Maestros from La Scala’s pantheon of conductors have made L’amore dei tre re (“The Love of the Three Kings”) what it is: Italo Montemezzi’s best-known opera. Tullio Serafin led the work’s premiere at the Milan house in 1913, winning the local audience’s favour, while the towering Victor de Sabata conducted a production two decades later. No pressure on Pinchas Steinberg, then, the Israeli conductor who was leading the first staging of the work in 70 years at the temple to Italian opera.
James Imam, Financial Times, October 2023
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But, fine singing aside, this was Steinberg’s night.