Performer: Emanuele Luzzati

Despite an early misadventure, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma launches Maurizio Scaparro's staging of Rossini's comic opera with panache. 

An impressive revival of Filippo Crivelli's 1998 production of Il barbiere di Siviglia, with a lively cast in Naples.

Principals Anbeta Toromani and Alessandro Macario shine in an otherwise underwhelming production.