Mist opportunity Mist opportunity

Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala, starring Rosa Feola, proves as airless as this summer’s heatwaves.

Statue of limitations

What do opera composers do on vacation? If the researches behind this performance at the Rossini in Wildbad Festival are correct, they gather their nearest and dearest and dash them off a quickie opera for performance en famille. That, in any case, is what Giovanni Pacini did during down-time between presenting seventy-odd operas to the…