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VeronaNabucco

Fondazione Arena di Verona
Verdi: Nabucco
Michele Spotti; Stefano Poda; Arena di Verona Corps de Ballet; Sebastiano Rolli

VeronaTurandot

Fondazione Arena di Verona
Puccini: Turandot
Andrea Battistoni; Franco Zeffirelli; Arena di Verona Corps de Ballet; Emi Wada; Arena di Verona Orchestra; Arena di Verona Chorus

ParisMaria StuardaConcert performance

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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Clelia Cafiero; Orchestre de chambre de Paris; Chœur Les Eléments; Ermonela Jaho; Marina Viotti

MilanLucia di Lammermoor

Rosa Feola (Lucia) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Speranza Scappucci; Yannis Kokkos; Teatro alla Scala; Vinicio Cheli; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Torre del LagoTurandot

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Puccini: Turandot
Renato Palumbo; Alfonso Signorini; Carla Tolomeo; Fausto Puglisi; Valerio Alfieri; Orchestra del Puccini Festival

ParmaNabuccoNew production

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Verdi: Nabucco
Francesco Lanzillotta; Pier Luigi Pizzi; Teatro Regio di Parma; Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
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Scappucci and Feola lead a compelling Lucia at La Scala

Rosa Feola (Lucia) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla 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.

****1
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Anna Netrebko gatecrashes Riccardo Chailly’s La Scala farewell

Anna Netrebko (Abigaille) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala
Riccardo Chailly’s final new production as artistic director is a celebration of Verdi and of a conductor whose relationship with the Milanese audience has clearly deepened over the years.
*****
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Ludovic Tézier delivers a noble Nabucco in Naples

Ludovic Tézier (Nabucco) © Luciano Romano
Andreas Homoki’s staging at the Teatro di San Carlo, setting aside a few inconsistencies with the libretto, does not indulge in redundant symbolism. 
***11
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Soaring voices, stumbling direction: the turmoil of Norma at La Scala

Marina Rebeka (Norma) © Brescia e Amisano | Teatro alla Scala

After almost 50 years, the Teatro alla Scala presents a new production of Norma, with a great cast, some shadows in the orchestra direction and several failures in the production. 

***11
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Pizzi’s elegant, black and white Barbiere convinces again in Pesaro

Andrzej Filończyk (Figaro) © Amati Bacciardi

Rossini’s most famous masterpiece returns to Pesaro in Pier Luigi Pizzi’s beloved production, with a solid cast. 

***11
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Mariotti conquers La Scala in Muti’s gloomy new Guillaume Tell

Michele Pertusi (Guillaume Tell) © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

Chiara Muti's new production departs from the serene Swiss landscapes of valleys and mountains to depict a gloomy, dystopian world. 

***11
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ParisDon Pasquale

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Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Evelino Pidò; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra national de Paris; Paolo Fantin; Agostino Cavalca; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

RomeLes Vêpres siciliennes

Roberto Frontali (Montfort) and John Osborn (Henri) © Yasuko Kageyama | Opera di Roma
Verdi: Les Vêpres siciliennes (I vespri siciliani)
Daniele Gatti; Valentina Carrasco; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Richard Peduzzi; Luis F Carvalho; Roberto Frontali; John Osborn

ModenaDon Carlo

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Verdi: Don Carlo(s)
Jordi Bernàcer; Joseph Franconi Lee; Teatro comunale di Modena; Alessandro Ciammarughi; Claudio Schmid; Orchestra dell'Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini