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Franco Vassallo, Laura Verrecchia, Valentino Buzza & Giacomo Medici Lead Teatro di Pisa’s 2025-26 Season

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The Teatro di Pisa has announced its 2025-26 season. Franco Vassallo leads Verdi’s “Macbeth” with Roberto Scandiuzzi, Vittoria Yeo, and Matteo Falcier. Giuseppe Finzi conducts the production by Fabio Ceresa.  Performance Dates: Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2025 Poulenc’s “Le Bal Masque” and Bargagna’s “La Torre” will Giacomo Medici, Emanuele Pellegrini, Silvia Porcellini, Oronzo D’Urso, Giulio Termini, and Chiara Scannapieco. Carlo Boccadoro conducts the production by Stefania Panighini. Performance Dates: Nov. {…}
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Teatro Municipale di Piacenza 2025 Review: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

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(Photo: ©Zani-Casadio) In the autumn of 1709, as he was preparing to conclude his journey through Italy, George Frideric Handel triumphantly arrived in Venice to present his second Italian opera, “Agrippina.” The work was enthusiastically received by the audience, who acclaimed the composer with shouts of “Viva il Sassone!” (Long live the Saxon!) and with 27 performances that sealed its {…}
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Jessica Pratt, Carmen Giannattasio, Anastasia Bartoli & Juliana Grigoryan Lead Teatro Comunale di Bologna’s 2025 Season

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The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced its 2025 season. Opera  The season opens with Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” with Riccardo Frizza conducting a cast that includes Carmen Giannattasio, Angelo Villari, and Claudio Sgura. Paul Curran directs. Another cast includes Ann Petersen, Amadi Lagha, and Gustavo Castillo. Performance Dates: Jan. 24-30, 2025 Jessica Pratt, Giovanni Sala, Marko Mimica, and Lucas Meachem lead Donizetti’s {…}
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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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Monteverdi Festival Cremona 2024 Review: Polittico Monteverdiano

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(Photo: Paolo Cisi) For what was the third presentation in a crowded evening of events, Cremona’s Monteverdi Festival scheduled a performance of a selection of the composer’s madrigals, culminating with “Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.” It was, however, not presented as a concert but as a staged performance in the form of an opera, entitled “Polittico Monteverdiano,” put together {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Lisette Oropesa, Asmik Grigorian, Nicholas Brownlee, Juan Diego Flórez & Joyce DiDonato Lead Palau de Les Arts’ 2024-25 Season

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Palau de les Arts in Valencia has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera Gorges Ocloo’s “The Golden Stool” will star Nobulumko Mngxekeza-Nziramasanga and Nonkululeko Nkwinti. Performance Dates: Sept. 19, 2024 Lisette Oropesa sings the title role of Massenet’s “Manon” with Carles Pachon and Charles Castronovo. James Gaffigan conducts the production by Vincent Huguet. Performance Dates: Oct. 3-15, 2024 Elena Stikhina, Piero {…}
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Erika Grimaldi, John Osborn, Sara Blanch & Gregory Kunde Lead Teatro Regio di Torino’s 2024-25 Season

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The Teatro Regio di Torino has announced its 2024-25 season. “Manon” Renato Palumbo conducts Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” with Arnaud Bernard directing. The cast will include Erika Grimaldi, Dinara Alieva, Andeka Gorrotxategui, Carlo Ventre, Carlo Lepore, and Alessandro Luongo. Performance Dates: Oct. 1-26, 2024 Massenet’s “Manon” wil star Ekaterina Bakanova, Martina Russomanno, Bjorn Burger Maxim Lisiin, Atalla Ayan, Andrei Danilov, Roberto {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Lise Davidsen, Sonya Yoncheva, Elīna Garanča, Juan Diego Flórez, Jonas Kaufmann, Asmik Grigorian & Ludovic Tézier Lead Wiener Staatsoper’s 2024-25 Season

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The Wiener Staatsoper has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres Philippe Jordan conducts Verdi’s “Don Carlo” in a new production by Kirill Serebrennikov. The production stars Asmik Grigorian, Roberto Tagliavini, Joshua Guerrero, Étienne Dupuis, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, and Dmitry Ulyanov. The second cast will include Nicole Car, Elīna Garanča, and Vitalij Kowaljow. Performance Dates: Sept. 26, 2024-March 23, 2025 György Kurtág’s “Fin {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Maria José Siri, Pretty Yende, Vittorio Grigòlo & Aigul Akhmetshina Lead Arena di Verona’s 2024 Season

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The Arena di Verona has announced its 2024 season which will be dedicated to Puccini. The season will open with Puccini’s “Turandot” in Franco Zeffirelli’s production. Ekaterina Semenchuk, Yeajin Jeon, Anna Pirozzi, and Olga Maslova sing the title role alongside Piero Giuliacci, Yusif Eyvazov, Angelo Villari, Gregory Kunde, Riccardo Fassi, Mariangela Sicilia, Maria Agresta, and Daria Rybak. Michele Spotti conducts. Performance Dates: June 8-29, 2024 Verdi’s “Aida“ will be {…}

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