Cecilia Bartoli, Francesco Meli &  María José Siri Lead Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s 2022-23 Season

By Francisco Salazar

Tha Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced its 2022-23 Season. Here is a look:

Daniele Gatti conducts a revival of Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” with Ruzil Gatin, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Nicola Alaimo, Fabio Capitanucci, Evgeny Stavinskiy, and Carmen Buendí.

Performance Dates: Sept. 8-15, 2022

Zubin Mehta conducts Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” with Cesare Lievi directing. Amartushvin Enkhbat, María José Siri, Ekaterina Semenchuck, Fabio Sartori, and Riccardo Fassi directing.

Performance Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 7, 2022

Cecilia Bartoli leads Händel’s “Alcina” alongside Carlo Vistoli, Lucía Martín Cartón, Kristina Hammarström, Petr Nekoranec, and Riccardo Novaro.

Performance Dates: Oct. 18-26, 2022

Francesco Meli, María José Siri, Roberto Frontali, and Vitalij Kowaljow star in Verdi’s “Ernani” with James Conlon conducting and Leo Muscato directing.

Performance Dates: Nov. 10-20, 2022

Mikhail Petrenko, Francesco Meli, Alexander Vinogradov, Ekaterina Semenchuck, and Benedetta Torre lead Verdi’s “Don Carlo” with Daniele Gatti conducting and Roberto Andò directing.

Performance Dates: Dec. 27, 2022-Jan. 8, 2023

Benedetta Torre and Luca Bernard lead Mozart’s “La Finta Semplice” with Theodor Guschlbauer conducting and Claudia Blersch directing.

Performance Dates: Jan. 24-29, 2023

Busoni’s “Doktor Faust” will star Thomas Hampson, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, AJ Glueckert, and Olga Bezsmertna. Ingo Metzmacher conducts the new production by Davide Livermore.

Performance Dates: Feb. 7-21, 2023

Nadine Sierra, Francesco Meli, and Plácido Domingo  star in Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Zubin Mehta conducting.

Performance Dates: Feb. 12-22 2023

Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” will star Sara Blanch, Matthew Swensen, Vito Priante, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Adriana Di Paola, and Christian Collia.  Daniele Gatti conducts the production by Frederic Wake-Walker.

Performance Dates: March 12-26, 2023

The season comes to a close with Bizet’s “Carmen” with Clémentine Margaine, Francesco Meli, Mattia Olivieri, and Valentina Naforniță. 

Performance Dates: March 28-April 16, 2023

Concerts 

Daniele Gatti leads the chorus and orchestra of the Maggio Musicale in a  Wagner and Verdi program.

Performance Date: Oct. 16, 2022

Zubin Mehta conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Eleonora Filipponi.

Performance Date: Oct. 21, 2022

Mandy Fredrich, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Maximilian Schmitt, and Tareq Nazmi lead Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Zubin Mehta conducting. The concert also features Symphony No. 8.

Performance Date: Dec. 9, 2022

Diego Fasolis conducts Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Lenneke Ruiten, Lucia Cirillo, Juan Francisco Gatell, and Georg Nigl.

Performance Date: Dec. 22, 2022

Daniele Gatti conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Lenneke Ruiten, Eleonora Filipponi, and Maximilian Schmitt.

Performance Date: Dec. 31, 2022

Ingo Metzmacher conducts a Mahler and Schubert program.

Performance Date: Jan. 22, 2023

Jessica Pratt joins Daniele Gatti for a Vivaldi, Stravinsky and Bach program.

Performance Date: March 10, 2023

Zubin Mehta conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with soloists Christiane Karg and Michèle Losier.

Performance Date: March 24, 2023

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