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The Maggio postpones Pountney’s expected new production of Don Giovanni, presenting Ferrara’s production from Spoleto instead, with a good cast in the hands of Zubin Mehta.

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Florence

08 May 2023

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino's Don Giovanni falls at the final hurdle

By Laura Servidei

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Milan

A gloomy, dark Vespri siciliani at La Scala

By Laura Servidei, 01 February 2023

A somewhat disappointing new production by Hugo de Ana brings I vespri siciliani back to La Scala, where Fabio Luisi leads a successful musical production with a great cast.

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Milan

03 Feb 2023

A gloomy, dark Vespri siciliani at La Scala

By Laura Servidei

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Parma

Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for the original Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Regio

By Mark Pullinger, 25 September 2022

Boccanegra butchered in Parma? Only in the sense that director Valentina Carrasca sets the opera in an abattoir...

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Parma

26 Sep 2022

Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for 1857 Simon Boccanegra

By Mark Pullinger

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Florence

Juan Diego Flórez charms as Roméo in Florence

By Elena Luporini, 03 May 2022

For the 84th edition of its summer festival, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents its first ever production of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.

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Florence

05 May 2022

Juan Diego Flórez charms as Roméo in Florence

By Elena Luporini

Ravenna

Riccardo Muti conducts a majestic Macbeth in Ravenna

By James Imam, 15 July 2018

Muti unlocks the immense dramatic potential of Verdi's revolutionary score, providing a wealth of colour and detail capable of conjuring mysterious Shakespearean worlds with no need for staging.

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Ravenna

18 Jul 2018

Riccardo Muti conducts a majestic Macbeth in Ravenna

By James Imam

Florence

Fabio Luisi conducts Cardillac at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

By James Imam, 12 May 2018

The in-house orchestra played out of its skin under Fabio Luisi.

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Florence

16 May 2018

Cardillac at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

By James Imam

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Florence

La rondine: a flimsy work in pastel colours in Florence

By Renato Verga, 22 October 2017

Commissioned as an operetta, La rondine became a true opera instead, and was presented in 1917 in Montecarlo at the high point of WW1.

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Florence

23 Oct 2017

La rondine: a flimsy work in pastel colours in Florence

By Renato Verga

Rimini

Aroldo de Verdi vuelve a Rímini con una producción espléndida y controversial

By Francisco Martínez Ramos, 27 August 2021

Aroldo de Verdi vuelve a Rímini, 164 años después de su estreno, con una producción dirigida musicalmente por Manlio Benzi y con dirección escénica de Emilio Sala y Edoardo Sanchi.

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Rimini

29 Aug 2021

Aroldo de Verdi vuelve a Rímini con una producción espléndida

By Francisco Martínez Ramos