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One of Teatro San Carlo’s most cherished productions of recent years, with an excellent cast of singers and a director who steered at his ease into the libretto’s erratic changes of mood and atmosphere.

After a number of eccentric stagings, Mario Pontiggia's traditional production is a hit in Naples. 

With so little of worth happening onstage, this performance requires a unanimously strong set of performances from the main cast.

Stefano Poda's staging has its own coherence, but it is as cold as the Chinese princess.