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ParmaNabuccoNew production

Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar (Nabucco) © Roberto Ricci | Festival Verdi
Verdi: Nabucco
Francesco Lanzillotta; Pier Luigi Pizzi; Teatro Regio di Parma; Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna

BussetoAida

Federica Vitali (Aida) © Roberto Ricci | Festival Verdi
Verdi: Aida
Giuseppe Mengoli; Franco Zeffirelli; Teatro Regio di Parma; Anna Anni; Fiammetta Baldiserri; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini

ParmaAlziraNew production

Marta Torbidoni (Alzira) and Daniel Luis de Vicente (Gusmano) © Roberto Ricci | Festival Verdi
Verdi: Alzira
James Conlon; Manuel Renga; Teatro Regio di Parma; Aurelio Colombo; Emanuele Agliati; Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini

ParmaMessa da Requiem

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini; Daniele Rustioni; Eleonora Buratto; Ekaterina Semenchuk; Saimir Pirgu; Roberto Tagliavini
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A visually striking Nabucco lacks heart at the Festival Verdi

Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar (Nabucco) © Roberto Ricci | Festival Verdi
Pier Luigi Pizzi’s staging looks impressive but feels empty. Lidia Fridman’s Abigaille ignites the evening.
***11
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Nile spectacular: Franco Zeffirelli’s intimate Aida revived in Busseto

Federica Vitali (Aida) © Roberto Ricci | Festival Verdi
Franco Zeffirelli’s Aida – compact yet simultaneously monumental – is thrilling revived at the tiny Teatro Verdi in Busseto.
*****
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Alzira: mining for gold at the Festival Verdi

Marta Torbidoni (Alzira) and Daniel Luis de Vicente (Gusmano) © Roberto Ricci | Festival Verdi
Manuel Renga directs a simple, but sympathetic production of Verdi's early opera set in 16th-century Peru. 
****1
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Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for 1857 Simon Boccanegra

Riccardo Zanellato (Fiesco), Adriano Gramigni (Pietro) and Vladimir Stoyanov (Simon Boccanegra) © Roberto Ricci
Boccanegra butchered in Parma? Only in the sense that director Valentina Carrasca sets the opera in an abattoir... 
****1
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Turbo-charged Trovatore: Verdi at full throttle in Fidenza

Enkelejda Shkoza (Azucena) © Roberto Ricci
All you need to stage Trovatore, according to Enrico Caruso, are “the four greatest singers in the world”. The Verdi Festival may have found the four loudest...
***11
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Reverence and beauty in Mariotti’s Verdi Requiem in Parma

A Verdi Festival account where the orchestral detail registers with true distinction and the singing impresses. 
****1
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TurinLes Pêcheurs de perlesConcert performance

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Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles
Ryan McAdams; Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai; Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma; Vincenzo Taormina; Rosa Feola