The Donizetti Theatre Foundation has announced the cast for its upcoming performances of “Raffa in the Sky.” The cast will be led by Chiara Dello Iacovo who sings the title role alongside Carmela Remigio, Gaia Petrone, Dave Monaco, Haris Andrianos, and Roberto Lorenzi. Carlo Boccadoro will conduct the production by Francesco Micheli. “Raffa in the Sky” is an opera inspired by {…}
The Donizetti Opera Festival has announced the titles for the 2023 season. The festival noted that it will present its annual “LUOpeRave” which will use Donizetti’s music in electronic form. The festival will present “Il diluvio universal” with Music Director Riccardo Frizza conducting the rarely performed work. The cast will include Nahuel Di Pierro, Nicolò Donini, Davide Zaccherini, Eduardo Martínez, Sabrina Gárdez, {…}
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced its 2023 season. The Anteprima to the season will be “Mirandolina” by Bohuslav Martinů. Oksana Lyniv conducts the production by Gianmaria Aliverta. Performance Dates: Jan 14 & 15, 2023 The season opens with Oksana Lyniv conducting Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer“ in a new production by Paul Curran. The opera will star Peter Rose, {…}
On April 19, the Teatro dell Opera di Roma will premiere a new production of Bellini’s “Il Puritani.” The production, which will be broadcast on Rai Radio3, will be conducted by Roberto Abbado and will be directed by Andrea De Rosa. The new production will see set design by Nicolas Bovey, costumes by Mariano Tufano, and lighting by Pasquale Mari. The {…}
(Credit: © Gregor Hohenberg / Sony Classical/Michael Cooper/Dario Acosta) Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia has announced its 2021-22 season featuring concert performances with some of the greatest stars in the world. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on vocal performances only. Concerts Jakub Hrůša conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Wiebke Lehmkuhl. Performance {…}
The Donizetti Opera Festival has announced the 2021 season. The season opens with “C’erano una volta due bergamaschi” an operashow led Alex Esposito and Artisti della Bottega Donizetti. Michele D’Elia performs at piano. Performance Date: Nov. 18, 2021 Riccardo Frizza conducts a new production of “L’Elisir d’Amore” directed by Frederic Wake-Walker. The critical edition stars Caterina Sala, Javier Camarena, Florian {…}
The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced its upcoming concert “Il suono della bellezza.” The new concert, which is currently filming, will be a collaboration between the opera company and la Galleria Borghese. The concert will celebrate the dialogue between music and art. Daniele Gatti will conduct that program, which will be a musical trip starting with Händel and Vivaldi followed {…}
(Credit: Alessandro Moggi/Shervin Lainez) The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma is set to present Bellini’s “I Puritani” as part of the company’s Teatro Digitale series. The opera, which has not been presented at the theater since 1990, will be performed in a concert version starring Jessica Pratt and Lawrence Brownlee on Jan. 23. The performance will be conducted by Roberto Abbado {…}
(Credits: Opera Online website / Paul Foster-Williams / Gerard Collett) The Grange Festival has announced its 2021 edition which will feature several opera productions headline by opera’s greatest stars. Here is the breakdown of what’s in store for 2021. Britten’s operatic masterpiece “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will open the festival. The opera will feature Alexander Chance in the role of {…}
This week, audiences can experience world premiere recordings, a debut album, and a number of rising stars. Here are this week’s must-streamed releases. L’Ange de Nisida Dynamic releases the world premiere DVD of the first-ever staging of the reconstructed “L’Ange de Nisida.” The work, which was long-presumed-lost semiserious opera, was directed by Francesco Micheli and starred Lidia Fridman, Konu Kim, {…}
Last year Opera Rara, in co-production with the Royal Opera House, presented the world premiere of Donizetti’s “L’Ange de Nisida,” a work that was written in 1839 for the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris. However, when the theatre went bankrupt, the opera was left unperformed and Donizetti used the music that was written for “La Favorite,” one of his {…}
