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PesaroLa scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
Rossini: La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
Iván López Reynoso; Damiano Michieletto; Rossini Opera Festival; Paolo Fantin; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
AmsterdamFausto, a forgotten opera
Bertin: Fausto
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest); Giulio Cilona; Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor); Raffaella Lupinacci; Yaritza Véliz; Ante Jerkunica
ParisMitridate, re di PontoConcert performance
Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, K87 (K74a)
Francesco Corti; Basel Chamber Orchestra; Ian Koziara; Francesca Pia Vitale; Chiara Skerath
BarcelonaThe Exterminating Angel
Adès: The Exterminating Angel
Thomas Adès; Calixto Bieito; Gran Teatre del Liceu; Anna-Sofia Kirsch; Ingo Krügler; Reinhard Traub; Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu
ParisPlatéeConcert performance
Rameau: Platée
Camille Delaforge; Ensemble Il Caravaggio; Chœur de chambre Mélisme(s); Lila Dufy; Catherine Trottmann
NaplesMitridate, re di Ponto, K87 (K74a)New production
Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, K87 (K74a)
Riccardo Frizza; Claus Guth; Teatro di San Carlo; Christian Schmidt; Ursula Kudrna; Olaf Winter; Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo
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Fizzing farce: La scala di seta at the Rossini Opera Festival
Rossini’s La scala di seta returns to the ROF in a lively revival of Damiano Michieletto’s production that combines the composer’s sparkling music with a playful contemporary staging.
Antonia Bembo’s Ercole amante wins hearts at the Opéra de Paris
Leonardo García-Alarcón's exhumation of Bembo's work proves a winner, in a hyper-quirky staging by Netia Jones with Julie Fuchs as the pick of the fine singers.
A long, strange trip: Opera Philadelphia’s Il viaggio a Reims
The intrepid company brings Damiano Michieletto’s well-traveled production of a Rossini rarity to the US for the first time.
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Christophe Rousset leads Les Talens Lyriques and a stellar cast in a superb rendition of Mozart’s first opera seria.
Not quite a premiere, not quite a success: Salieri’s Kublai Khan
Martin G Berger exhaustively reworks the story and the libretto of Salieri's Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari and throws the kitchen sink at this new production, but not everything lands well.
Faith and fortune: Opera Philadelphia presents Carmina Burana
Carl Orff's bawdy choral work shares a program with the sweet and sincere Credo, a rediscovered work by the American composer and arranger Margaret Bonds.
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ParisErcole amante – Antonia BemboNew production
Bembo: Ercole amante
Leonardo García-Alarcón; Netia Jones; Opéra national de Paris; Fabiana Piccioli; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris