The most Italian opera in the most Italian place on earth! Giuseppe Verdi’s third opera, which revealed his genius to the entire world, is closely linked to the history of…
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO | ChorĂ©gies d’Orange
The weekend promised to be… magnificent!With three operas across two different festivals — Aix-en-Provence to start, and the ChorĂ©gies d’Orange to wrap things up on Sunday — the program featured…
DER FREISCHĂśTZ | Bregenzer Festspiele
By the end of the day, our hopes that it would take place where we had wished were fading. The stifling afternoon heat, a harbinger of meteorological unrest, suggested that…
DON GIOVANNI | Festival d’Aix en Provence
To “give of oneself”: definition — To make a personal effort or sacrifice; to invest one’s time, energy, or physical presence in helping or participating in something. There is no…
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO | Glyndebourne
What an afternoon! On this July Saturday, in its usual and ever-so-picturesque misty setting, the Glyndebourne Festival offers us a magnificent tribute to Mozart’s sublime masterpiece — a pinnacle of…
NORMA | Teatro alla Scala
Decades of waiting—yes, literal decades—had gone by without Norma being staged in the most iconic theatre of the Italian repertoire. You can imagine my reaction when, in May 2024, I…
FAUST | Théâtre National de l’OpĂ©ra-Comique
But a ghost is not a corpse (…). It is a living being. Only its body stems from the soul: it has no surplus flesh, no hunger, no thirst, no…
COSI FAN TUTTE | Opéra de Lyon
On June 18, 2025, the OpĂ©ra de Lyon offered up a refreshingly original and engaging version of Cosi fan tutte that charmed with its creativity, playfulness, and clever restraint. In Marie Eve…
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA | Opéra National Paris
On this warm Parisian evening, OpĂ©ra de Paris brought back Damiano Michieletto’s visually striking and brilliantly clever production, and it’s just as dazzling and fun as ever. The set—an imaginative…