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Reviews, Stage Reviews

Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto 2024 Review: Procedura Penale & La Smorfia

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(Photo: Niccol Perini) Each year the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto runs prestigious advanced training courses for young opera singers. Over the years, many great Italian artists have walked through its doors, including Franco Corelli, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Renato Bruson, Anna Moffo, Leo Nucci and Daniela Barcellona. The courses extend over a two-year period, running from April to October, where {…}

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Francesco Meli, Vanessa Goikoetxea & Sara Blanch Lead Maggio Musicale’s 2024 Season

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The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced its 2024 season and its 86th annual festival. Here is a look at the opera and vocal performances. Nikolas Nägele conducts Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” with Aitana Sanz-Pérez, Sandro Lombardi, Elena Ghiaurov, and Annibale Pavone. Performance Date: Jan. 15 & 16, 2024 Giuseppe La Malfa conducts “La Principessa di Gelo” in a production by Manu Lalli. The production will {…}

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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Announces 2023-24 Season

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The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced its 2023-24 season. Opera  The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème” conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti. The cast includes Mariangela Sicilia as Mimì, Gaelano Salas as Rodolfo, Min Kim as Marcello, William Hernandez as Schaunard, Francesco Leone as Colline, Elisa Balbo as Musetta, and Davide Piva as Benoit/Alcindoro. Performance Dates: Nov. 14-29, 2023 The company {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Olga Peretyatko, Marina Rebeka & Regnald Mobley Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get to see a Rossini work, a debut album and a rarely performed work. Boulder Bach Festival  Sono Luminus releases Boulder Bach Festival which includes works by J.S. Bach and his admired older contemporary Johann Christoph Bach that were recorded immediately following the festival week at the conclusion of the Boulder Bach Festival’s 41st year. The {…}

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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s ‘La Finta Semplice’ Gets Another Cast Change

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The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced a conductor change for its performance of “La Finta Semplice” on Jan. 28 & 29, 2023. The company said, “due to a sudden indisposition of maestro Theodor Guschlbauer, Edoardo Barsotti will conduct instead. The company also said Maestro Alessandro Uva will take his place on the harpsichord.” Guschlbauer was already forced to cancel the {…}

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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Announces Conductor Change for ‘La Finta Semplice’

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The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced a conductor change for its performance of “La Finta Semplice” on Jan. 26, 2023. The company said, “due to a sudden indisposition of maestro Theodor Guschlbauer, Edoardo Barsotti will conduct instead. The company also said Maestro Alessandro Uva will take his place on the harpsichord. Barsotti is an Italian pianist and vocal coach who {…}

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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino to Perform ‘La Finta Semplice’

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The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is set to present Mozart’s opera “La Finta Semplice “for the first time in the company’s history. The work, which opens on Jan. 24 is set to star Benedetta Torre as Rosina, Eduardo Martinez Flores as Don Cassandro, Lorenzo Martelli as Don Polidoro, Xenia Tziouvaras as Giacinta, Rosalìa Cid as Ninetta, Luca Bernard as Fracasso, and {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2021-22 Review: Acis et Galatée

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Photo:  Michele Monasta Born in Florence in 1632, Gianbattista Lulli left his native city at the age of 14 in the service of Roger de Lorraine for a life in France. He went on to become a master composer of French baroque music, and along with his librettist Philippe Quinault went on to establish a distinctly French form of opera, {…}