Irina Lungu, Nicola Alaimo, Vittorio Grigolo, Arturo Chacón-Cruz & Lianna Haroutounian Lead Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège’s 2024-25 Season

The Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Giampaolo Bisanti conducting a production by Thaddeus Strassberger. Irina Lungu, Dmitry Korchak, and Simone Piazzola star. Performance Dates: Sept. 13-24, 2024 Leoš Janáček’s “Kát’a Kabanová” will star Anush Hovhannisyan, Anton Rositskiy, Nino Surguladze, Sergei Skorokhodov, Jana Kurucová, Dmitry Cheblykov, {…}

Mar 15, 2024

Teatro dell’Opera di Roma’s Caracalla Festival Announces 2024 Season

The Caracalla Festival has announced its 2024 season. The season will celebrate Puccini and will open with Puccini’s “Tosca” in a new production by Francesco Micheli. Antonino Fogliani conducts a cast that includes Carmen Giannattasio and Sonya Yoncheva in the title role, Saimir Pirgu, Vittorio Grigolo, and Arsen Soghomonyan as Cavaradossi. Claudio Sgura and Roberto Frontali complement the cast as Scarpia. {…}

Mar 8, 2024

Vittorio Grigolo to Perform in Moscow’s Zarydaye Hall

Vittorio Grigolo is set to present a recital in Moscow’s Zarydaye Hall. The recital will be held on May 25 and will feature Italian songs and arias. The evening will be the second time the tenor performs in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, the tenor performed at the White Nights Festival, only months after the invasion. The {…}

Jan 12, 2024

Sony Classical to Release Vittorio Grigòlo’s ‘Verissimo’

Sony Classical has announced that it will release “Verissimo,” a new album headlined by tenor Vittorio Grigòlo and conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi leading the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Out April 5, 2024, the album will feature music from Boito’s “Mefistofele,” Mascagni’s “Iris,” Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda,” Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur,” Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier,” Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana,” Leoncavalo’s “Pagliacci,” and numerous Puccini operas, {…}

Nov 27, 2023

Teatro alla Scala & Dubai Opera Announce Cast Change for Gala Concert

The Teatro alla Scala in Milan and Dubai Opera have announced a cast change for their “Concert for Tomorrow” on Dec 1. The two companies noted that tenor Piero Pretti will be replaced by Vittorio Grigolo, who will join Aida Garifullina in the concert. Michele Gamba conducts. This season, Grigolo is set to return to the Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper, {…}

Nov 16, 2023

Vittorio Grigolo Headlines Dubai Opera Ball

M Premiere and Mundus Gala are set to present the Dubai Opera Ball on Nov. 18, 2023 at the Dubai Opera. The gala will be headlined by tenor Vittorio Grigolo, who recently withdrew from performances of “Don Carlo” at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo due to “personal reasons.” The production was set to open Nov. 22 and ran through Nov. 26, {…}

Aug 15, 2023

Arte Releases Sonya Yoncheva & Vittorio Grigolo’s ‘Tosca’ Recording from Arena di Verona

Arte is streaming a recording of Puccini’s “Tosca” from the Arena di Verona. The recording stars Sonya Yoncheva as Floria Tosca and Vittorio Gridolo as Cavaradossi. Roman Burdenko stars as the Barone Scarpia with Carlo Bosi as Spoleta and Giulio Mastrototaro as Il sagrestano. Francesco Ivan Ciampa conducts the productions by Hugo de Ana while Tiziano Mancini directs for the screen. The {…}

Jun 9, 2023

Lisette Oropesa, Gregory Kunde, Anna Pirozzi & Karita Mattila Lead Teatro dell’Opera di Roma’s 2023-24 Season

The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced its 2023-24 season. The season opens with Botio’s “Mefistofele” with Simon Stone directing. Michele Mariotti conducts a cast that includes John Relyea, Maria Agresta, and Joshua Guerrero. Performance Dates: Nov. 27-Dec. 5, 2023 Michele Mariotti conducts Puccini’s “Tosca” with Anna Pirozzi, Vittorio Grigolo, and Erwin Schrott. Performance Dates: Dec.9-14, 2023 Damiano Michieletto directs Mozart’s “Die {…}

Apr 10, 2023

Teatro alla Scala 2022-23 Review: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

This review is for the performance on March 28, 2023. Roland Barthes once wrote an essay about “the Death of the Author;” David Livermore’s staging of Jacques Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” takes that seriously. Hoffmann is shot dead in the first scene. The author dead, does the opera survive? One of the biggest challenges for a staging “Hoffmann” is how {…}

Dec 30, 2022

Gran Teatre del Liceu Announces Cast Change for ‘Tosca’

The Gran Teatre del Liceu has announced a cast change for Puccini’s “Tosca.” The company said that Vittorio Grigolo will sing the role of Cavaradossi, replacing Joseph Calleja, who has laryngitis. Grigolo recently performed the role of Cavaradossi in Zurich and also sang productions of “La Bohème” in Vienna and “Il Trovatore” at the Liceu. He is set to perform {…}

Dec 20, 2022

Opernhaus Zürich Announces Cast Change for ‘Tosca’

Opernhaus Zürich has announced a cast change for its performance of “Tosca” on Dec. 20. The company announced that Vittorio Grigolo will sing the role of Cavaradossi, replacing Jonas Kaufmann who is ill. Kaufmann also took to social media and said, “as you know, viruses and bacteria are currently running hand in hand everywhere. Now another infection has struck me. {…}

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