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News, Season Announcement

Roberto Alagna, Lidia Fridman, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Chiara Isotton & John Osborn Lead Teatro Regio di Torino’s 2025-26 Season

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The Teatro Regio di Torino has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Zandonai’s “Francesca da Rimini,” which will star Barno Ismatullaeva, Ekaterina Sannikova, Roberto Alagna, Marcelo Puente, George Gagnidze, and Angelo Veccia. Andrea Battistoni conducts and Andrea Bernard directs. Performance Dates: Oct. 10-23, 2025 Gianluca Capuano conducts Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail“ with a cast that includes {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Soprano Chiara Isotton on Her Debut at the Royal Opera House & Performing the Role of Tosca

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(Photo: Michele Monasta) Italian Soprano Chiara Isotton is a graduate of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, and is a member of the La Scala Academy, Milan. She won several important national and international competitions, including being among the winners of the “European Community” Competition for Young Opera Singers by the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto in 2013 where she {…}

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Marigona Qerkezi, Rame Lahaj, Raffaele Pe & Chiara Isotton Lead Teatro Petruzzelli’s 2025 Season

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The Fondazione Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari has announced its 2025 season. Here is a look at the operas and concerts. Opera Verdi’s “Il Corasaro” is set to open the season with Rame Lahaj and Zizhao Guo sharing the lead role. They will be joined by Guanqun Yu, Benedetta Torre, Vladimir Stoyanov, Luca Galli, Vanessa Goikoetxea, and Carmen Lopez. Stefano Montanari conducts the {…}

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Chiara Isotton & Yusif Eyvazov Lead Arena di Verona’s Puccini Concert

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The Orchestra of the Arena di Verona has announced a concert in Germany on Oct. 15, 2024. The concert entitled “Puccini in Opera” will be held in Frankfurt’s Alte Oper Frankfurt and will be conducted by Francesco Ivan Ciampa. Chiara Isotton and Yusif Eyavzov will perform selections from many of Puccini’s great works including “La Boheme,” “Suor Angelica,” “Le Villi,” {…}

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Eleonora Buratto, Jonathan Tetelman, Chiara Isotton & Liv Redpath Lead Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia’s 2024-25 Season

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The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia has announced its 2024-25 season. Concerts  The season opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” starring Jonathan Tetelman, Eleonora Buratto, and Ludovic Tézier. Daniel Harding conducts. Performance Dates: Oct. 21-26, 2024 Semyon Bychkov conducts Bach’s “Mass in B Minor” with soloists Miriam Kutrowatz, Catriona Morison, Benjamin Bruns, and Christian Immler. Performance Dates: Nov. 14-16, 2024 Dalia Stasevska {…}

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Jose Cura, Chiara Isotton, Klára Kolonits, Ildikó Komlósi & Yusif Eyvazov Lead Hungarian State Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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The Hungarian State Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres Gergely Vajda conducts John Adams’ “Nixon in China” with Rita Rácz, Klára Kolonits, Zoltán Nyári, and Károly Szemerédy. András Almási-Tóth directs the production. Performance Dates: Sept. 22-Oct. 5, 2024 Péter Dobszay will conduct Verdi’s Requiem and will feature soloists Andrea Brassói-Jőrös, Andrea Szántó, István Kovácsházi, and Krisztián Cser. András Almási-Tóth {…}

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Ausrine Stundyte, Sara Jakubiak, Elena Guseva, Brian Jagde, Chiara Isotton Headline Opéra de Lyon’s 2023-24 Season

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The Opéra de Lyon has announced its 2023-24 season. Opera The season kicks off with “Die Frau ohne Schatten” in a production by Mariusz Trelinski. Daniele Rustioni conducts a cast starring Sara Jakubiak, Josef Wagner, Ambur Braid, and Vincent Wolfsteiner. Performance Dates: Oct. 17 – 31, 2023 Daniele Rustioni conducts “Adriana Lecouvreur” with Elena Stikhina in the title role. The {…}

News, Season Announcement

Elza van den Heever, Joseph Calleja, Nicholas Brownlee, Corinne Winters, Allan Clayton & Anna Princeva Lead Oper Frankfurt’s 2025-26 Season

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Oper Frankfurt has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres  Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” will star Teona Todua, Karolina Bengtsson, Kelsey Lauritano, Taehan Kim, Sakhiwe Mkosana, Magnus Dietrich, Andrew Kim, Bianca Tognocchi, Elizabeth Reiter, Liviu Holender, and Sebastian Geyer. Thomas Guggeis conducts the production by Mariame Clément. Performance Dates: Sept. 21, 2025-Jan. 17, 2026 Alexander Tsymbalyuk leads Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” with Karolina {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: Tosca (2019 Revival)

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(Photo: Brescia e Amisano) It was December 7, 2019, when the curtain of Teatro alla Scala rose before the select audience that annually attends the Sant’Ambroeus performance, better known among opera lovers as “La prima della Scala,” the event that inaugurates the new season of the prestigious Italian theater. To open the 2019-20 season—unaware that it would soon be brutally {…}