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

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

Café Momus, Act 2 © Brescia & Amisano | Teatro alla Scala

Milan

Happy Birthday, Maestro Zeffirelli! La Scala revives a beloved Bohème

By Laura Servidei, 04 March 2023

Marina Rebeka and Freddie de Tommaso are the protagonists in the 200th performance of the historical production of La bohème by Franco Zeffirelli, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, under the baton of Eun Sun Kim, who debuts at La Scala.

****1

****1

Milan

04 Mar 2023

Happy Birthday, Maestro Zeffirelli! La Scala revives a beloved Bohème

By Laura Servidei

Bergamo

Il borgomastro di Saardam: Donizetti's opera buffa revived in Bergamo

By Renato Verga, 26 November 2017

Absent from theatres for more than a century and a half, Donizetti's comedy about Tsar Peter the Great is revived in the composer's home town.

****1

****1

Bergamo

26 Nov 2017

Rare Donizetti opera buffa revived in Bergamo

By Renato Verga

Genoa

A dispiriting première for Maria Stuarda at the Teatro Carlo Felice

By James Imam, 17 May 2017

One might have hoped for a memorable performance of the work for its absolute première at the Carlo Felice. Instead, this was an experience to quickly forget.

**111

**111

Genoa

17 May 2017

A dispiriting Maria Stuarda in Genoa

By James Imam

Markus Werba (Figaro) © Marco Brescia & Rudy Amisano

Milan

A vaudevillian Le nozze di Figaro from Frederic Wake-Walker at La Scala

By Renato Verga, 26 October 2016

At La Scala, Milan a disappointing tribute to Giorgio Strehler's historic staging of The Marriage of Figaro by young English director Frederic Wake-Walker.

***11

***11

Milan

26 Oct 2016

A vaudevillian Figaro at La Scala

By Renato Verga

Milan

Wilson's stunning L'incoronazione di Poppea at La Scala

By James Imam, 13 February 2015

Pared-down sets and minimal stagework draw eyes and ears forward in concentration. Whilst the text is at times searingly erotic, Nero and Poppea never touch.

****1

****1

Milan

13 Feb 2015

Wilson's stunning Poppea at La Scala

By James Imam