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RomeMariotti: Le due Petite Messe

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Rossini: Petite messe solennelle
Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Michele Mariotti; Hasmik Torosyan; Carlo Vistoli; Dmitry Korchak; Michele Pertusi

RomeMariotti: Le due Petite Messe

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Rossini: Petite messe solennelle
Michele Mariotti; Hasmik Torosyan; Carlo Vistoli; Dmitry Korchak; Michele Pertusi
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Fizzing farce: La scala di seta at the Rossini Opera Festival

Hasmik Torosyan (Giulia) and Iurii Samoilov (Blansac) © Amati Bacciardi

Rossini’s La scala di seta returns to the ROF in a lively revival of Damiano Michieletto’s production that combines the composer’s sparkling music with a playful contemporary staging. 

***11
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An elegant and vocally fine Don Pasquale in Tokyo

New National Theatre Tokyo's new staging of Donizetti's jolly Don Pasquale, in Stefano Vizioli's classic production, featured some sparkling vocal performances from a fine cast.
****1
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The Pearl Fishers: Turin opens its operatic season

The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.
**111
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La rondine: a flimsy work in pastel colours in Florence

Ekaterina Bakanova (Magda) © Michele Borzoni | Terraproject
Commissioned as an operetta, La rondine became a true opera instead, and was presented in 1917 in Montecarlo at the high point of WW1.
***11
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Rossini's Turk given in memory of Alberto Zedda

In Livermore's staging the scheme becomes meta-cinematographic: the poet Prosdocimus here has Marcello Mastroianni's features in Fellini's film 8 ½.
***11
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Understated elegance: Robert Carsen's sublime Bohème

Robert Carsen's understated elegance on stage counterbalances Puccini’s highly charged melodrama. 
****1
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