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OperaLombardia Announces 2026-27 Season

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OperaLombardia has announced its 2026-27 season. The season opens with Puccini’s “Turandot” starring Caterina Meldolesi, Libby Sokolowski, Baopeng Wang, Roberto Aronica, Eduardo Niave, and Songha Lee. Performance Dates: Teatro Sociale, Como: Sept. 24 & 26, 2026 Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona: Oct. 2 & 4, 2026 Teatro Fraschini, Pavia: Oct. 9 & 11, 2026 Teatro Grande, Brescia: Oct. 16 & 18, 2026 Teatro {…}
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Carmela Remigio, Sara Cortolezzis, Iván Ayón Rivas & Francesca Aspromonte Lead Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento’s 2026-27 Season

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The Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” will be directed by Chiara Muti and conducted by Ottavio Dantone. Giovanni Sala, Marie Lys, Martina Licari, Arianna Vendittelli, Paola Gardina, and Francesco Leone star. Performance Dates: Nov 27 & 29, 2026 Davide Tramontano’s “Cronaca di un Amore. Callas e Pasolini” will be {…}
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Ente Luglio Musicale Trapanese Announces Remaining 2026 Lineup

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The Ente Luglio Musicale Trapanese releases the final details of its 78th season. Here are the vocal events. The 21st Giuseppe Di Stefano International Opera Competition returns. This year, it will be dedicated to selecting the voices of “I Capuleti ei Montecchi,” with a jury presided over by soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci. Performance Dates: May 13 – 16, 2026 The {…}
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Teatro Municipale di Piacenza 2025-26 Review: Cronaca di un amore: Callas e Pasolini

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(Photo: Gianni Cravedi) One of the most renowned figures in the world of opera is Maria Callas, not only because of her career marked by dramatic highs and lows, but also due to the relentless gossip surrounding her professional, and above all personal life, as well as the many theories surrounding her death in 1977. Countless multimedia works have explored {…}
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CortinAteatro to Present ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’

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CortinAteatro is set to present Masgani’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” on August 2, 2025. The performance will be held at the Alexander Girardi Hall di Cortina and will be presented in collaboration with the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia. The opera will be directed by Bepi Morassi, and Francesco Rosa will conduct the Orchestra Regionale Filarmonia Veneta. Caterina Meldolesi will sing the {…}
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Lidia Fridman, Lucas Meachem, Fabio Sartori, Erika Grimaldi & Clementine Margaine Lead Teatro Carlo Felice’s 2025-26 Season

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The Teatro Carlo Felice has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” will open the season, starring Simone Alberghini, Gurgen Baveyan, Desirée Rancatore, Irina Dubrovskaya, Ian Koziara, David Ferri Durà, Mattia Denti, Jennifer Holloway, Monica Zanettin, Giulio Mastrototaro, Bruno Taddia, Alex Martini, and Chiara Fiorani. Constantin Trinks conducts the production by Damiano Michieletto. Performance Dates: Oct. 3-12, 2025 Marta Torbidoni, {…}
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Lidia Fridman, Carmela Remigio, Gregory Kunde, Dmitry Korchav & Claudia Pavone Lead Teatro Municipale di Piacenza’s 2025-26 Season

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The Teatro Municipale di Piacenza has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “Stiffelio” featuring Gregory Kunde, Lidia Fridman, Vladimir Stoyanov, and Riccardo Rados. Leonardo Sini conducts the production by Pier Luigi Pizzi.  Performance Dates: Dec. 19 & 21, 2025 Markus Werba leads Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with Renzo Ran, Claudia Pavone, Marco Ciaponi, Carmela Remigio, Tommaso Barea, Alberto Petricca, and Greta Doveri. Enrico Pagano conducts the production by Andrea Bernard. Performance {…}
DVD and CD Releases, News

Riccardo Chailly, Charles Castronovo & Philippe Jaroussky Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get a chance to hear songs by Enrico Caruso, a rare Mascagni opera, Verdi choruses, and Spanish songs, among others things. Here is a look at the new releases of the week. 1915: A Trip to Granada The new album features American mezzo Anna Tonna and American pianist Mac McClure taking a journey undertaken back in April of {…}
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Vicenza in Lirica 2021 Review: Betulia Liberata

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(Photo: Francesco Dalla Pozza) Vicenza in Lirica opened last season’s program with a successful performance of Vivaldi’s oratorio “Juditha Triumphans,” a story from the book of Judith contained in the Apocrypha. The city of Bethulia is surrounded by its Assyrian enemies, and its leaders are too frightened to react. Judith, therefore, takes matters into her own hands. She sneaks into {…}

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