Alessandro is an opera, music and theatre lover, Italian born with a solid humanistic education, Londoner by adoption, he is been enjoying the London rich cultural scene for the past 14 years and recently started writing reviews.
Music it has always been part of his life. He used to be a choir singer and director, and amateur piano player.
Bringing to the stage Verdi’s Don Carlo is a demanding task at all levels: it requires five outstanding singers and a director able to manage the psyc...
The current production of Madama Butterfly at the Opera de Paris is the latest revival of the work created by Robert Wilson in 1993. The story is noto...
Bellini’s last opera, I Puritani, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre-Italien in 1835 and it was an immediate success. Just a few months later an illnes...
Cutting edge and provocative, this year’s new production of Cherubini’s Médée performed at Salzburg Festspiele is notable for the originality of the d...
This famous opera by Handel, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 April 1735, has always been one of the favourites of the baroq...
The Teatro Massimo’s new production of Donizetti’s La Favorite revives the tradition of Bel Canto in all its magnificence. Performed in Paris for the ...
There are many reasons why Puccini’s La Bohème is one of the favourite opera of every theatre in the world: the perfect balance of tragedy and comedy,...
The controversial Victor Hugo's play, Le roi s'amuse, offered Verdi the opportunity to break with the Italian operatic tradition of closed forms (reci...
The opening night of a new season at the Teatro Massimo is always an event for the entire city of Palermo, and this year is also its first great event...
