4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Aida Alessandro Zummo 17/08/2022 Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience as a director and, apart from so...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Káťa Kabanová Salzburg Festival 2022 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2022 “So quiet, so beautiful around here… and I must die”, these are the last words that Káťa pronounces before throwing herself into the river Volga. She...
3.0★ ★ ★ Die Zauberflöte Salzburger Festspiele 2022 Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022 For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte collaborating with...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Il Barbiere di Siviglia Salzburger Festspiele Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022 Every exceptional opera performance has at least one scene that continues to resonate in one’s mind for hours and occasionally days after the experien...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Alessandro Zummo 13/08/2021 The acclaimed mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who has been the artistic director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival since 2012, has presented this year...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Così fan tutte Alessandro Zummo 13/08/2021 The current production of Così fan Tutte at the 2020 Salzburg festival was already staged last year with some cuts to the original score in order to c...
Médée Salzburg Festival 2019 Alessandro Zummo 15/08/2019 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...
Alcina Salzburg Festival 2019 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2019 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...
Don Giovanni Irina Antesberger [Age: 16] 18/12/2017 It is always exciting to learn what directors may see in what some call “the opera of operas”. Staging Mozart`s “Don Giovanni” is a huge challenge...
Lucrezia Borgia Becca Kaplan 03/09/2017 Coming off of the theatrical extravaganza of King Lear from the same festival, in which every conceivable conceit, set piece, and lighting trick ...
