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Performer: Carla Teti

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BrusselsCavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci

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Mascagni, Leoncavallo
Alevtina Ioffe; Damiano Michieletto; La Monnaie | De Munt; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

BerlinSemele

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Handel: Semele
George Petrou; Barrie Kosky; Komische Oper Berlin; Natacha Le Guen de Kerneizon; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin

BregenzLa traviataNew production

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Verdi: La traviata
Kirill Karabits; Damiano Michieletto; Pietro Rizzo; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti

LondonCarmen

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Bizet: Carmen
Sesto Quatrini; Damiano Michieletto; The Royal Opera; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

MilanOtelloNew production

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Verdi: Otello
Myung-whun Chung; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro alla Scala; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
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Darkness without passion: Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen at La Scala

Clémentine Margaine (Carmen) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Despite Michieletto's visual gloom, the evening is redeemed by Myung-whun Chung’s masterful conducting and a cast that brings conviction to a production that rarely trusts the opera’s own dramatic power.
**111
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Wagner’s Lohengrin finally returns – swanless – to Rome

Dmitry Korchak (Lohengrin) © Fabrizio Sansoni | Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
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
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A long, strange trip: Opera Philadelphia’s Il viaggio a Reims

Scott Conner (Lord Sidney) © Steven Pisano
The intrepid company brings Damiano Michieletto’s well-traveled production of a Rossini rarity to the US for the first time. 
***11
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Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová

Miryam Tomè (Angel), Kateřina Kněžíková (Kátya) and Rachael Wilson (Varvara) © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Marc Brenner
Damiano Michieletto’s production of Janáček’s opera breaks a key tenet of high-concept opera: where it should reveal, it obfuscates. 
***11
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World premiere success for Filidei’s Il nome della rosa at La Scala

Kate Lindsey (Adso da Melk) and ensemble © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

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

Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen) © RBO | Marc Brenner
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
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ParisSamson et Dalila

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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
Philippe Jordan; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

RomeLa Damnation de Faust

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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Daniele Gatti; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Veronica Simeoni; Pavel Černoch