The opening of the new season at Covent Garden has been an unusually quiet affair this year. Whilst never indulging in the black-tie galas or nationalistic fanfares of La Scala and the Met, the autumn period typically offers visitors a sprinkling of new productions as well as some fine revivals and the odd concert-performance. This year, by contrast, old productions predominated: Così Fan Tutte, Rigoletto, Don Pasquale and Roméo et Juliette, the first of which was staged as recently as June. With Antonio Pappano and much of the Royal Opera House team on tour in Japan, the only new show put on this autumn was Niobe, Regina di Thebe, a recently-discovered opera by Steffani which whilst intriguing, is hardly standard Covent-Garden fare; the team involved were almost entirely new to the house. Judging by the three revivals I managed to…
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