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Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli Announces Fall 2021-22 Season

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The Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli in Cremona, Italy has announced its autumn 2021-22 season featuring four productions. Here is a breakdown of what audiences can expect. Ivan Stefanutti directs a production of Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” with Leonardo Sini conducting. Performance Dates: Oct. 8 & 10, 2021 Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” returns with Jacopo Brusa conducting and Roberto Catalano directing.  Performance {…}

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Teatro Regio di Torino To Show Daily Streams via Online Service

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The Teatro Regio di Torino will live stream operas daily. The company announced that it will present new streams every day at 6 p.m. local time to allow fans to continue getting a consistent dose of opera. The company will showcase dress rehearsals of prestigious productions of the current Season and past seasons, which will be available, act by act, {…}

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Yusif Eyvazov, Saioa Hernández & Angela Meade Lead Teatro Massimo’s 2020 Season

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The Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced the 2020 season, which will feature a number of new productions, stars, and concert performances. Opera The season opens with Wagner’s “Parsifal” conducted by Omer Meir Wellber and directed by Graham Vick. The work stars Daniel Kirch in the title role, Eva Maria Westbroek, Evgeny Nikitin, John Relyea, and Thomas Gazheli. Performance Dates: Jan. {…}

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Saioa Hernandez, Leo Nucci & Carmen Giannattasio Headline Teatro Regio Di Torino’s 2019-20 Season

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The Teatro Regio di Torino has announced its 2019-20 season. Bizet’s “Les pêcheurs de perles” opens the season starring Hasmik Torosyan, Yaroslav Abaimov, Fabio Maria Capitanucci, and Ugo Guagliardo. The production will be directed by Julien Lubeck and Cécile Roussat and conducted by Ryan McAdams. Performance Dates: Oct. 3-20, 2019 Anna Pirozzi and Carmen Giannattasio share the title role in Puccini’s “Tosca.” The two divas are {…}

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Michael Adams, Michael Chioldi & Nicole Heaston Highlight Utah Opera’s 2019-20 Season

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Utah Opera has announced its 2019-20 season. The season will open with Verdi’s “La Traviata,” directed by Garnett Bruce, in the newly renovated Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre. Anya Matanovic will star as Violetta Valéry, alongside Rafael Moras making his Utah Opera debut as Alfredo and Metropolitan Opera-regular Michael Chioldi as Germont. Steven White will conduct. Performance Dates: Oct. 12 {…}

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Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – North America (5/11-13): Lucas Meachem, Jennifer Rowley, Bernstein At the Core of Weekend Picks

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For this week’s top five picks we are sticking close to the East Coast with a number of revivals of popular operas and new productions. We also take a look at a Bernstein work that rarely gets a look. Trouble in Tahiti – Boston Lyric Opera As the Leonard Bernstein centennial continues, the BLO will showcase a production of his {…}

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Nicole Cabell, Alek Shrader & Miles Mykkanen Lead Minnesota Opera 2018-19 Season

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The Minnesota Opera has announced its 2018-19 season featuring five productions including one world premiere and two modern masterpieces. The season opens with Puccini’s rarely performed “La Rondine,” which tells the tale of Magda a lively courtesan in Paris. Celine Byrne makes her debut in the title role with Leonardo Capalbo as Ruggero. Octavio Cardenas directs the new production which is {…}

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2018 Spoleto Festival To Feature US Premieres Of ‘Pia de’ Tolomei’ & ‘Tree Of Codes’

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The Spoleto Festival has announced its 2018 festival, which will include three operas including two U.S. premieres. Donizetti’s “Pia de’ Tolomei” will make its premiere on May 27, 2018, in a collaboration with Teatro di Pisa, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, and Teatro Goldoni di Livorno with Andrea Cigni directing the opera. Lidiya Yankovskaya, music director of the Chicago Opera Theater {…}

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Sir Simon Keenlyside, Julia Kleiter, Rosa Feola & Luca Micheletti Lead ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ At Teatro Alla Scala

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(Credit: Marco Brescia & Rudy Amisano) The Teatro alla Scala has announced the upcoming run of Mozart‘s operatic masterpiece “Le Nozze di Figaro.” Sir Simon Keenlyside leads the star-studded cast in the role of Count Almaviva, and is joined onstage by Julia Kleiter as Countess Almaviva, Rosa Feola as Susanna, and Luca Micheletti in the title role. The cast also {…}