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Articles by Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito
Lorenzo Fiorito
Lorenzo Fiorito PhD holds degrees in Modern Languages and Literatures and in the Humanities. He is a linguist, a lecturer, and head of the International Area at Online University Pegaso, Naples, Italy. He is a reviewer of poetry, a music lover, and an opera buff.

Die Walküre in Naples: the age of gods is over

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 22 April 2023
Director Federico Tiezzi's production offered an intimate interpretation of the second opera in the Ring cycle.
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Li zite 'ngalera at La Scala: exciting galley trip of the newlyweds

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 07 April 2023
The singer-actors of this lively Neapolitan opera are entangled in a farcical plot in the Teatro alla Scala's revival of the genre.
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Alexander Malofeev impresses with Rachmaninov and more in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 16 February 2023
An all-Russian programme from Alexander Malofeev and Dan Ettinger, held at the Teatro Politeama in Naples as the San Carlo is temporarily closed for refurbishment.
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Samson et Dalila catches fire at the Teatro di San Carlo

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 01 October 2022
Argentinian film director Damián Szifron's production is lauded in Naples, as are star soloists Anita Rachvelishvili and Brian Jagde.
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Bellini's last monument to bel canto: I puritani in concert in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 12 September 2022
Appearing in Naples after an absence of 34 years, Bellini's opera was given in a concert performance headed by Lisette Oropesa and Xabier Anduaga.
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Cavalli's Il Xerse as farce in Martina Franca

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 28 July 2022
Leo Muscato directs an operatic rarity at the Festival Valle d'Itria, with Federico Maria Sardelli leading Orchestra Barocca Modo Antiquo.
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Jessica Pratt hits the virtuosic heights in Barbiere at the Teatro di San Carlo

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 10 July 2022
An impressive revival of Filippo Crivelli's 1998 production of Il barbiere di Siviglia, with a lively cast in Naples.
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Ai Weiwei's Turandot an enjoyable, gigantic funfair at Opera di Roma

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 29 March 2022
The controversial artist stages his first opera in Rome, with strong musical performances under dynamic Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv. 
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Kátya Kabanová flies to Rome for the first time

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 25 January 2022
Richard Jones' setting is superb in its bare minimalism, but he pays great attention to all the psychological nuances in Janáček's opera. 
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Lucia di Lammermoor spread her wings in Naples, with a few ruffled feathers

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 20 January 2022
Gianni Amelio's traditionalist staging pleased the audience, and Nadine Sierra brought vocal grace and a flawless technique to the title role.
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Tower block bohemians in Emma Dante's new staging at San Carlo

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 17 October 2021
Despite the setting in a condo, Dante’s staging is basically traditional, to the point of even respecting the original story's 1830s fashions.
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Leonardo Vinci's music revived by Franco Fagioli at Bayreuth Baroque

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 16 September 2021
The Argentinian, one of the greatest countertenors of his generation, is today's specialist in the repertoire of Neapolitan composer Leonardo Vinci. 
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Porpora's L'Angelica is a sensual, virtuosic love triangle in Martina Franca

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 03 August 2021
A masterpiece from one of the Neapolitan School's most important protagonists, this rarely heard opera is musically rewarding but confusingly staged.
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Scarlatti's Griselda receives a regal staging in Martina Franca

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 02 August 2021
A swan song of the early Baroque opera seria, Scarlatti's final opera flourishes at a festival that specialises in rarely performed works.
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Il turco in Italia in Naples: nostalgia for the good old days

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 23 March 2021
A concert performance makes our reviewer at the Teatro San Carlo pine for a return to staged opera. 
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Sondra Radvanovsky stars in first revival of Il pirata in Naples since 1834

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 08 February 2021
Antonino Fogliani conducts a concert performance of Bellini's rare bel canto opera. 
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Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix comes to her senses in Florence

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 19 January 2021
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s proposal is fully commendable, as they restored an opera rarely performed
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Regietheater reigns supreme in Calixto Bieito's Lohengrin at Staatsoper Berlin

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 15 December 2020
Dressed in white, with an origami swan in his hand, Robert Alagna's Lohengrin is less a Grail knight than an absent-minded daydreamer.
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Another starry night in Naples for Teatro San Carlo's bel canto gala

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 13 December 2020
The Gala Mozart Belcanto featured internationally renowned artists who performed a high quality virtuoso concert.
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Puccini's La rondine is back in her nest in Naples

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 19 October 2020
One of Puccini's less renowned works returns to the Teatro San Carlo after over thirty years away.
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