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Iván Ayón Rivas, Maria Josè Siri, Erika Grimaldi, Piero Pretti & Olga Peretyatko Lead Teatro Carlo Felice’s 2024-25 Season

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Genova’s Teatro Carlo Felice has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the operas and concerts. Opera The season will open with a double bill featuring the play “Giro di vite” by Henry James and Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw.”  Davide Livermore directs the production with Riccardo Minasi at the podium. The cast for Britten will {…}

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Piero Pretti Headlines Teatro alla Scala’s ‘I Vespri Siciliani’

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The Teatro alla Scala is set to present a new production of Verdi’s Risorgimento work, “I Vespri Siciliani.” The work, which has not been performed at the famed theater since 1989-90 season season, will star Luca Micheletti, Roman Burdenko, Adriano Gramigni, Piero Pretti, Dmitry Beloselskiy, Marina Rebeka, and Angela Meade. In a statement Pretti said, “This is a stirring, complex, {…}

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Claudia Pavone, Piero Pretti & Carlo Lepore Lead Teatro Comunale di Sassari’s 2022 Season

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Italy’s Teatro Comunale di Sassari has announced its 2022 season. The season opens with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Sergio Alapont conducts a cast that includes Vincenzo Nizzardo (Don Giovanni), Francesca Pusceddu (Zerlina), Karen Gardeazabal (Donna Anna), Santiago Sanchez (Don Ottavio), Carmen Buendìa (Donna Elvira), Davide Giangregorio (Leporello),  Alberto Petricca (Masetto), and Mariano Buccino. Paolo Gavazzeni and Piero Maranghi directs. Performance Dates: {…}

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Adriana Gonzalez, Piero Pretti, Susan Graham & Thomas Hampson Lead Dallas Symphony’s 2022-23 Season

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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2022-23 season featuring numerous concerts and international soloists. For the purposes of this article, we will highlight vocal performances. Stephane Deneve conducts Jeanine de Bique in a program of music by Connesson, Barber, and Rachmaninoff. Performance Dates: Sept. 22-24, 2022 Fabio Luisi conducts Susan Graham and Thomas Hampson in selections from Lehar’s “The {…}

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Marina Rebeka, Piero Pretti, Elsa Benoit & Mario Chang Headline OperaVision’s December 2021 Streaming Lineup

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(Credit: Mikel Ponce / Miguel Lorenzo) OperaVision has announced its streams for the month of December. Clément Hervieu-Léger’s production of Philippe Hersant and Jean Echenoz’s “Les Éclairs” from Opéra Comique kicks off the streaming slate. The opera features Jean-Christophe Lanièce, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, François Rougier, Elsa Benoit, André Heyboer, Jérôme Boutillier, Alban Dufourt, and Mathieu Dubroca. Ariane Matiakh conducts. Streaming dates: {…}

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Selene Zanetti & Piero Pretti Lead Teatro Palermo’s ‘Les Vêpres Siciliennes’

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The Teatro Massimo di Palermos is set to open its 2022 season with Giuseppe Verdi’s “Les Vêpres Siciliennes.” The new production will be conducted by Omer Meir Wellber and will be staged by Emma Dante. The production will mark the first time Palermo present the Verdi work in its five-act French version; this version of “Les Vêpres Siciliennes” will be {…}

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Elina Garanča, Piero Pretti & Lisette Oropesa Lead Festival Verdi’s 2021 Season

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The Festival Verdi has announced its 2021 season and will take place in both Parma and Busetto. Here is a look at the operaic performances planned for this season. Operas & Concerts  The season kicks off with “Un ballo in maschera“ at Teatro Regio di Parma in a new staging by Graham Vick. Roberto Abbado conducts the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini {…}