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Iwona Sobotka, Maria Agresta, Simone Piazzola, lker Arcayürek & Mariangela Sicilia Lead Teatro Municipale di Piacenza’s 2026-27 Season

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The Teatro Municipale di Piacenza has announced its 2026–2027 opera season. Iwona Sobotka, Silvia Beltrami, Eleonora Boaretto, Vincenzo Costanzo, Claudio Sgura, Carlo Raffaelli, Manuel Pierattelli, Alexandru Suciu, Alessio Verna, Viktor Shevchenko, and Andrea Galli star in Giordano’s “Siberia.” Sesto Quatrini conducts Roberto Catalano’s production. Performance Dates: Dec. 18 & 20, 2026 Lucio Dalla’s “L’anno che verrà” will be directed by Manuel Renga. Performance Date: Jan. 16, 2027 Marco {…}
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Teatro Municipale di Piacenza 2025-26 Review: Cronaca di un amore: Callas e Pasolini

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(Photo: Gianni Cravedi) One of the most renowned figures in the world of opera is Maria Callas, not only because of her career marked by dramatic highs and lows, but also due to the relentless gossip surrounding her professional, and above all personal life, as well as the many theories surrounding her death in 1977. Countless multimedia works have explored {…}
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Teatro Municipale di Piacenza 2025-26 Review: L’italiana in Algeri

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(Photo: Andrea Mazzoni) Composed in 1813, “L’italiana in Algeri” remains a masterpiece of bel canto dramma giocoso. Its plot, which worked in Rossini’s Europe, continues to function today, albeit from a different perspective: that of clichés associated with immigration. In the Ottocento, a remote setting such as Algiers aroused the public’s curiosity; Rossini and his librettist Angelo Anelli filled the story {…}
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Teatro Municipale di Piacenza 2025-2026 Review: Don Giovanni

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(Credit: Gianni Cravedi / Teatro Municipale di Piacenza) The great collector of women arrived in Emilia-Romagna, specifically at the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, before moving on to Modena, as part of a co-production between the two cities’ theaters. The scenic concept was devised by Andrea Bernard. A statement of his opens the program booklet, in which he explains that he has {…}
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Teatro Municipale di Piacenza 2025-2026 Review: Stiffelio

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(Photo : ©Gianni Cravedi) When “Stiffelio” premiered in 1850, Giuseppe Verdi was going through a period of transition: he had left behind his so-called “galley years” yet had not fully reached artistic maturity. It is precisely in this phase that “Stiffelio” emerged, revealing itself as a bold experiment: deeply modern in its approach to human conflict and, at the same {…}
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Teatro Municipale di Piacenza 2024-25 Review: La Traviata

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(Photo: © Gianni Cravedi & ® Luca Attilii) The Teatro Municipale di Piacenza presented an ambitious project dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi: “Rigoletto,” “Il trovatore,” and “La Traviata,” brought together in a single cycle under the title “Popular Trilogy,” all performed within the same week. Although not originally conceived by Verdi as a unified set, these three operas represent the composer’s {…}
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Lidia Fridman, Carmela Remigio, Gregory Kunde, Dmitry Korchav & Claudia Pavone Lead Teatro Municipale di Piacenza’s 2025-26 Season

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The Teatro Municipale di Piacenza has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “Stiffelio” featuring Gregory Kunde, Lidia Fridman, Vladimir Stoyanov, and Riccardo Rados. Leonardo Sini conducts the production by Pier Luigi Pizzi.  Performance Dates: Dec. 19 & 21, 2025 Markus Werba leads Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with Renzo Ran, Claudia Pavone, Marco Ciaponi, Carmela Remigio, Tommaso Barea, Alberto Petricca, and Greta Doveri. Enrico Pagano conducts the production by Andrea Bernard. Performance {…}
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Teatro Municipale di Piacenza 2025 Review: The Magic Flute

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(Photo Credit: ©Gianni Cravedi) Emanuel Schikaneder, a prolific stage comedian, singer, and skilled impresario, proposed to Mozart the creation of a new singspiel–a form of German musical theater that alternates spoken dialogue without musical accompaniment–in response to the enduring hegemony of Italian opera, which had long dominated European stages. The entrepreneur’s brilliant insight, as highlighted by Mattia Marino Merlo in {…}

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