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Maria Teresa Leva, Simon Lim & Vittoria Yeo Lead Teatro Comunale di Modena’s 2022-23 Season

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The Teatro Comunale di Modena has announced its 2022-23 season. Arrigo Boito’s “Mefistofele” opens the season with a cast that includes Simon Lim, Antonio Poli, Marta Mari, and Eleonora Filipponi. Francesco Pasqualetti conducts the production by Enrico Stinchelli. Performance Dates: Oct. 7 & 9, 2022 Vittoria Yeo, Daniela Schillaci, Diego Cavazzini, Nozomi Kato, and Sergio Vitale star in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with {…}

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Vittorio Prato, Andrea Mastroni & Sonia Prina Headline Teatro Coccia’s 2021-22 Fall Season

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The Teatro Coccia in Novara, Italy has announced its 2021-22 fall season. The season opens with Mini Opere. The first work that will be presented is “Boccacio Delivery Ovvero la Vendetta di Cisti Fornaio” by Alberto Cara. The production will be directed by Salvatore Sito and conducted by Carlo Emilio Tortarolo. The opera will star Federica Vinci and Andrea Tabili. {…}

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The Haydn Foundation 2021 Review: Alice

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(Photo: Roberto Ricci) “Alice in Wonderland,” Lewis Carroll’s novel which has entertained children down the generations is a multi-layered work, which has lent itself to a variety of interpretations over the years, in which commentators from many disciplines have looked beyond the colorful narrative, to reveal its symbolic references, satirical portraits, psychological depths, and its mathematical and linguistic conceits. Such {…}

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Teatro Regio di Parma Announces ‘Rigoletto al Barsò’

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The Teatro Regio di Parma has announced “Rigoletto al barsò.” The theater will showcase a production of Verdi’s beloved opera this summer at the Parma, Parco della Musica from June 29 through July 16. The cast will include David Astorga and Carmine Riccio sharing the role of the Duke, with Giulia Bolcato and Giada Borrelli alternating as Gilda. Federico Longhi {…}

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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2018 Review: Gli Amore d’Apollo e Dafne

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One of the highlights of the Innsbruck Early Music Festival is the “Cesti Competion,” for singers specialising in the baroque repertoire. Now in its ninth year, one of the prizes on offer for the contestants who qualify for the final round is the opportunity to sing in an opera at the following year’s festival. It is presented as “Barockoper: Jung,” {…}

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Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – International (5/4-6): Rossini, Thomas Ades & Boito On Display

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This weekend is filled with a number of rarities and modern masterpieces all around the world. We look at what we think audiences can discover for the first time and rising stars performing these roles. La Donna del Lago, Opera Royal de Wallonie, Liege, Belgium  Salome Jicia takes on the title role in Rossini’s rarely performed drama with Marianna Pizzolato {…}

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Teatro La Fenice 2017-18 Review – Signor Bruschino: Rossini Farce Gets Solid, If Not Overly Exciting, Revival

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Over the course of three years, between 1810 and 1813, Rossini rushed off five farces and a two-act opera for the Teatro Moise in Venice, which, unfortunately, closed its doors in 1818, and was subsequently demolished, although not before serving time as a puppet theatre and then as the city’s first cinema. The theater may be gone and largely forgotten, {…}

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Teatro Olimpico Review 2017 – L’Orfeo: Strong Singing & Gorgeous Theater Deliver Memorable Evening

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No apologies are made for starting this review of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” with a description of the venue, Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico, which must count as one of the world’s most beautiful and architectural significant theatres. Designed by Palladio in 1580, it was described by Goethe as “a theatre based on the ancient model, but in small proportions and indescribably beautiful…”. Palladio {…}