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RomeLucia di LammermoorNew production
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Giacomo Sagripanti; Karole Armitage; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Daniela Ciancio; Valerio Tiberi; Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
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Scappucci and Feola lead a compelling Lucia at La Scala
La Scala offers Lucia di Lammermoor as Donizetti intended it: complete, dramatically coherent and free of traditional cuts – a musicological achievement and a gripping theatrical experience.
Abandon all hope: Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno receives Italian premiere
The Italian premiere of Lucia Ronchetti’s Inferno at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma uses Dante’s original verses, but her score fails to match their beauty.
In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the Enescu Festival
Bucharest’s temples of culture present rites of closure by Mozart, Kurtág and Bruckner… and a fleeting glimpse of Nirvana.
World premiere success for Filidei’s Il nome della rosa at La Scala
A great cast and an enjoyable score seal the success of a new opera based on Umberto Eco's classic historical murder mystery, The Name of the Rose.
A dark, gothic Lucia di Lammermoor finally makes it to La Scala
Riccardo Chailly conducts a wonderful, integral performance of Donizetti’s masterpiece, with two of the greatest bel canto singers of our times.
Vivaldi's Farnace finally reaches Ferrara
Vivaldi's opera Farnace presents a basically insoluble problem: how to produce a more or less complete version. While this is not solved by the Ferrara production, it is strong musically and enjoyable.
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Michele Spotti; Barrie Kosky; Opéra national de Paris; Rufus Didwiszus; Victoria Behr; Ulrich Eh; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris