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Neorealist nostalgia: Monteverdi’s Ulisse in post-war Sicily
Davide Livermore creates a successful production of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, with a great cast led by Mauro Borgioni.
Tales of woe: Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo at Versailles
Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo won the favour of no less than Napoleon I himself and a new production at the Opéra Royal offers an appropriately regal setting in which to see Gilles Rico's new production of this once famous opera.
Tudor queen in the House of Windsor: Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra
A new production by Davide Livermore transforms Elizabeth I into Elizabeth II. Evelino Pidò leads a solid cast in one of the earliest opera seria by Gioachino Rossini.
Vivaldi's Farnace returns to Venice at the Teatro Malibran
Christophe Gayral gives Vivaldi's Farnace a contemporary update at the Teatro Malibran, but there are musical compensations.
La Fenice reopens its doors with Vivaldi's first opera
The lack of a curtain has forced the director to employ a new inventiveness, if only with partially success.
Young Mozart returns to Venice: Il sogno di Scipione
Three sopranos and three tenors express a catalogue of "affections" in musical numbers full of coloratura and virtuosic effects that are already 100% Mozart despite the young age of the composer.