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Christophe Gayral gives Vivaldi's Farnace a contemporary update at the Teatro Malibran, but there are musical compensations. 

The lack of a curtain has forced the director to employ a new inventiveness, if only with partially success.

The Teatro Regio presents a Classical rarity with echoes of Mozart and anticipations of Rossini. Diego Fasolis conducts with imagination and spunk.

Diego Fasolis leads a period performance of Mozart’s early masterpiece with a strong cast and a clever production.

Diego Fasolis gives an enlightened, 18th-century account of the Mozart/da Ponte masterpiece, with great precision and elegance.

Ceresa’s flamboyant production from the Festival della Valle d’Itria is revived in Venice with a strong cast under the baton of Diego Fasolis.

David Pountney’s 2014 staging was revived in Naples with good singing and empathetic conducting.

The Staatsoper's new L'incoronazione di Poppea is serious, intelligent but short on fire.

This production of Antonio Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso showed the audience what a Baroque opera is.

As always in the librettos of the time, the historical events are just a weak excuse to stage timeless stories of jealousy, struggle for power, sexual desire – the ingredients in today's television series.

Interesting rediscovery of Veracini's first opera, composed for mythical castrati Senesino and Farinelly, and brought to life again by Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante.

A colour-coded Mosè in Egitto uses the paintings of Marc Chagall to inspire the costumes for the Jews and the Egyptians in this production of a Rossinian rarity.