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Cav & Pag remain a potent pairing in stagings by two directors which unites the operas via liturgical settings in the Teatro Regio di Torino’s Verismo Festival. 

Daniele Menghini’s production treats Mascagni’s giapponismo opera with sensitivity and dramatic conviction in the Teatro Regio di Torino’s Verismo Festival. 

All you need to stage Trovatore, according to Enrico Caruso, are “the four greatest singers in the world”. The Verdi Festival may have found the four loudest...

The controversial artist stages his first opera in Rome, with strong musical performances under dynamic Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv. 

Opportunities to see Mascagni's Guglielmo Ratcliff come few and far between, mainly because the title role is an absolute killer for any tenor mad enough to attempt it. Step forward, Angelo Villari...

The Festival della Valle d'Itria opened with a 20th century opera of some musical value, but of much more historical and philological interest for scholars.