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NaplesAidaConcert performance

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Verdi: Aida
Riccardo Frizza; Teatro di San Carlo; Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo; Coro del Teatro di San Carlo; Anna Netrebko; Jonas Kaufmann

NaplesMitridate, re di Ponto, K87 (K74a)New production

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Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, K87 (K74a)
Riccardo Frizza; Claus Guth; Teatro di San Carlo; Christian Schmidt; Ursula Kudrna; Olaf Winter; Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

NaplesAlcinaConcert performance

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Handel: Alcina
Iván López Reynoso; Teatro di San Carlo; Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo; Lisette Oropesa; Franco Fagioli; Erin Morley

NaplesLa Cenerentola

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Rossini: La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
Speranza Scappucci; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro di San Carlo; Paolo Fantin; Agostino Cavalca; Alessandro Carletti; Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo
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Werther revived at San Carlo: an anatomy of emotional isolation

Caterina Piva (Charlotte) and Francesco Demuro (Werther) © Luciano Romano

Willy Decker’s psychologically intense Werther returns to the Teatro di San Carlo with a deeply human interpretation by Francesco Demuro and refined conducting by Lorenzo Passerini.

*****
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Rosa Feola’s Lucia rescues a San Carlo production showing its age

Rosa Feola (Lucia) © Luciano Romano
Gianni Amelio's 2021 production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro di San Carlo serves the music, but it no longer commands the same sense of discovery.
***11
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Laurent Pelly’s Falstaff passes the Naples test with flying colours

Luca Salsi (Falstaff) © Luciano Romano
The French director’s much-travelled production arrives at the Teatro di San Carlo, displaying a precise balance between word, gesture and voice. 
*****
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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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Ennio Morricone’s only opera, Partenope, finally premiered in Naples

Ennio Morricone's Partenope © Luciano Romano
Vanessa Beecroft’s production of Ennio Morricone’s demanding sole opera relies on strong visual images. 
***11
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San Carlo’s Medea a clash of worlds in a neoclassical framework

Sondra Radvanovsky (Medea) © Luciano Romano
A new Medea at the Teatro di San Carlo presents three distinct visions – neoclassical in the pit, expressionistic on stage and conceptual in the direction – that never fully merge.
***11
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NaplesLa GiocondaNew production

Anna Netrebko (La Gioconda) © Luciano Romano
Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Pinchas Steinberg; Romain Gilbert; Teatro di San Carlo; Étienne Pluss; Christian Lacroix; Valerio Tiberi; Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo