Performer: Gaia Petrone

Leo Muscato directs an operatic rarity at the Festival Valle d'Itria, with Federico Maria Sardelli leading Orchestra Barocca Modo Antiquo.

A masterpiece from one of the Neapolitan School's most important protagonists, this rarely heard opera is musically rewarding but confusingly staged.

A concert performance makes our reviewer at the Teatro San Carlo pine for a return to staged opera. 

The Donizetti Opera festival continues its remarkable initiative to stage every opera on its bicentennial.

A bland staging: at the end what really emerged was Rossini’s glorious music, its intelligent construction and perfect beauty.

In a successfully streamlined staging, Stefano Landi’s obscure, overpopulated opera got the royal treatment by a superior cast and orchestra.