 Mar 2021

„Stummfilm“ mit Supersound: Rossinis Il Signor Bruschino in München

By Rainer Zerbst

Montpellier

Le capricieux Barbier de l’Opéra de Montpellier

By Tristan Labouret, 30 September 2020

Ouverture de saison lyrique à Montpellier avec le chef-d'œuvre de Rossini, bien traité par la distribution et la direction musicale mais desservi par la mise en scène.

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Montpellier

30 Sep 2020

Le capricieux Barbier de l’Opéra de Montpellier

By Tristan Labouret

Barcelona

L'elisir de Mario Gas triunfa en el Liceu de Barcelona

By Miquel Martínez, 07 January 2018

El Gran Teatre del Liceu presenta la magnífica producción de Mario Gas de L'elisir d'amore. Ramón Tebar en la dirección musical llevó con brío la orquesta y el cuarteto protagonista se ganó al público en esta hilarante historia.

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Barcelona

07 Jan 2018

L'elisir de Mario Gas triunfa en el Liceu de Barcelona

By Miquel Martínez

Munich

Mozart im Wunderland: Le nozze di Figaro an der Bayerischen Staatsoper

By Norman Schwarze, 31 October 2017

In einer nüchternen Inszenierung hat Christof Loy versucht, in Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro vor allem musikalisch neue Akzente zu setzen.

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Munich

31 Oct 2017

Mozart im Wunderland: Le nozze di Figaro in München

By Norman Schwarze