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Juliana Grigoryan, Chiara Amarù & Federica Vitali Lead Teatro del Giglio’s 2023-24 Season

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The Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Italy has announced its 2023-24 season. The season will open with Puccini’s “La bohème” directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti and conducted by Nicola Paslowski. The cast will include Juliana Grigoryan (Mimì), Alessia Pintossi (Musetta), Alessandro Scotto di Luzio (Rodolfo), and Christian Federici (Marcello). Performance Dates: Oct. 20 & 22, 2023 Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di {…}
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Federica Vitali Replaces Carmen Giannattasio In ‘I Masnadieri’

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Carmen Giannattassio has canceled her role debut in “I Masnadieri” at Opéra de Bilbao. The company announced that the soprano will no longer sing the role of Amalia due to health reasons. As a result, Federica Vitali will take over the role in the same production she performed at the Festival de Parma in 2016 in her debut in Bilbao. The soprano will {…}
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Teatro del Giglio Announces 2024-25 Season

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(Credit: Teatro del Giglio) The Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Italy has announced its 2024-25 season. The season opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” with Massimo Cavalletti, Clarissa Costanzo, and Azer Zada. Henry Kennedy conducts the production by Luca Orsini. Performance Dates: Nov. 29 & Dec. 1, 2024 Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier” will be directed by Andrea Cigni and will star Michael Spadaccini, Maria {…}
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Maria Teresa Leva, Annalisa Stroppa & Angelo Villari Lead Teatro Grande di Brescia’s 2024 Season

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The Teatro Grande di Brescia has announced its 2024 season. Sebastiano Rolli conducts Bellini’s “I Capuleti e I Montecchi” with Annalisa Stroppa, Caterina Sala, and Matteo Falcier. Andrea De Rosa directs. Performance Dates: Sept. 27 & 29, 2024 Do Yeon Kim, Junhyeok Park, Gabriele Valsecchi, and Matteo Torcaso star in Puccini’s “La Boheme” with Riccardo Bisatti conducting. Maria Luisa Bafunno {…}
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Ruth Iniesta, Arsen Soghomonyan & Daniela Barcellona Lead Teatro Verdi Trieste’s 2022-23 Season

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The Teatro Verdi Trieste has announced its 2022-23 season featuring six operatic productions. Daniel Oren and Ivan Ciampa conduct Verdi’s “Otello” in a production by Giulio Ciabatti. Arsen Soghomonyan stars alongside Lianna Haroutounian, Roman Burdenko, and Mario Bahg. Performance Dates: Nov. 4-15, 2022 Christopher Franklin conducts Puccini’s “La Bohème” with Carlo Antonio De Lucia directing. Lavinia Bini, Alessandro Scotto di {…}
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Gregory Kunde, Olga Peretyatko & Zuzana Marková Lead Teatro Comunale di Bologna’s 2022 Season

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The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced its 2022 season featuring several new productions and star singers. Here is a look at this season’s lineup. Puccini’s “Tosca” inaugurates the season with Hugo De Ana directing. Daniel Oren conducts the production which is set to star María José Siri, Roberto Aronica, Mikheil Sheshaberidze, Svetlana Kasyan, Erwin Schrott, Dalibor Jenis, and Claudio {…}
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Criticism on Fridays: November Protests in Europe

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(Photos from protests in Bologna by soprano Federica Vitali) Every Friday, Polina Lyapustina delivers a short essay on some of the most sensitive topics in the industry with the intent of establishing a dialogue about the opera world and its future. The choice of topics discussed, how they are researched, and how they are portrayed is conducted independently of OperaWire’s {…}
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Musicians & Artists Protest Theater Closures in Munich, Milan & Barcelona

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Following the closure of theaters around European numerous protests were staged outside major theaters Among the theaters that saw protests included the Bayerische Staatsoper,  Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro alla Scala, and Gran Teatre del Liceu. According to the Bayerische Staatsoper’s social media pages employees and members of all Munich theaters demonstrated with a human chain through the city center {…}

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