sentences:  Abbado conducted both new productions and revivals, among them "Un ballo in maschera" (staged by Gianfranco de Bosio, designed by Emmanuele Luzzati), "L'Italiana in Algeri" (staged and designed by Ponnelle), "Carmen" (revival of the 1978 Franco Zeffirelli-production), "Pelléas et Mélisande" (staged by Antoine Vitez and designed by Yannis Kokkos), "Il viaggio a Reims" (staged by Luca Ronconi and designed by Gae Aulenti), "Don Carlo" (staged and designed by Pier Luigi Pizzi), "Don Giovanni" (staged by Luc Bondy, with Ruggero Raimondi as the Don), "Le nozze di Figaro" (staged by Jonathan Miller).Drese initiated cycle of all the major Mozart-operas.Drese also engaged conductors who had never conducted at the State Opera before, such as Harnoncourt ("Idomeneo" in 1987, followed by "Die Zauberflöte" staged by Otto Schenk in 1988, "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" and "Così fan tutte" in 1989), Colin Davis ("Werther" staged by Pierluigi Samaritani), "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"), Seiji Ozawa ("Eugene Onegin" in 1988; a critically acclaimed production with Mirella Freni and Nicolai Ghiaurov).