State of siege
An amateurish production of Le siège de Corinthe, combined with heavy-handed conducting, at Pesaro weakens the defenses of one of Rossini‘s most topical operas.
Italy
L’elisir d’amore
Gilda Fiume and Valerio Borgioni lead a live broadcast from Venice
Streamed August 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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La scala di seta
Iurii Samoilov, Paolo Bordogna, and Hasmik Torosyan lead a live performance from Pesaro
Streamed August 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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L’occasione fa il ladro
Alessandro Bonato leads a live broadcast from Pesaro featuring Dave Monaco
Streamed August 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Le siège de Corinthe
Carlo Rizzi conducts Adrian Sâmpetrean, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, and Matteo Roma in a live opening night broadcast from Pesaro
Streamed August 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Zubin Mehta is a great opera conductor
Zubin Mehta was a major part of musical life when I moved to Southern California in 1969, having started his tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
By Mister Snow
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Lorenzo Molajoli was a great opera conductor
Lorenzo Molajoli is a mysterious figure.
Riccardo Muti is a great opera conductor
I trust, fellow Parterre readers, that we can all agree that Riccardo Muti is a great opera conductor.
Turkish delight on a moonlit night
While it may not be top-tier Rossini, Teatro Nuovo’s mounting of Il turco in Italia is still good summer fun.
Mist opportunity
Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala, starring Rosa Feola, proves as airless as this summer’s heatwaves.
Aix tremendae, salva me
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence confronts the living and the dead — and its own future — through audacious productions and an intimate world premiere.
Giuseppe Patanè was a great opera conductor
I think Patanè did far more than just hold it together: he did full honor to Verdi.
By Peter Russell
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Aegean in place
Greek National Opera’s Medea in the ancient theater at Epidaurus is an intermittently rewarding exercise in nostalgia.
Giannina Arangi-Lombardi never made it to the Met
Giannina Arangi-Lombardi never sang at the Met.
Lucia di Lammermoor
Rosa Feola goes mad in a live broadcast from Milan
Streamed June 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Giulio Cesare
Raffaele Pe sings the title role opposite the Cleopatra of Mariangela Sicilia in a live broadcast from Florence
Streamed June 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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La traviata
Ermonela Jaho, Dmitry Korchak, and Amartuvshin Enkhbat star in a live broadcast from Rome
Streamed June 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Adriana Lecouvreur
A live broadcast from the Teatro San Carlo in Naples starring Aleksandra Kurzak, Brian Jagde, and Elīna Garanča.
Streamed June 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Robust possibilities
After success at the Met as Turandot and before a historic Medea, soprano Anna Pirozzi talks to Harry Rose about her voice, her repertoire, and where her “second explosion of career” is taking her.
Hina Spani should have made it to the Met
A full century after her heyday, Argentine soprano Hina Spani still moves us thanks to her vivid recordings and the savants who have cherished and shared them.
By Peter Russell
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La Damnation de Faust
Marianne Crebassa, Julien Dran, and John Relyea star in a live broadcast of Berlioz's opera from Rome.
Streamed June 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Napoli Milionaria
Nino Rota's opera in a live broadcast from Bologna.
Streamed June 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Carmen
La Scala's incoming Music Director Myung-Whun Chung leads Clémentine Margaine and Vittorio Grigolo in a live broadcast from Milan
Streamed June 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Carmen
Annalisa Stroppa leads a live performance from the Teatro La Fenice
Streamed May 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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