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News, Season Announcement

Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi Announces 2026 Season

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The Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi has been announced its 2026 season. “Le Peripezie di Pinco Pallino” will be performed as a new commission. Performance Dates: April 19-21, 2026 Bizet’s “Carmen” will get a new production Performance Dates: May 2026 Gaspare Spontini’s “Li Finti Filosofi” will get a new production. Performance Dates: July 2026 Puccini’s “Il Trittico” will be performed in {…}

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Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi to Present Modern Premiere of ‘I Quadri Parlanti’

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The Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi’s 57th season continues with Spontini’s “I Quadri Parlanti.” The opera, which will open on Nov. 29 and will also be performed on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, will be performed for the first time in modern history. The work had its world premiere in 1800 at the Teatro di Santa Cecilia a Palermo and has {…}

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Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi to Revive ‘Il turco in Italia’ For First Time in 205 Years

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(Credit: Valentina Zanaga) Rossini’s “Il turco in Italia” is set to be presented at the 57th season of the Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi. The opera, which has been absent for 205 years from Jesi, will be showcased in a new production by Roerto Catalano on Nov. 8 and 10. The cast will be led by Elena Galitskaia as Donna Fiorilla, Bruno {…}

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Teatro G. B. Pergolesi di Jesi Announces 2026 Season & Pergolesi Spontini Festival

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(Photo credit: Karim Siari) Teatro G. B. Pergolesi di Jesi announces its season and lineup for the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in 2026. This article only features classical voice events. Pergolesi Spontini Festival “Disarming Accords” Maria Olimpia Renna solos in a concert featuring works by Gershwin and Bernstein. Marco Attura directs the Time Machine Ensemble. Performance Date: July 18, 2026 Raphael {…}

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Teatro G. B. Pergolesi di Jesi Announces 2025 Season

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The Teatro G. B. Pergolesi di Jesi has announced its 58th season. Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” gets an adaptation by Nunzia Nigro. Germano Neri directs the production which is part of the “Progetto Scuola in Canto” series. Performance Dates: May 28-30, 2025 For the “Progetto Opera nei Borghi” series is “La Gare Generose.” Nicole Kenley-Miller directs and Kristin Ditlow conducts. {…}

Interviews

Q & A: Italian Baritone Bruno Taddia On His Role as Licinius in Spontini’s ‘La Vestale’

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(Photo: Matilde Fassò) Italian baritone Bruno Taddia is embarking on his most challenging role yet as Licinius in Gaspare Spontini’s “La Vestale,” with libretto by Étienne de Jouy, for the Pergolesi Spontini Festival in Jesi. OperaWire dives headfirst into asking Taddia all about how he connects with this role and what it means to him as he performs for this {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole 2024-25 Review: La Rondine

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(Photo credit: Philippe Gisselbrecht) On October 4 and 6, the Metz Opera Theatre, in collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro di Piza and the Fondazione Pergolesi Spondini di Jesi, and with the support of the Italian Consulate in Metz, presented Puccini’s “La Rondine,” an interesting choice for this pocket opera whose programming has always been eclectic. All the more so as {…}

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Valeria La Grotta & Omar Montanari Star in ‘Pergolesi Rediscovered’

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The Pergolesi Spontini Foundation is set to present “Pergolesi Rediscovered.” Accademia Bizantina, led by harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone, return to the Festival to perform the world premiere of a new Symphony and five unpublished arias by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi from “Lo frate nnammorato.” The arias presented appear in both the 1732 and 1734 version of Pergolesi’s opera. The vocal soloists include {…}

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Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini Names New Artistic Director

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The Board of the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini led by General Director Lucia Chiatti has announced unanimously that Cristian Carrara will be the next Artistic Director of the Foundation starting December 2027. The Board of Directors thanked Carrara for the work carried out in recent years, sharing his objectives and programmatic lines which focused on affirming the identity of the Festival {…}