Lorenzo Fiorito PhD holds degrees in Modern Languages and Literatures and in the Humanities. He is a linguist, a lecturer, and head of the International Area at Online University Pegaso, Naples, Italy. He is a reviewer of poetry, a music lover, and an opera buff.
Film director Edoardo De Angelis sets his Tosca in a devastated, dystopiian suburb which mirrors and emphasises the opera's social degradation and immoral elements.
Willy Decker does not try to make the structure of the plot any clearer, mainly concentrating on the deeper meaning of the work. The cast was excellent.
Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek stages this new production of Madama Butterfly at Teatro San Carlo in Naples with a fine, penetrating approach.
One of Teatro San Carlo’s most cherished productions of recent years, with an excellent cast of singers and a director who steered at his ease into the libretto’s erratic changes of mood and atmosphere.
