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Pesaro

Pier Luigi Pizzi’s elegant, black and white Barbiere convinces once again in Pesaro

By Laura Servidei, 10 August 2024

Rossini’s most famous masterpiece returns to Pesaro in Pier Luigi Pizzi’s beloved production, with a solid cast.

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Pesaro

10 Aug 2024

Pizzi’s elegant, black and white Barbiere convinces again in Pesaro

By Laura Servidei

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Venice

Méphistophélès returns to the stage in Gounod’s Faust at La Fenice!

By Laura Servidei, 30 April 2022

The Teatro La Fenice reprises Joan Anton Rechi’s production in its full stage version, less inspiring than the one expanded through the whole theatre during Covid times.

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Venice

30 Apr 2022

Méphistophélès returns to the stage in Gounod’s Faust at La Fenice!

By Laura Servidei

Venice

La Fenice transformed into a cathedral for Joan Antón Rechi's vision of Gounod's Faust

By Renato Verga, 03 July 2021

The real sensation of the evening was Alex Esposito – this time, Gounod's Faust should have been titled Méphistophélès...

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Venice

03 Jul 2021

La Fenice transformed into a cathedral for Gounod's Faust

By Renato Verga

Pesaro

Pier Luigi Pizzi’s Barbiere triumphs in Pesaro

By Laura Servidei, 16 August 2018

The Rossini Opera Festival stages a new production of the most famous of Rossini’s masterpieces to celebrate the composer in the 150th anniversary of his death.

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Pesaro

16 Aug 2018

Pier Luigi Pizzi’s Barbiere triumphs in Pesaro

By Laura Servidei

Venice

La Fenice's superb new Widow is always Merry, even without sequins and ostrich feathers

By Renato Verga, 02 February 2018

Damiano Michieletto's new production in Venice sets the operetta in the 1950s.

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Venice

02 Feb 2018

La Fenice's superb new Widow is always Merry, even without sequins and ostrich feathers

By Renato Verga

Pesaro

A frivolous La pietra del paragone at the Rossini Opera Festival

By James Imam, 11 August 2017

The young tenor Maxim Mironov, who played the poet Giocondo, was the name on everyone's lips by the end of the show. His voice is a modestly-sized and soft-grained, but it is beautifully produced, and focuses to a laser-like point up top.

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Pesaro

11 Aug 2017

A frivolous La pietra del paragone in Pesaro

By James Imam

Venice

Venetian floods the setting for Filippo Perocco's Aquagranda at La Fenice

By Renato Verga, 08 November 2016

Fifty years ago, on 4 November 1966, Venice was struck by a terrible flood. Now this is the subject of a new opera by composeer Filippo Perocco premiered at the Teatro La Fenice.

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Venice

08 Nov 2016

Filippo Perocco's Aquagranda at La Fenice

By Renato Verga

Rome

Stripping away the varnish: Tosca at Rome's Teatro dell'Opera

By James Imam, 28 June 2015

The visual results are stunning, though an uneven cast made this a performance with clear weaknesses as well as strengths. Aquiles Machado's Cavaradossi, on the other hand, was an indubitable revelation.

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Rome

28 Jun 2015

Stripping away the varnish: Tosca in Rome

By James Imam

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Liège

Lucrezia Borgia ou les sortilèges du bel canto à l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

By Stéphane Lelièvre, 10 April 2026

Retour du bel canto à Liège avec une belle production de l'opéra de Gaetano Donizetti où triomphe, dans le rôle-titre, une Jessica Pratt impressionnante de maîtrise et d'engagement.

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Liège

10 Apr 2026

Lucrezia Borgia ou les sortilèges du bel canto à Liège

By Stéphane Lelièvre