Love in a diner

By Larissa Schütz, 06 June 2014

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Reviewed at Haus für Mozart, Salzburg on 5 June 2014

Rossini, La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Conductor

Damiano Michieletto, Director

Paolo Fantin, Set Designer

Lynette Tapia, Clorinda

Cecilia Bartoli, Angelina (Cinderella)

Hilary Summers, Tisbe

Javier Camarena, Don Ramiro

Nicola Alaimo, Dandini, valet to Ramiro

Ugo Guagliardo, Alidoro

Enzo Capuano, Don Magnifico

Wagner’s Lohengrin finally returns – swanless – to Rome

Pia Maltri, 27th November

Damiano Michieletto is entrusted with the first staging of Lohengrin in Rome for 50 years, but his distracting staging is redeemed by the musical side of things.

***11

A long, strange trip: Opera Philadelphia’s Il viaggio a Reims

Cameron Kelsall, 19th September

The intrepid company brings Damiano Michieletto’s well-traveled production of a Rossini rarity to the US for the first time.

***11

Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová

Mark Valencia, 3rd August

Damiano Michieletto’s production of Janáček’s opera breaks a key tenet of high-concept opera: where it should reveal, it obfuscates.

***11

World premiere success for Filidei’s Il nome della rosa at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 27th April

A great cast and an enjoyable score seal the success of a new opera based on Umberto Eco's classic historical murder mystery, The Name of the Rose.

****1

Mummy issues: Michieletto’s Carmen returns to The Royal Opera

Dominic Lowe, 9th April

Aigul Akhmetshina is on the verge of becoming the definitive Carmen; in this first revival of Michieletto's 2024 production at Covent Garden, she delivers the standout performance.

***11

Fish, frocks and farce: a Prokofiev romp in Vienna

Chanda VanderHart, 28th March

Damiano Michieletto directs a slick and frequently hilarious staging of Prokofiev's comic opera Betrothal in a Monastery.

***11

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Larissa Schütz

Larissa Schütz lebt und studiert Musikwissenschaft in der Mozartstadt Salzburg. Neben der Oper des 18. Jahrhunderts schlägt ihr Herz aber auch für das Musikdrama Wagners und dessen Zeit. Wenn sie nicht gerade im Konzertsaal sitzt, moderiert sie eine Musiksendung bei einem Salzburger Radiosender.

La Cenerentola - finding true love in a diner