Puccini – Tosca Floria Tosca – Carmen GiannattasioMario Cavaradossi – Saimir PirguIl barone Scarpia – Roberto FrontaliCesare Angelotti – Vladimir SazdovskiIl sagrestano – Domenico ColaianniSciarrone – Maurizio CascianelliSpoletta – Saverio FioreUn carciere – Alessandro FabbriUn pastore – Francesco Cicciarello Scuola di Canto Corale del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Coro del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Orchestra ..read more

Händel – Ariodante Ariodante – Cecilia Molinari Polinesso – Teresa Iervolino Ginevra – Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli Dalinda – Theodora Raftis Lurcanio – Manuel Amati Re di Scozia – Biagio Pizzuti Odoardo – Manuel Caputo Orchestra Barocca Modo Antiquo / Federico Maria Sardelli. Stage director – Torsten Fischer. Festival dalle Valle d’Itria, Teatro Verdi, Martina Franca.  Monday, July 22nd, 2024. For this, my second evening at this fiftieth edition of the Festival dale Valle d’Itria, it was time for some baroque.  More specifically, Händel’s Ariodante in this new festival staging by Tor ..read more

Bellini – Norma Norma – Jacquelyn Wagner Adalgisa – Valentina Farcas Pollione – Airam Hernández Oroveso – Goran Jurić Clotilde – Sugiyama Saori Flavio – Zachary McCulloch Coro del Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Banda Musicale della Città di Martina Franca “Armonie d’Itria”, Orchestra del Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari / Fabio Luisi. Stage director – Nicola Raab. Festival della Valle d’Itria, Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca, Italy.  Sunday, July 21st, 2024. This visit to the beautiful hilltop town of Martina Franca marked my first to its Festival della Valle d’Itria, this year celebrating its fift ..read more

Puccini – Madama Butterfly Cio-cio-san – Ailyn Pérez BF Pinkerton – Charles Castronovo Suzuki – Nino Surguladze Sharpless – Gerardo Bullón Goro – Moisés Marin Lo zio Bonzo – Roman Chabaranok Il Principe Yamadori – Toni Marsol Kate Pinkerton – Marta Fontanals-Simmons Lo zio Yakusidé – Andrés Mundo Il commissario imperial – Xavier Casademont Coro Titular del Teatro Real, Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real / Nicola Luisotti.Stage directors – Damiano Michieletto. Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain.  Tuesday, July 16th, 2024. To end its 2023 – 24 season, the Teatro Real chose to mount Damiano Michielett ..read more

Wagner – Das Rheingold Wotan – Thomas Johannes Meyer Loge – Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacker Alberich – Claudio Otelli Fricka – Atala Schöck Erda – Bernadett Fodor Mime – Cornel Frey Fasolt – Sorin Coliban Fafner – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Donner – Liviu Holender Froh – Paolo Antognetti Freia – Sonija Šarić Woglinde – Yulia Tkachenko Wellgunde – Marina Ogii Flosshilde – Egle Wyss Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Oksana Lyniv. Concert performance. Teatro Comunale di Bologna – Auditorium Manzoni, Bologna, Italy.  Thursday, June 13th, 2024. And so, another adventure begins.  Ju ..read more

Verdi – Requiem Soprano – Susanne Bernhard Mezzo-Soprano – Marie-Nicole Lemieux Tenor – Liparit Avetisyan Bass – Giorgi Manoshvili Chor der Oper Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln / Michele Mariotti. Concert performance. Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany.  Sunday, June 2nd, 2024. This morning’s performance of the Verdi Requiem, was the first in a series of three that the Oper Köln forces will perform alongside the WDR Rundfunkchor over the next few days.  The house had originally scheduled Eleonora Buratto to sing the soprano part, but she naturally withdrew after taking o ..read more

Puccini – Suor Angelica Suor Angelica – Monica Zanettin La Zia Principessa – Silvia Beltrami La maestra delle novizie / La suora infermiera – Dilan Şaka Suor Genovieffa / La seconda cercatrice / La seconda conversa – Greta Doveri Suor Osmina / Suor Dolcina / Una novizia – Zhou Fan La prima cercatrice / La prima conversa – Laura Lolita Perešivana La badessa / La suora zelatrice – Elena Caccamo Coro di Voci Bianche di Milano, Coro Sinfonico di Milano, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano / Vincenzo Milletarì. Concert performance. Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo, Milan, Italy.  Friday, May ..read more

Wagner – Tristan und Isolde Tristan – Michael Weinius König Marke – Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev Isolde – Nina Stemme Kurwenal – Andrei Bondarenko Melot – Milijenko Turk Brangäne – Violeta Urmana Ein Hirt – Andrea Schifaudo Ein Steuermann – Arturo Espinosa Stimme eines jungen Seemanns – Andrea Schifaudo Coro del Teatro Massimo, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo / Omer Meir Wellber. Stage director – Daniele Menghini. Teatro Massimo, Palermo, Italy.  Wednesday, May 29th, 2024. There are evenings that write the history of a theatre.  Tonight, at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo was one of them.&n ..read more

Mozart – Don Giovanni Don Giovanni – Nahuel Di Pierro Donna Anna – Ruth Iniesta Donna Elvira – Karen Gardeazabal Don Ottavio – René Barbera Leporello – Davide Giangregorio Masetto – Nicolò DoniniZerlina – Eleonora Bellocci Commendatore – Abramo Rosalen Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Martijn Dendievel. Stage director – Alessandro Talevi. Teatro Comunale di Bologna – Comunale Nouveau, Bologna, Italy.  Tuesday, May 28th, 2024. This new production of Don Giovanni is the latest collaboration between conductor Martijn Dendievel and stage director ..read more

Wagner – Götterdämmerung Siegfried – Daniel Brenna Gunther – Tuomas Pursio Alberich – Jukka Rasilainen Hagen – Rúni Brattaberg Brünnhilde – Johanna Rusanen Gutrune – Reeta Haavisto Waltraute – Tuija Knihtilä Erste Norn – Maiju Vaahtoluoto Zweite Norn – Jenny Carlstedt Dritte Norn – Sonja Herranen Woglinde – Marjukka Tepponen Wellgunde – Mari Palo Flosshilde – Jeni Packalen Finlands nationaloperas kör, Suomen kansallisoopperan orkesteri / Hannu Lintu. Stage director – Anna Kelo. Suomen kansallisooppera ja -baletti – Finlands nationalopera och -balett, Helsinki, Finland.  Saturday, May 25th ..read more