Performer: Claudio Sgura

Christof Loy’s psychological staging returns to the stage of Finnish National Opera, with Swedish soprano Elisabet Strid compelling in the title role. 

What do you do when your planned season opener bites the dust? Fly in the stars and put on a concert performance of a verismo favourite. 

With their second open-air concert performance, Teatro di San Carlo scores another hit.

Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros, the “Royal couple” of the Bayerische Staatsoper, enchant and melt hearts as the doomed lovers in Verdi’s late masterpiece.

A movie-like staging for Puccini's most original opera at the Teatro San Carlo.

Calixto Bieito's Tosca, despite an intriguingly modern setting, fails to make sparks fly.