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Silvia Frigato & Heather Newhouse Lead the 2024 Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella

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(Photo credit: Nikolai Schukoff) The Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella has announced its line up for the 2024 season. This article only features vocal works. Opening the festival, artistic director Andrea De Carlo leads the Ensemble Mare Nostrum in Stradella’s oratorio “San Giovanni Battista.” Soloist are sopranos Silvia Frigato and Dorota Szczepańska, countertenor Danilo Pastore, tenor Roberto Manuel Zangari, and bass {…}

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Teatro Regio di Torino Announces Cast Change for ‘La Rondine’

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The Teatro Regio di Torino has announced a cast change for its production of “La Rondine.” The company said that Oreste Cosimo will replace Rodrigo Porras Garrido in the role of Ruggero. Cosimo also took to social media, “Extremely excited to share my house & role DEBUT with you as RUGGERO at the Teatro Regio Torino! An incredible production by {…}

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Ravenna Festival to Present Riccardo Muti & Verdi

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The Ravenna Festival is set to present “a trilogy according to Riccardo Muti.” From Dec. 16 to 22, Muti will lead his Cherubini Orchestra in the semi-staged performances of “Norma” and “Nabucco” and in an all-Verdi gala at the 19th-century Alighieri Theatre. On Dec. 16 and 19, Muti will conduct Bellini’s “Norma” with Klodjan Kaçani, Vittorio De Campo, Monica Conesa, {…}

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Teatro Comunale di Sassari Announces 2023 Season

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The Teatro Comunale di Sassari has announced its 2023 season. The season will open with a concert conducted by Michelangelo Mazza and soprano Francesca Sassu. Performance Date: Sept. 23, 2023 Verdi’s “Macbeth” will be conducted by Michelangelo Mazza and will star Franco Vassallo, Gabrielle Mouhlen, and Gianluca Terranova. Andrea Cigni directs. Performance Dates: Oct. 13 & 15, 2023 Rossini’s “Il {…}

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Donizetti Theatre Foundation Discovers Manuscript of ‘Alahor in Granata’

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The Donizetti Theatre Foundation of Bergamo and the “Alessandro Scarlatti” Conservatory of Palermo have discovered the autograph manuscript of Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Alahor in Granata,” composed between 1825 and 1826 precisely for Palermo. The discovery was made thanks to the library of the Sicilian institution and work of researcher Edoardo Cavalli of the Centro Studi donizettiano. The research activities that {…}

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Artist of the Week: Luciano Ganci

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This week the Konzerthaus Berlin is set to world premiere Donizetti’s “Dalinda,” a reworked version of the famed “Lucrezia Borgia.” The opera, which has been restored in a new version by  Eleonora Di Cintio, will star a cast of Bel Canto singers including the acclaimed tenor Luciano Ganci. Ganci will return to the Konzerthaus for the first time in five {…}