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Tristan and Isolde: an extreme love to die for in Naples

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Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 22 February 2015
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde
Teatro di San Carlo
Zubin Mehta, Conductor
Lluís Pasqual, Director
Ezio Frigerio, Set Designer
Franca Squarciapino, Costume Designer
Violeta Urmana, Isolde
Torsten Kerl, Tristan
Stephen Milling, King Marke
Lioba Braun, Brangäne
Alfredo Nigro, Melot
Jukka Rasilainen, Kurwenal
Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo
Coro del Teatro di San Carlo
Caroline Lang, Revival Director
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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