Christof Loy cannot quite bring Verdi’s ungainly drama together but Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko and Antonio Pappano force their operatic flair to the fore
Loy, however, perhaps tries to do too much. He opens with an awkward dumbshow, in which the Calatrava family turns in on itself psychologically after the death of Leonora and Carlo’s younger brother.
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