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Tézier and Netrebko dazzle in La Scala’s new La forza del destino

By David Karlin, 07 December 2024

For La Scala’s prima, outstanding vocal performances light up a busy but interesting staging of Verdi’s revenge opera by Leo Muscato.

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Milan

07 Dec 2024

Tézier and Netrebko dazzle in La Scala’s new Forza

By David Karlin

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London

Amartuvshin Enkhbat’s Rigoletto conquers Covent Garden

By David Karlin, 12 October 2023

It's been a long wait since Cardiff Singer 2015, but the Mongolian baritone gives an outstanding vocal portrayal of Verdi’s doomed jester at the Royal Opera House.

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London

12 Oct 2023

Amartuvshin Enkhbat’s Rigoletto conquers Covent Garden

By David Karlin

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Milan

Mario Martone gives Rigoletto a convincing modern twist at the Teatro alla Scala

By Laura Servidei, 08 July 2022

Conductor Michele Gamba gives a very personal interpretation of Rigoletto, in an intelligent new production by Mario Martone, which seals a great success for the trio of principal singers, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Nadine Sierra and Piero Pretti.

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Milan

08 Jul 2022

Mario Martone gives Rigoletto a convincing modern twist at La Scala

By Laura Servidei

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Milan

At La Scala, Davide Livermore sets La Gioconda in a dreamy Venetian landscape

By Laura Servidei, 07 June 2022

La Scala presents a new production of Ponchielli’s masterpiece, the first one in more than 20 years and a sequence of beautiful images supporting a solid cast, led by Saioa Hernández.

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Milan

07 Jun 2022

At La Scala, Livermore sets Gioconda in a dreamy Venetian landscape

By Laura Servidei

Naples

Everyone returns victorious in San Carlo's Aida

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 28 July 2020

With their second open-air concert performance, Teatro di San Carlo scores another hit.

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Naples

28 Jul 2020

Everyone returns victorious in San Carlo's Aida

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Naples

María José Siri shines as Norma in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 12 February 2020

Lorenzo Amato penetrates deep into the recesses of Bellini's opera.

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Naples

12 Feb 2020

María José Siri shines as Norma in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Naples

The Tales of Hoffmann are beautifully told in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 17 March 2019

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.

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Naples

17 Mar 2019

The Tales of Hoffmann are beautifully told in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Naples

A warm Mimì in a cold Bohème in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 11 January 2018

Only soprano Eleonora Buratto’s Mimì added real warmth and pathos to Mario Pontiggi's staging.

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Naples

11 Jan 2018

A warm Mimì in a cold Bohème in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Hamburg

Staff issues: Mozart's Figaro in Hamburg

By Matthew Rye, 11 February 2017

Mozart's very notes become servant to the cause in an ingenious staging of Le nozze di Figaro by one of today's most esteemed directors.

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Hamburg

11 Feb 2017

Staff issues: Mozart's Figaro in Hamburg

By Matthew Rye

Naples

Le nozze di Figaro in Naples: theatre first, then music

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 24 September 2016

Teatro di San Carlo closed its Opera Festival summer season with Le nozze di Figaro, which director Chiara Muti staged as a timeless classic

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Naples

24 Sep 2016

Theatre first, then music

By Lorenzo Fiorito

Edinburgh

William Tell brims with a palpable sense of relevance in concert performance at the Edinburgh Festival

By Thomas May, 26 August 2014

At the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival, Gianandrea Noseda leads the Teatro Regio Torino in a concert performance of Rossini's William Tell that offers enormous variety without quite hitting the bull's eye.

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Edinburgh

26 Aug 2014

Noseda's William Tell narrowly misses its mark

By Thomas May

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Madrid

Orfeo: el delicado equilibrio del brotar de la música

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 20 February 2022

Europa Galante y el Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música se unen en el escenario bajo la dirección de Fabio Biondi para dar vida a Orfeo, de Monteverdi.

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Madrid

20 Feb 2022

Orfeo: el delicado equilibrio del brotar de la música

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño