Last Sunday, January 25, 2026, I attended a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth at the Teatro Coccia in Novara, and it was my very first time in this theatre. I…
LA CENERENTOLA | Teatro Regio – Torino
My last Cenerentola was so long ago that the website you’re reading this review on didn’t even exist yet, and it was in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées during…
IL TROVATORE | Teatro Carlo Felice – Genova
Attending a final performance is something I increasingly enjoy and am beginning to prefer to opening nights. Sure, opening nights are nice for the glitz, glamour, and champagne, but you…
LA BOHEME | Teatro Dell’Opera di Roma
There are not many operas left today that truly make me cry.Not because they are less powerful, but because I see a lot of opera, I consume a lot of…
GSTAAD NEW YEAR MUSIC FESTIVAL
Quel plaisir… Hope, Eternity, Talent, and Sublime. These are the four words that define the four evenings I spent in the Swiss mountains for the Gstaad New Year Music Festival….
STIFFELIO | Teatro di Piacenza
For me, coming to Piacenza every year to see my very last opera of the season is always more than a joy — it is a deeply personal and emotional…
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA | Teatro Comunale di Bologna
After missing a performance of La Bohème due to a car accident between Parma and Bologna, I absolutely had to make it up to myself and return to this city…
ERNANI | Teatro Filarmonico di Verona
I have to say it straight away: I was genuinely happy that evening. Not only because I was about to hear Ernani — an opera that is sadly not staged…
NORMA | La Monnaie de Munt
For my last European weekend trip by plane, my heart was set on Norma in Brussels. After Milan, Gstaad, and Bern, I wanted to revisit Bellini’s masterpiece, especially with everything…