It obviously wasn’t the first time I set foot in one of Italy’s most beautiful theaters in Parma, but it was the very first time I came for the Verdi…
LOHENGRIN |Â Deutsche Oper Berlin
We had already had the chance to see this production back in April. The impressions were overwhelmingly positive: the emotion was tangible, the vocal ensemble was magnificent, from the soloists…
OTELLO | Teatro Real de Madrid
I didn’t have to wait long to see my favorite opera of the 25/26 season. Barely after the curtain fell in London, I was already on a plane heading 2h30…
LES VĂŠPRES SICILIENNES | Royal Opera House
What’s funny, as the years go by, is that the longer summer feels, the more the wait for the new opera season feels like an eternity! Yes, sure, I had…
NORMA |Â BĂĽhnen Bern
I thought I was just coming to a “simple” back-to-season concert version of Norma for a single performance at the Bern Opera… but what I actually witnessed on August 31…
LA CAMBIALE DI MATRIMONIO | Rossini Opera Festival
His first opera to be performed on stage, “La cambiale di matrimonio” was composed by Rossini when he was just 18, having been hired as an opera composer for the…
L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI | Rossini Opera Festival
The second new production of the Rossini Opera Festival was l’Italiana in Algeri, one of the Pesaro composer’s most performed works and a masterpiece of the genre “opera buffa. Composed…
ZELMIRA | Rossini Opera Festival
“ciò che mi conforta è la certezza di aver Scritto bene, del resto poco mi curo” “What comforts me is the certainty of having written well, I don’t care about…
NORMA | Gstaad Menuhin Festival
So… this was my 5th year in a row at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, after highlights like I Puritani and a magical Tosca two years ago. This time, it was…