Juan Diego Flórez blazed onto the stage with brilliant bel canto singing in Matilde di Shabran in Pesaro in 1996, then shot to worldwide stardom. Now Flórez’s stunning performance and a new Pesaro staging with period costume comes to The Royal Opera, complemented by a galaxy of star singers under the baton of Carlo Rizzi. The music has all the classic exuberance of early Rossini, written in 1821, yet until recently an all-but-forgotten masterpiece.

The plot is melodramatic with its tongue firmly and deliberately in its cheek, and the sheer virtuosity of the vocal writing runs throughout the beautiful contrasts of solos and ensembles.

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