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Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek stages this new production of Madama Butterfly at Teatro San Carlo in Naples with a fine, penetrating approach.

Jean-Paul Scarpitta’s San Carlo staging was almost as minimal as a biblical oratorio.

Tokyo's New National Theatre is currently celebrating its twentieth anniversary season with three new productions and revivals of their most popular productions including Vincent Boussard’s minimal yet colourful Traviata.

This revival of a 2012 staging by Ferzan Ozpetek tells the story efficiently, while conductor Nello Santi only at times made us experience all the emotional depths this opera contains.

In Vienna State Opera's new production of Rigoletto, director Pierre Audi brings us close to a Rigoletto less freakish, more identifiably everyday. 

L'Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier reprend la mise en scène de David Hermann créée en 2017. Une production marquée par la belle direction de Michael Schønwandt.

Fehlende Spannung in musikalischer wie szenischer Hinsicht konnten bei dieser Wiederaufnahme auch gute Einzelleistungen nicht wettmachen.