L’elisir d’amore (‘The Elixir of Love’) Rivka Jacobson 15/09/2019 La Scala’s audience will not tolerate mediocracy from their leading singers nor from their orchestra. They love their operas and expect from their ens...
La Bohème Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 23/07/2019 Staging an opera that is set in Paris during a cold winter around 1830 at an Italian open-air festival in midsummer is definitely not an easy task. An...
La favorite Alessandro Zummo 28/02/2019 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 ...
La Bohème Alessandro Zummo 22/12/2018 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,...
Rigoletto Alessandro Zummo 19/10/2018 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...
Orlando Furioso Alina Bottez 23/04/2018 The titular character of Ariosto’s poem is the Roland of the French and English mediaeval romances. The Italian poet’s sixteenth century epic unfolds ...
Guillaume Tell Alessandro Zummo 27/01/2018 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...
Un Ballo In Maschera Alina Bottez 23/12/2017 Verdi’s opera had a tumultuous fate: Somma’s libretto after Scribe’s Gustave III was censored by the Naples authorities...
Simon Boccanegra Rivka Jacobson 19/10/2017 It is a privilege to have the opportunity to experience Italian opera in a traditional setting and hear Simon Bocaneggra twice in a week with different cast
Turandot Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 25/07/2017 All’alba vincero! Vincero! Vincero! After these last words of Puccinis world-famous aria “Nessun Dorma” you could hear the sound of 3000 people on their feet ...
