The Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera The season opens with Bellini’s “Norma” with Leonardo Sini conducting a production by Hugo De Ana. The cast will include Jessica Pratt and Irina Lungu in the title role alongside Antonio Poli, Elisa Balbo, Aya Wakizono, Carlo Lepore, and Alessio Cacciamani. Performance Dates: Jan. 18-26, 2025 Mozart’s “Don {…}
Teatro di Pisa has announced its 2024-25 season. The season opens with Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier” with Andrea Cigni directing and Francesco Pasqualetti at the podium. Angelo Villari sings the title role alongside Maria Teresa Leva and Angelo Veccia. Michael Spadaccini, Francesca Vitali, and Kim Gangsoonalso star. Performance Dates: Oct. 25 & 27, 2024 Ruth Iniesta and Paolo Lardizzone lead Verdi’s {…}
The Fundación Baluarte has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances from the Pamplona season in Spain. Hannah Morrison, Maartgen Engeltjes, Krystian Adams, and Kresimir Strazanac lead Händel’s “Messiah.” Performance Date: Dec. 19, 2024 Perry So conducts Vedi’s “La Traviata” with Nina Minasyan, Santiago Ballerini, and Juan Jesús Rodríguez starring. Henning Brockhaus directs. Performance Dates: Jan. 31 & {…}
(Photo credit: Philipp Rohner & Kyrre Kristoffersen) Italian conductor Alvise Casellati will lead the annual Opera Italiana is in the Air concert at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. For the third year, professional opera singers and a full orchestra will perform under the baton of Casellati at the Nation’s capital. This year, featured performers in “Opera’s Unexpected Moment” include soprano {…}
I will never die. But when if I do—certainly after 2300—, I want to be mourned with Verdi’s “Requiem.” No discussion. Few musical moments are more rewarding than the first tenor “Kyrie,” breaking into the orchestral mass, abashing any feelings that are not of heroic repentance. I simply love it. However, such strong personal preference creates rigid expectations of how {…}
The Macerata Opera Festival has announced its 2024 season, which will be dedicated to Giacomo Puccini and will celebrate its 60th anniversary. The season will open with Puccini’s “Turandot” starring Olga Maslova (Turandot), Angelo Villari (Calaf), Ruth Iniesta (Liù), Antonio Di Matteo (Timur), Lodovico Filippo Ravizza (Ping), Paolo Antognetti (Pang), and Francesco Pittari (Pong). The opera will be performed with {…}
The Teatro Regio di Parma is set to present performances on Classica HD from Dec. 8 to 10, 2023. The performances will be shown on Channel 136 on Sky. The first performance will be “Il Trovatore” in a production by Davide Livermore. Franco Vassallo, Francesca Dotto, Clementine Margaine, and Riccardo Massi star with Francesco Ivan Ciampa conducting. Boradcast Date: Dec. {…}
(Credit: Illustrazione di Pierpaolo Gaballo) The Festival Verdi is set to present Verdi’s fourth opera “I Lombardi alla prima Crociata.” After 14 years the work will be presented on Sept 21 through Oct. 15, 2023. The new production will be directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi with lighting design by Massimo Gasparon and choreography by Marco Berriel. Francesco Lanzillotta conducts the Filarmonica {…}
The Teatro Caro Felice has announced its 2023-24 season. Benjamin Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” opens the season with a cast that includes Christopher Ainslie, Sydney Mancasola, Matteo Anselmi, Scott Wilde, Kamelia Kader, Peter Kirk, John Chest, Hagar Sharvit, Keri Fuge, David Shipley, David Ireland, Seumas Begg, Sion Goronwy, Robert Burt, and Benjamin Bevan. Donato Renzetti conducts the production by Laurence Dale. Performance Dates: Oct. 13-19, 2023 Dante Ferretti directs Massenet’s “Werther” with Jean-François Borras, Jérôme {…}
The Festival Verdi has announced its 2023 season. Main Stage Productions The season opens with “I Lombardi alla prima Crociata” in a production by Pier Luigi Pizzi. Francesco Lanzillotta conducts a cast that includes Lidia Fridman as Giselda, Antonio Poli as Oronte, Michele Pertusi as Pagano, and Giovanni Sala as Arvino. Performance Dates: Sept. 21-Oct. 15, 2023 Franco Vassallo leads {…}
Italy’s Teatro Comunale di Sassari has announced its 2022 season. The season opens with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Sergio Alapont conducts a cast that includes Vincenzo Nizzardo (Don Giovanni), Francesca Pusceddu (Zerlina), Karen Gardeazabal (Donna Anna), Santiago Sanchez (Don Ottavio), Carmen Buendìa (Donna Elvira), Davide Giangregorio (Leporello), Alberto Petricca (Masetto), and Mariano Buccino. Paolo Gavazzeni and Piero Maranghi directs. Performance Dates: {…}