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ParisMaria StuardaConcert performance
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Clelia Cafiero; Orchestre de chambre de Paris; Chœur Les Eléments; Ermonela Jaho; Anastasia Bartoli
NaplesLuisa MillerNew production
Verdi: Luisa Miller
Daniel Oren; Davide Livermore; Teatro di San Carlo; Eleonora Peronetti; Giusi Giustino; Nicolas Bovey; Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo
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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Emotionally compelling: Anna Netrebko in Verdi’s Requiem at La Scala
Gold dust, shattered shop windows and a soprano between profanity and prayer: Anna Netrebko’s dark intensity meets rare tenderness in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, as Milan’s unrest invades La Scala.
A visually striking Nabucco lacks heart at the Festival Verdi
Pier Luigi Pizzi’s staging looks impressive but feels empty. Lidia Fridman’s Abigaille ignites the evening.
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.
Anna Netrebko gatecrashes Riccardo Chailly’s La Scala farewell
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.
Ludovic Tézier delivers a noble Nabucco in Naples
Andreas Homoki’s staging at the Teatro di San Carlo, setting aside a few inconsistencies with the libretto, does not indulge in redundant symbolism.
Soaring voices, stumbling direction: the turmoil of Norma at La 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.
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ParisDon Pasquale
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
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
Verdi: Don Carlo(s)
Jordi Bernàcer; Joseph Franconi Lee; Teatro comunale di Modena; Alessandro Ciammarughi; Claudio Schmid; Orchestra dell'Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini