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Roberta Mantegna, Monica Zanettin & Giovanni Sala Lead Teatro Alighieri’s 2021-22 Season

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The Teatro Alighieri di Ravenna in Itay has announced its 2021-22 season featuring Dance and Opera. For the purposes of this article, we will focus solely on the operatic performances. The season opens with Haydn’s “L’isola disabitata” with Ensemble Dolce Concento, led by Nicola Valentini with Jacopo Raffaele at the fortepiano performing. The cast will include Giuseppina Bridelli, Anna Maria {…}

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Francesco Meli, Luciano Ganci & Giovanni Sebastiano Sala Team Up for Living Room Concert

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IME Productions has released “Tre tenori in concert, from their home to your home.” The concert features Luciano Ganci, Francesco Meli, and Giovanni Sebastiano Sala and pays homage to the original three tenors Lucinao Pavarotti, Jose Carreras, and Placido Domingo with a special appearance from Zubin Mehta, who conducted the three in the 90s. The concert includes arias by Puccini {…}

Editorials, Reviews

‘Don Giovanni’ Is One of the Greatest Works Ever Written. Why Is It So Hard for Directors to Get Right?

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(Photo: © Monika Rittershaus) “Don Giovanni” is an opera of seductions and escapes, moral wreckage and divine retribution, a shimmering mosaic of comedy, tragedy, farce, and existential dread. Yet “the mother of all operas” is also a uniquely treacherous work—at once alluring and intractable, irresistibly open yet elusive. Music’s sublimity rarely fails to connect with audiences, even in a less-than-stellar {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2023-24 Review: Don Giovanni

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© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith Trigger warning: Mozart aficionados, look away now. One might think Wolfgang Amadeus to be somewhat overrated, and the fact that he was hugely prolific, widely acknowledged to be a prodigy and is almost globally asserted to have been a genius, does little by way of endearing his music to my ear. I {…}

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Cast Change: Nina Solodovnikova to Make Salzburg Festival Debut in ‘Lucio Silla’

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(Credit: Nelya Agdeeva) The Salzburg Festival has announced a cast change for its semi-staged production of “Lucio Silla.” The company said Nina Solodovnikova will sing the role of Giunia replacing Sara Blanch. The performance will mark Solodovnikova’s debut at the festival. Solodovnikova is an ensemble member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she has performed roles including Violetta in “La traviata,” {…}

News, Season Announcement

Mariangela Sicilia, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Enea Scala & Roberto Aronica Headline Teatro Verdi di Pisa’s 2026-27 Season

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The Teatro Verdi di Pisa has announced its 2026-27 season. Anna Caterina Antonacci, Enea Scala, Penelope Kendros, Erica Zulikha Benato, Margherita Sala, Anita Monserrat, and Valentina Coletti star Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Attilio Cremonesi conducts and Francesco Bondì directs. Performance Dates: Oct. 23 & 25, 2026 Rossini’s “L’occasione fa il ladro ossia Il cambio della valigia” will star Yukang Zheng, {…}

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Pretty Yende, Nicole Car, Adam Smith, Lidia Fridman, Nina Minasyan, Russell Thomas, Ruth Iniesta, & Lawrence Brownlee Lead Teatro Massimi di Palermo’s 2026-27 Season

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The Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Camille Saint-Saëns’s “Samson et Dalila” will be directed by Jean-Louis Grinda and conducted by Emmanuel Villaume. Martin Muehle and Varduhi Abrahamyan star in the title role. Performance Dates: Nov. 22-29, 2026 Alessandro Baldessarri, Peter e Jill Gabriel’s “Non dirmi che hai paura” will be directed by Laura Ruocco. Performance Dates: {…}

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Jakub Józef Orliński, Malin Byström, Aigul Akhmetshina, Tomasz Konieczny, Monika Radecka, Evelyn Herlitzius, Ausrine Stundyte, Artur Ruciński Lead Polish National Opera’s 2026-27 Season

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The Polish National Opera has announced its 2026-27 season. New Productions  Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the world premiere of Maxim Kolomiiets’ “The Mothers of Kherson” in a production by Barbara Wysocka. The cast includes Izabela Matuła, Hanna Sosnowska-Bill, Weronika Wojtkowska, Elissa Pfaender, Małgorzata Walewska, Jadwiga Postrożna, Andrei Bondarenko, Katarzyna Wietrzny, Tomasz Rak, Ólafur Sigurdarson, Tadeusz Szlenkier, and Adrian Domarecki. Performance Dates: Oct. 16-27, 2026 Paweł Mykietyn’s {…}