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Artist Of The Week: Piero Pretti

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(Credit: Christian Leiber/ ONP) This week the Metropolitan Opera is set to open its classic production of “Madama Butterfly” with some of the opera’s greatest interpreters and some Met favorites. And with the cast comes a new Met star, Piero Pretti. Pretti, who has established himself throughout Europe since his 2006 professional debut, will make his Met debut in his signature {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Macerata Opera Festival 2026 Review: Il Trovatore

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(Photo: MOF) Macerata Opera Festival’s 62nd season opening weekend concluded with a legendary revival of Verdi’s “Il trovatore.” Director Francisco Negrin’s previously staged 2013 and 2016 production features a minimal stage design with dramatic red, black and LED lighting, pyrotechnics, and hidden trap stage doors where the cast appears and disappears in the blink of an eye. The chorus is {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2025-2026 Review: Lucia di Lammermoor

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“Lucia di Lammermoor” remains one of the supreme achievements of Romantic opera, capable of transforming inner conflict into pure musical expression. Premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 1835, Gaetano Donizetti’s masterpiece transcends the conventional sentimental tragedy to offer one of the most complex female psychological portraits of the nineteenth century. Based on Walter Scott’s The Bride {…}
News, Season Announcement

Corinne Winters, Angela Meade, Luca Salsi, Anna Pirozzi, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya & Iván Ayón Rivas Lead Teatro Comunale di Bologna’s 2027 Season

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The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced its 2027 season. The season opens with Bellini’s “La straniera” featuring Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Iván Ayón Rivas, Vito Priante, and Raffaella Lupinacci. Antonino Fogliani conducts the concert performance. Performance Dates: Jan. 22 & 24, 2027 Fabio Biondi conducts Monteverdi “Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria.” Daniele Abbado directs the production and Stefan Astakhov stars. Performance {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Marina Rebeka, Elīna Garanča, Jessica Pratt, Luca Salsi, Aleksandra Kurzak & Francesco Meli Lead Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s 2027 Season

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The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced its 2027 season. Opera Kristina Mkhitarian star in Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Anthony Ciaramitaro, Luca Salsi, and Min Kim. Performance Dates: Jan. 15-22, 2027 Baldassarre Galuppi’s “Il mondo alla roversa o sia le donne che comandano” will star finalists of the International Pietro Antonio Cesti Baroque Singing Competition in Innsbruck. Chiara Cattani conducts the {…}
News, Season Announcement

Carolina López Moreno, Giorgi Manoshvili, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Ilker Arcayürek & Liparit Avetisyan Lead Teatro Regio di Parma’s 2026-27 Season

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The Teatro Regio di Parma has announced its 2026-27 season. Giorgi Manoshvili headlines Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” with Ana Victòria Pitts, Ekaterina Savinkova, Enkelejda Shkosa, Kirill Belov, Vladislav Chizhov,Dmitry Ulyanov, Denys Pivnitskyi, Ilia Kazakov, Francesco Pittari, Leonardo Cortellazzi, and Stavros Mantis. James Conlon conducts the production by Leo Muscato. Performance Dates: Jan. 22-30, 2027 Amartuvshin Enkhbat leads Verdi’s “Rigoletto” with Liparit Avetisyan, {…}
DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Naxos’s ‘Tosca’

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  Yet another “Tosca” — this one captured live at the 2024 edition of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The production garnered widespread acclaim, not least for its stark pseudo-fascist décor, evocative of today’s authoritarianism worldwide. But how do its musical qualities fare, and do they warrant the release of Naxos’s new CD set? The performance is entrusted to the capable {…}
News, Season Announcement

Danylo Matviienko, Carolina Lopez Moreno, Gregory Kunde, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Erika Grimaldi, Johanni van Oostrum Lead Teatro Regio di Torino’s 2026-27 Season

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The Teatro Regio di Torino has announced its 2026-27 season. The season opens with Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” and Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” with Francesco Micheli directing Leoncavallo and Daniele Menghini directing Mascagni. Leoncavallo’s work will star Carolina Lopez Moreno, Maria Teresa Leva, Martin Muehle, Carlo Ventre, Gregory Kunde, Ariun Ganbaatar, Fabián Veloz, Matteo Mezzaro, Matteo Falcier, Joshua Hopkins, and Rodion Pogossov while {…}

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