Performer: Marco Berti

Tenor-turned-director José Cura transplants the action from southern Italy to Buenos Aires. 

One wonders why Emma Dante's concept, which explores the plight of women crushed by romantic catastrophes, is not done more often.

The return of the Met's Aida was a joyous celebration of the art form with excellent singers and orchestra doing what they do best against the backdrop of a traditional but effective staging.

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

Zeffirelli excess and Woody Allen wit: Los Angeles Opera's season opens with a double bill of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.

Mario Martone's Cavalleria rusticana—Pagliacci returns to La Scala, with results that do not always convince.