During November and December, we also toured around cities and enjoyed superb operas: Handel's Giulio Cesare at Milan's Scala, Grétry's Richard Cœur de Lion (Richard Lionheart didn't speak English, as you all know, cf. Assassin Creeds) and Offenbach's La Périchole at Versailles' Opéra Royal, Mozart's Cosi fan tutte at Paris' Théâtre des Champs…
We stayed in Bergamo and Venice too, but there was no concert to attend at the Fenice nor in the two opera houses of Donizzeti's home town.
The best music was Handel and Grétry's, with great staging, casting, and musical direction.
Offenbach suffered from a dismal staging and average voices - it would have been booed at the Scala, and Mozart was merely average across the board.During November and December, we also toured around cities and enjoyed superb operas: Handel's Giulio Cesare at Milan's Scala, Grétry's Richard Cœur de Lion (Richard Lionheart didn't speak English, as you all know, cf. Assassin Creeds) and Offenbach's La Périchole at Versailles' Opéra Royal, Mozart's Cosi fan tutte at Paris' Théâtre des Champs…
We stayed in Bergamo and Venice too, but there was no concert to attend at the Fenice nor in the two opera houses of Donizzeti's home town.