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…
L’ELISIR D’AMORE |Â Liceu – Barcelona
Let me start with something bold: this production of L’Elisir d’Amore is without a doubt in my Top 10 operas of the entire year. And honestly, if I had to…
LUCREZIA BORGIA | Teatro de la Maestranza
I travelled to Seville almost entirely for one reason: to see Marina Rebeka in her role debut as Lucrezia Borgia. I had been excited for months—truly convinced that this role…
OTELLO | Teatro Bellini – Catania
Two weeks after my Otello in Prague, you would think the excitement would calm down… but no. I arrived in Catania as thrilled as if I were seeing Otello for…
BENJAMIN BERNHEIM | Victoria Hall – Genève
There is something uniquely special about attending a recital at Victoria Hall — the intimacy, the acoustics, the warm Geneva audience… and when the evening is led by Benjamin Bernheim,…