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BrusselsCavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci
Mascagni, Leoncavallo
Alevtina Ioffe; Damiano Michieletto; La Monnaie | De Munt; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra
TurinCavalleria rusticana / PagliacciNew production
Mascagni, Leoncavallo
Andrea Battistoni; Daniele Menghini; Teatro Regio di Torino; Davide Signorini; Nika Campisi; Gianni Bertoli; Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino
ZurichLa fanciulla del WestNew production
Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Marco Armiliato; Lydia Steier; Zurich Opera; David Zinn; Olaf Freese; Orchester der Oper Zürich
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Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci crown Turin’s Verismo Festival
Cav & Pag remain a potent pairing in stagings by two directors which unites the operas via liturgical settings in the Teatro Regio di Torino’s Verismo Festival.
La fanciulla del West revival fails to reignite the spark in Naples
Huge de Ana's staging is carefully crafted but feels dramaturgically outdated as the Teatro di San Carlo heads into the twilight of sovrintendente Stéphane Lissner’s final season.
Puccini’s Il trittico: a successful revival in Munich
Ermonela Jaho steals the scene as Suor Angelica in a very successful revival of Lotte de Beer’s production.
A striking Carmen in Bregenz
This summer’s production of Bizet’s Carmen on the Seebühne stage in Bregenz offers a great spectacle.
Kuss der Venus: neue Pique Dame an der Deutschen Oper Berlin
In seiner neuen Inszenierung schafft Sam Brown mit naturalistischem Bühnenbild einen librettotreuen Kostüm- und Kulissenschinken, der die Zeiten transzendiert. Dabei heraus sticht Doris Soffel mit extravaganter Bühnenpräsenz.
Andrea Chénier ou la Révolution française à l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Malgré l'absence du très attendu Jonas Kaufmann dans le rôle-titre, la production monégasque bénéficie d'une distribution de qualité, d'une direction musicale remarquable et d'une mise en scène efficace.