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Venue: Teatro Regio di Torino, Turin

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AddressPiazza Castello 215
10124 Turin
Piedmont
Italy
Google maps45° 4' 14.527" N 7° 41' 15.080" E
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Riccardo Muti triumphs with Un ballo in maschera in Turin

Luca Micheletti (Renato), Piero Pretti (Riccardo) and ensemble © Andrea Macchia | Teatro regio di Torino

The Teatro Regio di Torino presents Andrea de Rosa's new production of Verdi’s operal, with a solid cast under the baton of Riccardo Muti. 

***11
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The Pearl Fishers: Turin opens its operatic season

The staging sways between tackiness and naivety, like those old Christmas cards with sequins glued to the edges of the figures.
**111
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The first modern staged performance of Paër’s Agnese in Turin

The Teatro Regio presents a Classical rarity with echoes of Mozart and anticipations of Rossini. Diego Fasolis conducts with imagination and spunk.
***11
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In Turin's Trovatore, the women carry the day

Female voices dominate in the vocal cast: Rachel Willis-Sørensen debuts as Leonora and charms the audience; Anna Maria Chiuri has the temperament and rich vocality requested by the role of the gypsy.
***11
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A strong Italian cast for Così fan tutte in Turin

Diego Fasolis gives an enlightened, 18th-century account of the Mozart/da Ponte masterpiece, with great precision and elegance.
****1
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On the female condition: two 20th-century operas in Turin

Two different variations of the female conditions: one of 1909 and now utterly out-of-date, the second of 1959 much more ut-to-date.
****1
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I Lombardi alla prima crociata returns to Turin after 93 years

The director presents the story clearly enough, but apart from that, there is not much going for this production.
***11
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Turin's Orpheus does not ascend to Heaven

In the Teatro Regio's production everything is according to the script, but the magic of the stage is absent. 
**111
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