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Teatro La Fenice 2020-21 Review: ‘Prima La Musica E Poi Le Parole’ & ‘Der Schauspieldirektor’

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(Photo: Michele Crosera) Contrary to popular rumor, it is very unlikely that Salieri and Mozart were on acrimonious terms, let alone enemies. As court composer to Emperor Joseph II, Salieri dominated Viennese musical society which he used to secure positions for Italian artists, which no doubt irritated the ambitious Mozart, but there is no evidence for any animosity between the {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2025-2026 Review: Turandot

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(Photo Credit: Brescia/Amisano) In 2026 Teatro alla Scala once again presents “Turandot.” This is one of the house’s emblematic titles, this time reviving the production by Davide Livermore, originally conceived in 2024 to mark the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death. This revival gains additional significance as it joins the celebrations of the hundredth anniversary of the opera’s world premiere in 1926. {…}
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Opera is a Place: Understanding Why Younger Audiences Come to the Opera House

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(Photo Credit: Octavio Alonso Maya Castro) Visiting the Palacio de Bellas Artes made me fall in love with opera again. The open plaza welcomed groups of young people walking, laughing, and congregating. The bronze-tiled dome gleamed like a radiant sunset, hugging the luminous marble archway. Stepping inside, the grand foyer projected an entirely different regal stature. Whereas the exterior of {…}
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Philharmonia Orchestra to Launch ‘Virtual Orchestra: William Tell’

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[Pictures Copyrighted to Beth Walsh Photography- www.bethwalsh.co.uk] The Philharmonia Orchestra will launch a new immersive virtual reality experience, “Virtual Orchestra: William Tell,” on May 27 and 28 at the Southbank Centre in London. Designed primarily for children and young people, the experience places participants inside the orchestra as it performs Rossini’s “William Tell” Overture. Users can select from percussion instruments {…}
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Teatro Comunale Di Modena 2025-26 Review: La Carnaval

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(Photo: Roland Paolo Guerzoni) Although Lully was a Florentine by birth, his entire professional career was spent in France in the employ of Louis XIV, where he rose to become the Superintendent of the King’s M usic and the leading figure in the development of French opera. In Italy, however, his theatrical works, including his operas, have never taken root and {…}
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Latvian National Opera 2025-26 Review: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci

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  On February 17, the Latvian National Opera premiered its new production of “Cavalleria rusticana” and “Pagliacci.” The evening stood as a demonstration of the highest artistic level, expressed in every dimension that only opera can so powerfully unite. Two fundamental pillars sustained the success of the enterprise: the formidable musical direction of Mārtiņš Ozoliņš and the extraordinary stage vision {…}
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Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali 2025-26 Review: Marina

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(Photo: Lorenza Daverio) How is it possible that, until five years ago, nothing was known about Italian composer Umberto Giordano’s first work? This is the question that inevitably arises upon learning about the program that prompted this article. The answer seems simple if one considers that it was Giordano himself who chose to withdraw it from public life, as it {…}
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CD Review: Prima Classic’s ‘Simon Boccanegra’

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Rarely has a single performance so cornered the discographic record of an opera as Claudio Abbado’s “Simon Boccanegra” from 1977. And my use of the possessive is, in this case, far from aleatory: Abbado lays claim to the score with an authority scarcely less than Verdi’s own—or would Hugo Shirley otherwise have spoken in superlatives so unsparingly when Gramophone revisited {…}

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