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Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Pamyra) © Amati Bacciardi

Beauty under siege: a new Siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei, 14 August 2026

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya dominates in Pesaro; around her, Davide Livermore’s visually striking production turns Rossini’s tale of war into a meditation on the destruction of classical beauty.

****1

****1

Pesaro

14 Aug 2026

Le Siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Opera Festival

By Laura Servidei

Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Almaviva) and Benedetta Torre (Susanna) © Brescia & Amisano | Teatro alla Scala

Milan

Giorgio Strehler’s Nozze di Figaro still going strong at La Scala

By Laura Servidei, 07 October 2023

A good, mostly Italian cast brings alive one of the most famous productions by the great director Giorgio Strehler, under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

***11

***11

Milan

07 Oct 2023

Giorgio Strehler’s Nozze di Figaro still going strong at La Scala

By Laura Servidei

Pesaro

Blue Nun Flórez prevails over de Ana’s gaudy garden of earthly delights

By Mark Pullinger, 09 August 2022

Opening the 2022 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Hugo de Ana's new production plunges Le Comte Ory into Hieronymus Bosch’s lusty triptych.

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****1

Pesaro

09 Aug 2022

Blue Nun Flórez prevails over de Ana’s garden of earthly delights

By Mark Pullinger

Milan

House of Sin: Olivier Py's Thaïs not a production to set pulses racing in Milan

By Mark Pullinger, 22 February 2022

Olivier Py's new production at La Scala is inspired by art depicting the Temptation of St Anthony, but turns out to be disappointingly tame.

***11

***11

Milan

22 Feb 2022

Olivier Py's Thaïs doesn't set pulses racing in Milan

By Mark Pullinger

Milan

Ariadne in Milan: the director cannot find the thread

By Renato Verga, 23 April 2019

Frederic Wake-Walker sticks to a vapid pop-parody that demeans the intellectual message of Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos.

***11

***11

Milan

23 Apr 2019

Ariadne in Milan: the director cannot find the thread

By Renato Verga

Milan

Bechtolf applies a touch of magic realism to Hänsel und Gretel at La Scala

By James Imam, 06 September 2017

Bechtolf's seductively imaginative staging consists in a flat pack fairytale world full of surprises that delight like the contents of a pop up book.

*****

*****

Milan

06 Sep 2017

A touch of magic realism to Hänsel und Gretel

By James Imam