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Neorealist nostalgia: Monteverdi’s Ulisse in post-war Sicily

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria © Lorenzo Gorini

Davide Livermore creates a successful production of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, with a great cast led by Mauro Borgioni. 

Tales of woe: Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo at Versailles

Franco Fagioli (Romeo) and Adèle Charvet (Giulietta) © Ian Rice
Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo won the favour of no less than Napoleon I himself and a new production at the Opéra Royal offers an appropriately regal setting in which to see Gilles Rico's new production of this once famous opera.

Orfeo: el delicado equilibrio del brotar de la música

Europa Galante y el Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música se unen en el escenario bajo la dirección de Fabio Biondi para dar vida a Orfeo, de Monteverdi.

Tudor queen in the House of Windsor: Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra

A new production by Davide Livermore transforms Elizabeth I into Elizabeth II. Evelino Pidò leads a solid cast in one of the earliest opera seria by Gioachino Rossini.

Vivaldi's Farnace returns to Venice at the Teatro Malibran

Christophe Gayral gives Vivaldi's Farnace a contemporary update at the Teatro Malibran, but there are musical compensations. 

La Fenice reopens its doors with Vivaldi's first opera

The lack of a curtain has forced the director to employ a new inventiveness, if only with partially success.