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...
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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...
BENJAMIN BERNHEIM | Victoria Hall – Genève
There is something uniquely special about attending a recital at Victoria Hall — the intimacy, the acoustics, the warm Geneva...
REQUIEM VERDI | Victoria Hall – Geneva
There are some works in the classical world that feel less like concerts and more like… events. Moments you prepare...
AIDA | Opera de Monte-Carlo
I had so many reasons to come to Monte Carlo on Sunday, November 16—truly a lot of reasons. And the...
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO | Opernhaus Zürich
I have about 10,000 things to say about this production — so I hope you love Verdi and stories, because...
OTELLO | The State Opera – Prague
Yes… my friends, yes — another Otello! Yet another Otello!After Parma, Madrid, and Strasbourg — while waiting for Catania and...
LA TRAVIATA | The State Opera – Prague
For the second time in a year, I had the chance to see this magnificent production of La Traviata in...
LUDOVIC TEZIER | Opera de Lyon
You know those moments when you realize just minutes before a concert starts that what you’re about to hear is...
TOSCA | Opernhaus Zürich
I still remember when I saw the new program of the Opernhaus Zürich last May, and when I saw that...
RIGOLETTO | Teatro Alla Scala
How do you celebrate the birthday of the greatest maestro of all time — on his actual birthday?Well, the answer...
MACBETH | Teatro Verdi Busseto
If you know my love for Giuseppe Verdi, you already know that what follows will be nothing but praise. So...
OTELLO | Teatro Regio Parma
It obviously wasn’t the first time I set foot in one of Italy’s most beautiful theaters in Parma, but it...
