Performer: Massimiliano Chiarolla

A fresh, gleaming production of director Elena Barbalich, with as much vaudeville as possible

Stefano Poda's staging has its own coherence, but it is as cold as the Chinese princess. 

This revival of a 2012 staging by Ferzan Ozpetek tells the story efficiently, while conductor Nello Santi only at times made us experience all the emotional depths this opera contains.