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Teatro La Fenice 2024 Review: Maria Egiziaca

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Photo: Roberto Moro Sometimes, opera programming can be extremely original, providing us with unexpected titles. That was the case with La Fenice/Maria Malibran’s “Maria Egiziaca,” Otto Respighi’s eclectic and sensuous opera. Especially when hearing lesser-performed titles, it is very hard to define what to expect musically. While in classic and baroque operas, there is a certain inner grammar of the {…}

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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2023 Review: Juditha Triumphans

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(Photo: Birgit Gufler) At the final curtain call of the Innsbruck Early Music Festival’s splendid production of Vivaldi’s only surviving oratorio, “Judtha Triumphans,” the loudest acclamation was reserved for its conductor, Alessandro De Marchi. After 13 years as its artistic director, he is stepping down from the position. The genuine warmth the festival audience showed towards De Marchi was clearly {…}

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Andrew Staples Leads Teatro La Fenice’s ‘Peter Grimes’

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The Teatro La Fenice is set to present a new production of Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes.” Andrew Staples will lead the production in the title role while Emma Bell will sing the role of Ellen Orford and Mark S. Doss will sing the role of Captain Balstrode. The cast will be rounded out by Sara Fulgoni, Patricia Westley, Jessica Cale, Cameron Becker, Sion Goronwy, Rosalind {…}

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Teatro La Fenice to Present Rarely Performed ‘Engelberta’

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On Oct. 14, Albinoni’s “Engelberta” will premiere at the Teatro Malibran. The production will mark the first modern-day production of the work and will be part of the 2020-21 season for the Teatro La Fenice. The project will be produced in collaboration with the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello di Venezia and was thought for the school, family, and new generation audiences. {…}

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Teatro La Fenice 2019-20 Review: Roberto Devereux

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(Photo: Michele Crosera) Another step back on the road to a post virus normality was taken at Teatro La Fenice with its performance of Donizetti’s “Roberto Devereux.” Seats were returned to the stalls, the orchestra was back in the pit and the singers back on stage. Yes, there were still some restrictions in place, so that face masks were still {…}

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Teatro La Fenice 2019-20 Review: Ottone in Villa

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(Photo: Michele Crosera) Four months after La Fenice closed its doors, opera has once again returned to its stage, albeit not necessarily in a form that one normally associates with a traditional opera house. The regulations aimed at containing the spread of COVID 19 mean that Italian theatres, cinemas, and other public performance spaces must comply with stringent restrictions, which {…}

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Teatro la Fenice to Perform Vivaldi’s ‘Ottone in Villa’

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Opera will return to the Teatro la Fenice on July 10 with a new production of Vivaldi’s “Ottone in Villa.” The new production will be conducted by Diego Fasolis and star Giulia Semenzato, Sonia Prina, Lucia Cirillo, Valentino Buzza, and Michela Antenucci. Giovanni Di Cicco will direct the production with set designs by Massimo Checchetto, costumes by Carlos Tieppo, and {…}

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Teatro La Fenice 2019-20 Review: A Hand Of Bridge/Bluebeard’s Castle

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(Credit: Michele Crosera) The Teatro La Fenice’s pairing of Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” and Samuel Barber’s “A Hand of Bridge” certainly made for an interesting and unusual double bill, although the relationship between the works was not immediately evident. This was recognized by the director Fabio Ceresa who explored possible connections, but finding none, opted to stage them as two distinct, {…}