• 2003/2004. “FIDELIO”.

PRODUCTION: TEATRO DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
DIRECTED BY: ROBERT CARSEN
Breathtaking production of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s “SingSpiel”, directed by one of the most acclaimed Opera director on the Word-Wide scene, Robert Carsen.

“The Opera was staged in an imaginary concentration camp, and Mr. Carsen used also “sensory stimulations” to render that in the most effective way for the audience. The stage was dirty and dusty for real, crystallized in a colour between grey and dark blue. And, to depict the uncomfortable conditions of the prisoners… I was one of them, of course… Well, our costumes were real uniforms wore by the prisoners of the infamous “LaCayenne” Penitentiary in French Guiana… A one-of-a-kind experience and a big hit too!”

• 1999/2000. “AIDA”.

PRODUCTION: TEATRO DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
DIRECTED BY: LORENZO MARIANI

First reprise of Verdi’s “AIDA”, after a long hiatus from Italian Opera Theatres, and homage to the 1963 Historical Edition staged at TEATRO LA SCALA in Milan by Franco Zeffirelli.

 • 1999/2000. “LOHENGRIN”.

PRODUCTION: TEATRO DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
DIRECTED BY: LUCA RONCONI

Impressive co-production staged by MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO in collaboration with MADRID’S TEATRO REAL.

Seven 60-Feet-Tall Mobile Obelisks (with people on the top), labyrinths of floating passageways, clockwork mechanisms used for real-time stage metamorphosis, CGI and Special Visual Effects were all at the service of this astonishing instalment of Richard Wagner’s “prequel” to “The Ring of the Nibelung”.

• 1998/1999. “WOZZECK”.

PRODUCTION: TEATRO DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
DIRECTED BY: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN

Debut of USA Movie Director William Friedkin (“The Exorcist”, “Sorcerer”, “Cruising”, “To Live and Die in L. A.”) as Opera Director, with Maestro ZUBIN METHA conducting Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

“Wozzeck” is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg and based on the drama “Woyzeck”, left incomplete by the German playwright Georg Büchner at his death.

• 1997/1998. “TURANDOT”.

PRODUCTION: TEATRO DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
DIRECTED BY: ZHANG YIMOU

From Giacomo Puccini, one of the most acclaimed productions ever realized by MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO, fuelled by the musical direction of Maestro Zubin Metha and with a lavish stage direction by Chinese Movie Director Zhang Yimou (“Red Lanterns”, “Hero”, “House of Flying Daggers”, “Curse of the Golden Flower”).

 “Turandot” was firstly staged in Florence and then later at the Forbidden City (Beijing).