Performer: Jessica Nuccio

The staging highlighted Carmen’s rebellious traits more than her sensual exoticism.

Roberto Frontali is a stern, chillingly immobile Iago, armed with a brassy voice and a cleanness of diction that sees him carve Boito's text with surgical precision.

A revival of a verismo rarity: Umberto Giordano's La cene delle beffe at La Scala.