Venue: Teatro Costanzi, Teatro dell'Opera, Rome

After singing the role of Violetta over 300 times, Ermonela Jaho announces this Rome run of La traviata will be her last. 

Clever direction by Emma Dante matches an impressive cast, led by countertenor Carlo Vistoli taking the title role. 

With its 1940s setting, Luca Del Fusco’s direction alienates in a new production of Gounod's Shakespeare-inspired opera. 

Robert Carsen’s staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707. 

In an opera rarely staged in Italy, David Hermann skilfully masters the metatheatrical challenges posed by the libretto to Ariadne auf Naxos. 

The Italian premiere of Lucia Ronchetti’s Inferno at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma uses Dante’s original verses, but her score fails to match their beauty. 

Originally staged at the Caracalla Baths in 2014, Davide Livermore’s production comes in from the cold. 

Damiano Michieletto is entrusted with the first staging of Lohengrin in Rome for 50 years, but his distracting staging is redeemed by the musical side of things.