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Anna Caterina Antonacci, Roberto Aronica, Devid Cecconi & Enea Scala Lead Teatro Goldini di Livorno’s 2026-27 Season

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The Teatro Goldini di Livorno has announced its 2026-27 season. Anna Caterina Antonacci, Penelope Kendros, Erica Zulikha Benato, Margherita Sala, Anita Montserrat, Valentina Coletti, and Enea Scala star in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Attilio Cremonesi conducts the production by Francesco Bondì. Performance Dates: Nov. 6 & 8, 2026 Cherubini’s “L’Adriano in Siria” will be directed by Massimo Gasparon Pizzi Contarini {…}
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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 {…}
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Mariangela Sicilia, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Enea Scala & Roberto Aronica Headline Teatro Verdi di Pisa’s 2026-27 Season

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The Teatro Verdi di Pisa has announced its 2026-27 season. Anna Caterina Antonacci, Enea Scala, Penelope Kendros, Erica Zulikha Benato, Margherita Sala, Anita Monserrat, and Valentina Coletti star Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Attilio Cremonesi conducts and Francesco Bondì directs. Performance Dates: Oct. 23 & 25, 2026 Rossini’s “L’occasione fa il ladro ossia Il cambio della valigia” will star Yukang Zheng, {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2025-26 Review: Carmen

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(Photo: Brescia e Amisano © Teatro alla Scala) There are works that endure through time because they contain questions that no era has ever been able to answer completely. “Carmen” is one of them. Since its controversial Paris premiere in 1875, when the Opéra-Comique witnessed an audience bewildered by a story centered on a woman who rejected the social and {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2026 Review: Francesco Meli & Luca Salsi’s Recital

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(Photo: Brescia e Amisano © Teatro alla Scala) At a time when vocal recitals seem to have lost some of the prominence they enjoyed throughout much of the twentieth century, it is particularly significant that two artists at the height of their careers should choose to celebrate a decade of collaboration through a format that demands complete artistic exposure. Such {…}
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Protest Erupt as Teatro alla Scala Hikes Up Prices for Gallery Seats

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Following the announcement that the Teatro alla Scala was increasing prices of more than 30 per cent, protests erupted. The Times of London is reporting that during a performance of “Carmen” last week, multicolored leaflets were thrown down onto the stalls denouncing the move as one that would “burden the theatre’s traditional audience” and demanding it be reversed. According to {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2025-26 Review: Jakub Józef Orliński and Michał Biel’s Recital

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(Photo: Brescia e Amisano © Teatro alla Scala) At a historical moment in which Baroque singing has ceased to be a field associated with relatively small circles of enthusiasts and specialists and has instead become a central component of programming in the world’s leading opera houses, few figures embody this transformation more effectively than Jakub Józef Orliński. The Polish artist now {…}
Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Selene Zanetti on Liù, Teatro alla Scala & Jackie Chan’s New ‘Turandot’ Production

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Italian Soprano Selene Zanetti is a rising star in the opera world having conquered many of the worlds opera houses including the Teatro La Fenice, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro San Carlo, Hamburg State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, and Wiener Staatsoper.  This season, she continued her ascension making her debut at the crown jewel of all Italian theaters, the Teatro alla Scala. {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2025-2026 Review: Nabucodonosor

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(Credit: Brescia e Amisano © Teatro alla Scala) A dark chapter in Giuseppe Verdi’s life came to an end with the success of “Nabucodonosor” at La Scala in 1842. During the preceding decade, between 1832 and 1842, Verdi had been rejected by the Milan Conservatory; his sister Giuseppa died, followed by his daughter Virginia just fourteen months old, his son {…}

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