Il Bajazet: Vivaldi’s pasticcio given an extravagant staging at the Teatro Malibran

Ivor Bolton leads a great cast in a superb musical production of Mozart’s last masterpiece, in a lukewarm new production by Paul Curran.

John Osborn dazzles again as Tonio in a nostalgic new production by Barbe and Doucet, with a strong cast under the baton of Stefano Ranzani.

The Teatro La Fenice reprises Joan Anton Rechi’s production in its full stage version, less inspiring than the one expanded through the whole theatre during Covid times.

Ann Hallenberg leads a feast of fine singing, but the opera suffers from a somewhat confused, confusing production by Gianluca Falaschi.