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Performer: Stefano Poda

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VeronaAida Ed. Stefano Poda

Fondazione Arena di Verona
Verdi: Aida
Daniel Oren; Stefano Poda; Arena di Verona Corps de Ballet; Arena di Verona Orchestra

VeronaNabucco

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

ToulouseRusalka

© Mirco Magliocca
Dvořák: Rusalka
Giacomo Sagripanti; Stefano Poda; Opéra National du Capitole de Toulouse; Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse
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Fate as ritual: Enescu’s Œdipe at the Bucharest National Opera

Œdipe © Andrei Gîndac
Visual symbolism and musical ambition in a production at the George Enescu International Festival. 
****1
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Eduardo e Cristina: a rarity opens the Rossini Festival

Eduardo e Cristina © Rossini Opera Festival | Amati Bacciardi
A strong cast and an inspiring production deliver the latest opera staged at the Rossini Opera Festival.
****1
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An enigmatic Turandot in Turin

Stefano Poda's staging has its own coherence, but it is as cold as the Chinese princess. 
***11
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Drowned in the orchestral storm: Otello at the Hungarian State Opera

Underwhelming performances, all too tempestuous conducting and an aesthetically pleasing but puzzling production fail to thrill.
**111
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A Faust between sulphur and damnation

Stefano Poda’s deeply intellectual mis-en-scene immersed the bourgeois love affair between Marguerite and Faust in an abstract and transcendental tangle of philosophical, existential and liturgical motifs. However, an overflowing symbolism sounded sometimes academic, but the visual effects were suggestive if not properly enchanting.
***11
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Le Villi à Nice : Puccini dans les brumes d’un conte noir

Le Villi à l'Opéra de Nice © Julien Perrin
La mise en scène de Stefano Poda fait de cet opéra de jeunesse de Puccini un véritable conte noir, dans une vision à la fois introspective, fantastique et intemporelle.
****1
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