Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele will tonight open the season at Teatro Massimo di Palermo: the new disco-dancing, Vegas-happy, 1970's-kitsch-heavy staging is created by Giancarlo Del Monaco; Ferruccio Furlanetto, after canceling his recital at la Scala (we had tkts, cripwes!) is well enough to unleash the MechaGodzilla-like powah of his mechavochal chords; dear Giuseppe Filianoti is Faust; Filianoti's understudy is Walter Fraccaro of Alagna_Leaves_Aida (in)fame.
This production, heavily inspired by bad oldskool American TV, invokes just two words:
Dan Tanna!
