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Maria Stuarda: the second episode in Jetske Mijnssen's Tudor trilogy opens in Naples

Pretty Yende (Maria Stuarda) and Aigul Akhmetshina (Elisabetta)
© Luciano Romano
Aigul Akmetshina (Elisabetta)
© Luciano Romano
Chiara Polese (Anna Kennedy) and Pretty Yende (Maria Stuarda)
© Luciano Romano
Aigul Akmetshina (Elisabetta) and ensemble
© Luciano Romano
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“conductor Riccardo Frizza ensured perfect orchestral balance and audibility”
Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 20 June 2024
Donizetti, Maria Stuarda
Teatro di San Carlo
Riccardo Frizza, Conductor
Jetske Mijnssen, Director
Ben Baur, Set Designer
Klaus Bruns, Costume Designer
Cor van der Brink, Lighting Designer
Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo
Coro del Teatro di San Carlo
Pretty Yende, Maria Stuarda
Aigul Akhmetshina, Elisabetta
Francesco Demuro, Earl of Leicester
Chiara Polese, Anna
Carlo Lepore, Talbot
Sergio Vitale, Cecil
Rosa Feola’s Lucia rescues a San Carlo production showing its age
***11
Laurent Pelly’s Falstaff passes the Naples test with flying colours
*****
Ludovic Tézier delivers a noble Nabucco in Naples
***11
Ennio Morricone’s only opera, Partenope, finally premiered in Naples
***11
San Carlo’s Medea a clash of worlds in a neoclassical framework
***11
Vocal triumph in Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro di San Carlo
****1
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