Articles de Lorenzo Fiorito

Opera at its best. Lot of emotion in this fully melodramatic staging of Tosca in Naples, every performer was completely in their role.

A glittering production of Rossini's retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale at the Teatro San Carlo. 

A superb revival of Karole Armitage's staging of Gluck's masterpiece at Teatro di San Carlo.

A musically convincing production of Niccolò Jommelli's L'isola disabitata, but with too many pretentious stage ideas.

A very good production of Luisa Miller by the Teatro San Carlo, set in Naples itself.

Roberto De Simone's staging evokes a fabulous out-of-time China, and perfectly accompanies the majesty of Puccini’s last and unfinished opera. De Simone chooses to stop the opera at the point of Puccini's death, without Franco Alfano's finale.

A great love story as well as a cultural and musical shock as it has been from the beginning, this performance of Tristan und Isolde in Naples was led by an inspired Zubin Metha.

In this production of Andrea Chénier, love, liberty, revolution and death are all ingredients to create strong emotions: with a final ovation for the conductor.

A traditional, reassuring production of Bizet's popular opera, without any odd staging ideas. 

Director Michal Znaniecki sets the action of Verdi's popular Il trovatore in an indeterminate 20th century wartime, undecidedly trying to mix up visual suggestions and primeval anguish

A successful production for a scandalous opera which exercised a broad influence on the musical theatre of the 20th century.

Leo Muscato's new production of Rigoletto was the first in Rome since conductor Riccardo Muti resigned in September, denouncing a lack of "serenity". 

A joyful atnmophere in this production, thanks to the colourful staging and godible singing cast.

A Neapolitan farce which was successful in all Italian theatres, fun and frantic.

A correct rendition of an improvised program, featuring symphonies by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, following the sudden absence of the cellist Alban Gerhardt.

Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra gave a breath-taking performance, with  concentration and class.

A revival of the Italian version of a Baroque masterpiece by Lully was delivered in Palazzo Ducale in Martina Franca. 

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.

La lotta d’Ercole con Acheloo has never been performed in Italy before, so this production sheds light on both Steffani's work and on this Festival's high quality. 

This production of Puccini’s masterpiece was delivered on a monochromatic set, with  a director-centred staging of the story of love and despair of Cio-Cio San.