Rupert Christiansen

The wow factor

‘Nothing succeeds like excess,’ quipped Oscar Wilde, and Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Aida at La Scala, Milan in 2006 bears him out: for sheer jaw-dropping, applause- garnering theatrical bling, I have never seen anything like it and I doubt I ever will.

  • Franco Zeffirelli: Complete Works

    edited by Caterina Napoleone

    Thames & Hudson, pp. 512

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