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Young Mozart returns to Venice: Il sogno di Scipione
Three sopranos and three tenors express a catalogue of "affections" in musical numbers full of coloratura and virtuosic effects that are already 100% Mozart despite the young age of the composer.
Dafne returns to Florence four centuries later
The imaginative baroque architecture of the Buontalenti Grotto in Palazzo Pitti Boboli Gardens is an inert background to the action in this reprise of one of the first operas.
Turin's Orpheus does not ascend to Heaven
In the Teatro Regio's production everything is according to the script, but the magic of the stage is absent.
Monteverdi 450's Ulisse docks in Salzburg
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, the second opera of the Monteverdi 450 trilogy being toured by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, had a strong performance in Salzburg.
An emotional L'Orfeo for Monteverdi 450
Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi 450 trilogy began its Salzburg run with a tear-jerking concert performance of L'Orfeo.
Monteverdi's Orfeo forever fresh in Gardiner's hands
A joyously fresh and zesty Orfeo, played on a selection of period instruments and with a magnificent leading tenor, makes for a superb evening of Monteverdi with Sir John Eliot Gardiner.