Reviewer's Rating Falstaff Alessandro Zummo 28/02/2020Verdi’s last opera is a real artistic testament to the career of a composer who until the very end never...
Reviewer's rating Rigoletto Rivka Jacobson 15/09/2019I must confess, that one of the main reasons I so wanted to see this production of Rigoletto at the...
Reviewer's rating L’elisir d’amore (‘The Elixir of Love’) Rivka Jacobson 15/09/2019La Scala’s audience will not tolerate mediocracy from their leading singers nor from their orchestra. They love their operas and...
Reviewer's rating La Bohème Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 23/07/2019Staging an opera that is set in Paris during a cold winter around 1830 at an Italian open-air festival in...
Reviewer's rating La favorite Alessandro Zummo 28/02/2019The Teatro Massimo’s new production of Donizetti’s La Favorite revives the tradition of Bel Canto in all its magnificence. Performed...
Reviewer's Rating La Bohème Alessandro Zummo 22/12/2018There are many reasons why Puccini’s La Bohème is one of the favourite opera of every theatre in the world:...
Reviewer's Rating Rigoletto Alessandro Zummo 19/10/2018The controversial Victor Hugo’s play, Le roi s’amuse, offered Verdi the opportunity to break with the Italian operatic tradition of...
Reviewer's Rating Orlando Furioso Alina Bottez 23/04/2018The titular character of Ariosto’s poem is the Roland of the French and English mediaeval romances. The Italian poet’s sixteenth...
Reviewer's Rating Guillaume Tell Alessandro Zummo 27/01/2018The opening night of a new season at the Teatro Massimo is always an event for the entire city of...
Reviewer's Rating Un Ballo In Maschera Alina Bottez 23/12/2017Verdi’s opera had a tumultuous fate: Somma’s libretto after Scribe’s Gustave III was censored by the Naples authorities...