The Teatro Sociale di Rovigo has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Mozart’s “Così fan tutte,” featuring a production by Stefano Vizioli and Jordi Bernàcer conducting. The cast includes Irina Lungu, Francesca Di Sauro, Biagio Pizzuti, Andrew Kim, Paola Gardina, and Maurizio Muraro. Performance Dates: Oct. 17 & 19, 2025 The second work of the season will be {…}
(Photo: Clarissa Lapolla) As the last notes of Ariodante’s aria “Dopo notte atra e funestra” died away, the audience sounded its approval with enthusiastic applause and loud cheering; some people were even on their feet. They were joined by the orchestra and its conductor, Federico Maria Sardelli, who was also applauding. And it showed no signs of abating, at least {…}
The Festival della Valle d’Itria is set to present Händel’s “Ariodante.” The opera will be performed in a new edition by Bernardo Ticci with the ensemble Modo Antiquo conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli. Torsten Fischer will direct the new production which he describes as a modern reading. In a statement, Torsten added, “The fickleness of love, lust for power, diabolical {…}
Italy’s CortinAteatro is set to present Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” on August 12, 2021. The opera, which will be presented at the Alexander Girardi Hall di Cortina d’Ampezzo, is a co-production with Musincantus, Fondazione Cassamarca, and the Orchestra Regionale Filarmonia Veneta. The cast will be headed by Paola Gardina as Rosina and Francisco Brito as Almaviva. Meanwhile, Biagio Pizzuti {…}
(Credits: Sandrine Expilly / Bertie Watson) The Gramophone has announced its 2020 Awards. The top Opera recording went to the Erato’s release of Handel’s “Agrippina”, featuring Joyce DiDonato, Elsa Benoit, Luca Pisaroni, Franco Fagioli, Jakub Józef Orliński, Andrea Mastroni, Carlo Vistoli, Biagio Pizzuti, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux. Maxim Emelyanychev conducted the Il Pomo d’Oro orchestra. Sandrine Piau received the Recital prize {…}