Riccardo Zanellato

With its lively dances, ghost scenes and touching arias, Hamlet was Ambroise Thomas’s single great…

Politics. Religion. Nabucco is Verdi's retelling of the Old Testament story of King Nebuchadnezzar…

Princess Aida has been kidnapped: a valuable prize in a war between Egypt and Ethiopia. The ambitio…

In a city gripped by religious fanaticism, a Jewish goldsmith and his daughter face the perils of b…

The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy b…

The recording took place in Teatro Farnese di Parma, a kind of "mini-Verona" stage, but under roof.…

This thought-provoking, modern-day interpretation of Rossini's 'Mosè in Egitto' sets the scene for…

I Puritani by Bellini was staged by Francisco Negrín at Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam in 2009, wit…

A requiem inspired by the death, on May 22, 1873, of the Italian poet and writer Alessandro Manzoni…

‘Nabucco’, or ‘Nebuchadnezzar’ (Italian: Nabucco), is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by…

A tragedy through and through, then: intense, deep and profoundly romantic. Anna Bolena is a very s…

Wolf-Ferrari’s comic opera La vedova scaltra (The Cunning Widow), is among the works he based on pl…