Anastasia Bartoli, Ruzil Gatin, Raffaella Lupinacci & Piero Pretti Lead Macerata Opera Festival’s 2026 Season

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The Macerata Opera Festival has announced its 2026 season. The festival will be held between July 17 and August 9, 2026. The season will open with Verdi’s “Nabucco” in a production by Paul-Émile Fourny and conducted by Fabrizio Maria Carminati. Ariun Ganbaatar, Alberto Comes, Anastasia Bartoli, Alessandro Scotto Di Luzio, and Laura Verrecchia star. Performance Dates: July 17-August 9, 2026 {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Mezzo-Soprano Raffaella Lupinacci On Her Role Debut As Arsace At The Rossini Opera Festival

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With less than a month to go before the start of Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival, OperaWire met up with one of this season’s stars, mezzo-soprano Raffaella Lupinacci, who will be playing the role of Arsace in Rossini’s opera seria “Aureliano in Palmira,” which premiered at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala in 1813. Although it is not one of Rossini’s better-known operas, {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

In Less Than Five Minutes, Get to Know – Mezzo-Soprano Raffaella Lupinacci

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(Photo: Chiara Mirelli) Mezzo-soprano Raffaella Lupinacci, having just completed a run of performances as Giovanna Seymour in La Monnaie’s presentation of “Bastarda,” a larger-than-life presentation of Queen Elizabeth I as seen through the musical highlights of Donizetti’s Tudor tetralogy, is currently preparing for the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, in which she will play the role of Arsace in “Aureliano {…}

Artist of the Week, Special Features

Artist of the Week: Raffaella Lupinacci

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This week, the Dutch National Opera will present a new production of “Anna Bolena” with a stellar cast headlined by rising star, Raffaella Lupinacci in her house debut. The Italian Mezzo-soprano will bring her acclaimed Giovanna Seymour to the Dutch house. The mezzo has performed the role at the Teatro Carlo Felice and Lithuanian Opera where critics have raved stating, {…}

News, Streaming

Sally Matthews, Enea Scala, Michele Pertusi & Raffaella Lupinacci Highlight Stream of ‘Norma’ From La Monnaie

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(Credit: Karl Forster) Belgian opera house La Monnaie has announced that it will stream a production of Bellini’s “Norma” on its website starting Jan. 11, 2022. The stream will be available until Feb. 22, 2022. The opera stars Enea Scala in the role of Pollione, Michele Pertusi as Oroveso, Raffaella Lupinacci as Adalgisa, and Sally Matthews in the title role. {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Francesca Sassu & Raffaella Lupinacci on Getting COVID-19, ‘Anna Bolena,’ & Returning to the Stage

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Francesca Sassu and Raffaella Lupinacci’s long-awaited debuts at the Lithuanian Opera in “Anna Bolena” proved quite a unique experience for both artists. Namely due to COVID-19. The Italian singers were set to perform the work for the first time in August until they tested positive for the virus. As a result, the company postponed the opening of the production while {…}

News

Lithuanian Opera Reschedules ‘Anna Bolena’ with Francesca Sassu & Raffaella Lupinacci

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Following the postponement of “Anna Bolena” at the Lithuanian Opera, the company will open the production on Oct. 4. The showcase, which was originally set to open on August 25, will star Francesca Sassu in the title role and Raffaella Lupinacci in her role debut as Giovanna Seymour. Michele Angelini and Tadas Girininkas round out the first cast. The second {…}

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Artist Of The Week: Raffaella Lupinacci

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The role of Carmen is one of the most iconic in the repertoire. It’s a role that most mezzos dream of performing for its famous arias and its complex heroine. This week mezzo-soprano Raffaella Lupinacci sings the title role for the first time in her career. Lupinacci will bring her first interpretation of the title role to the prestigious Luglio {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Raffaella Lupinacci On Her Work At Wexford Festival Opera & Festival Della Valle D’Itria

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Often attention is focused on the stars of the opera world, but below the stellasphere there exist thousands of other singers, directors, conductors, and musicians pursuing their careers. Some are fairly well established and make comfortable livings on the stage and in the concert halls, some struggle to maintain a full calendar, while others are winding down as retirement approaches, {…}

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Anastasia Bartoli, Ruzil Gatin, Raffaella Lupinacci & Piero Pretti Lead Macerata Opera Festival’s 2026 Season

Q & A: Mezzo-Soprano Raffaella Lupinacci On Her Role Debut As Arsace At The Rossini Opera Festival

In Less Than Five Minutes, Get to Know – Mezzo-Soprano Raffaella Lupinacci

Artist of the Week: Raffaella Lupinacci

Sally Matthews, Enea Scala, Michele Pertusi & Raffaella Lupinacci Highlight Stream of ‘Norma’ From La Monnaie

Q & A: Francesca Sassu & Raffaella Lupinacci on Getting COVID-19, ‘Anna Bolena,’ & Returning to the Stage

Lithuanian Opera Reschedules ‘Anna Bolena’ with Francesca Sassu & Raffaella Lupinacci

Artist Of The Week: Raffaella Lupinacci

Q & A: Raffaella Lupinacci On Her Work At Wexford Festival Opera & Festival Della Valle D’Itria