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Standing ovation for reigning bel canto queen Mariella Devia

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Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 21 June 2014
Rossini, Semiramide: Overture (Arias)
Bellini, Norma: Casta Diva
Donizetti, Maria Stuarda (Preghiera)
Verdi, Les Vêpres siciliennes (I vespri siciliani): Merci, jeunes amies (Mercè, dilette amiche)
Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and The Montagues) (Arias )
Donizetti, Anna Bolena (Arias)
Verdi, I lombardi alla prima crociata (Arias)
Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo
José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, Conductor
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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