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A visually striking Nabucco lacks heart at the Festival Verdi
Pier Luigi Pizzi’s staging looks impressive but feels empty. Lidia Fridman’s Abigaille ignites the evening.
Alzira: mining for gold at the Festival Verdi
Manuel Renga directs a simple, but sympathetic production of Verdi's early opera set in 16th-century Peru.
Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for 1857 Simon Boccanegra
Boccanegra butchered in Parma? Only in the sense that director Valentina Carrasca sets the opera in an abattoir...
Reverence and beauty in Mariotti’s Verdi Requiem in Parma
A Verdi Festival account where the orchestral detail registers with true distinction and the singing impresses.
Storm clouds gather over Verdi Festival opener
Audience protests against Roberto Abbado interrupt the opening night of the festival, Yannis Kokkos' staging of La forza del destino.
A traditional Attila at the Verdi Festival in Parma
Traditionally, Italy's most unforgiving loggionisti are reputed to reside at Parma's Teatro Regio. Thankfully for the cast, they appear to be a dying breed.
A melancholy Falstaff at the Verdi Festival in Parma
Not a particularly revealing Falstaff, but a pleasing performance though. Maybe one would have expected something of greater impact from a festival like this one, but that goal had already accomplished by Graham Vick with his Stiffelio the night before...