Luca Tittoto reviews
Feo: San Francesco di Sales
Monica Piccinini, Roberta Mameli, Delphine Galou, Luca Tittoto; Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra/Fabio Biondi (Glossa)
Donizetti: Enrico di Borgogna
Anna Bonitatibus, Francesco Castoro et al, Donizetti Opera Choir; Academia Montis Regalis/Alessandro De Marchi; Dir. Silvia Paoli (Bergamo, 2018) (Dynamic DVD)
Puccini: La bohème
Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car, Simona Mihai et al; Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/Antonio Pappano; dir. Richard Jones (Opus Arte, DVD)
Andrea Marcon conducts Handel's Parnasso in festa
Not an opera, but rather a festa teatrale or serenata, Parnasso in festa, per gli sponsali di Teti e Peleo (Festivities on Parnassus in Honour of the Nuptials of Thetis and Peleus) was written to celebrate the wedding of George II’s daughter Princess Anne to the Dutch Prince William IV. It was initially performed at the Haymarket Theatre the night before their wedding on March 13 1734.