MACBETH | Teatro Regio Torino
Some evenings at the opera are planned weeks in advance. Others are dreamed about for months. For me, this Macbeth...
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LA GIOCONDA | Gran Teatre del Liceu
There are operas you fall in love with instantly. And then there are operas like La Gioconda. For me, Ponchielli’s...
LISETTE OROPESA | Crans-Montana
Social media often receives its fair share of criticism, but sometimes it delivers something truly special. Just a week ago,...
NORMA | Teatro Regio Parma
This was a date I had been waiting for for a long time. The main reason was Vasilisa Berzhanskaya. I...
L’ELISIR D’AMORE | The State Opera – Prague
If there is one place where I feel comfortable, at ease, and truly at home, it is the State Opera...
TURANDOT | Deutsche Oper Berlin
I hesitated for a long time before writing the lines that follow. You know Opera Diary’s primary motivation: to inspire...
TOSCA | Staatsoper Berlin
Friday the 13th may carry a reputation for bad luck, but at the Staatsoper Berlin, there was nothing unfortunate about...
L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI | Grand Théâtre de Genève
In Geneva, people usually come for the auditory experience, not necessarily the visual one, and proving I'm not one to...
MACBETH | Teatro Coccia di Novara
Last Sunday, January 25, 2026, I attended a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth at the Teatro Coccia in Novara, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
STIFFELIO | Teatro di Piacenza
For me, coming to Piacenza every year to see my very last opera of the season is always more than...
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...
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...
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...
L’ELISIR D’AMORE | Liceu – Barcelona
Let me start with something bold: this production of L’Elisir d’Amore is without a doubt in my Top 10 operas...
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....
OTELLO | Teatro Bellini – Catania
Two weeks after my Otello in Prague, you would think the excitement would calm down… but no. I arrived in...
