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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

RomeFalstaff

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Verdi: Falstaff
Michele Mariotti; Tatjana Gürbaca; Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Henrik Ahr; Silke Willrett; Stefan Bolliger; Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

MilanMacbethNew production

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Verdi: Macbeth
Myung-whun Chung; Barrie Kosky; Teatro alla Scala; Klaus Grünberg; Klaus Bruns; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

MilanI puritani

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Bellini: I puritani
Fabio Luisi; Davide Livermore; Teatro alla Scala; Eleonora Peronetti; Gianluca Falaschi; Antonio Castro; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
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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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Diamonds and steel: Anna Pirozzi rules in La Scala’s Turandot revival

Anna Pirozzi (Turandot) and Mariangela Sicilia (Liù) © Teatro alla Scala | Brescia e Amisano

Visually enchanting and meticulously staged, this centenary revival confirms Livermore's production as a modern classic. 

****1
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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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La fanciulla del West revival fails to reignite the spark in Naples

La fanciulla del West © Luciano Romano
Huge de Ana's staging is carefully crafted but feels dramaturgically outdated as the Teatro di San Carlo heads into the twilight of sovrintendente Stéphane Lissner’s final season. 
**111
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Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for 1857 Simon Boccanegra

Riccardo Zanellato (Fiesco), Adriano Gramigni (Pietro) and Vladimir Stoyanov (Simon Boccanegra) © Roberto Ricci
Boccanegra butchered in Parma? Only in the sense that director Valentina Carrasca sets the opera in an abattoir... 
****1
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Kàt’a Kabanova takes flight in Naples

A terrific staging of Janáček's opera is successfully revived at the Teatro di San Carlo.
*****
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