The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced that it will broadcast Verdi’s “Otello” on Nov. 30. The Italian house will showcase a new production by Valerio Binasco and conducted by Zubin Mehta on Rai Cultura’s Rai5. The opera will star Fabio Sartori in his role debut as Otello and Marina Rebeka as Desdemona, also in her role debut. Luca Salsi rounds out the {…}
Luca Salsi has canceled his upcoming engagements at the Teatro alla Scala and Teatro Regio di Parma due to back pain and sciatica. In a statement via social media, the baritone announced the news saying, “I regret to tell you that I have been forced to stop for a while due to the sudden onset of agonizing lower back pain {…}
The Wexford Festival Opera has announced that it will team up with RTÉ and ARTE to bring opera to audiences in Ireland and worldwide. The festival will run between Oct. 11-18 and features performances by Lisette Oropesa, Antonio Pappano, Angela Meade, Celine Byrne, Ermonela Jaho, Aigul Akhmetshina, Simone Alberghini, Nicola Alaimo, Daniela Barcellona, Joseph Calleja, Roberto de Candia, Paolo Bordogna, Helena {…}
The Teatro alla Scala has announced a revamped fall season. Riccardo Chailly conducts Verdi’s Requiem with Tamara Wilson, Elīna Garanča, Francesco Meli, and Ildar Abdrazakov. Performance Dates: Sept. 4-9, 2020 Zubin Mehta is set to conduct concert performances of Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Marina Rebeka, Atalla Ayan, and Leo Nucci. Performance Dates: Sept. 15-25, 2020 Riccardo Chailly conducts Verdi’s “Aida” starring {…}
The Teatro la Fenice is set to present two recitals with some of the world’s greatest male voices in opera. On July 22, Alex Esposito will perform a program with arias from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and “Le Nozze di Figaro,” Verdi’s “Macbeth,” “Simon Boccanegra,” and “Don Carlo,” Gounod’s “Faust,” Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust,” Boito’s Mefistofele,” and Offenbach’s “Les Contes {…}
(Credit: Cory Weaver/Metropolitan Opera) The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced a cast change for its upcoming “Rigoletto.” The company announced that Roberto Frontali will take over the title role in Verdi’s masterpiece for Luca Salsi. In a statement, Salsi noted that on July 6 he lost his voice and was told to not sing for seven days. He added {…}
(Credit: Marco Borrelli) Back in March at the height of the Pandemic, OperaWire stopped writing Artist of the Week profiles as every opera house was shut down. Now with theaters reopening in Europe, OperaWire will resume its Artist of the Week series highlighting one artist a week. This week marks the reopening of the Teatro alla Scala nearly four months {…}
(Credit: Theo Gosselin/Andrea Torres Balaguer, persimmon, 2018) FRA Cinema has announced the 2020-21 cinema season for the Opéra de Paris. The season will include previously recorded performances and live performances. The season begins with Massenet’s “Manon” starring Pretty Yende and Benjamin Bernheim. The production, which was the final production of the 2019-20 season at the Opéra de Paris also stars {…}
The Fonadazione Teatri di Piacenza has announced a Verdi Gala. The concert, which marks the first in the Emilia Romagna region in Italy since the lockdown, will be held on July 4 outside of the Palazzo Farnese. The performance will showcase Francesco Meli and Luca Salsi accompanied by Davide Cavalli in music from Verdi’s “Don Carlo,” “La Forza del Destino,” {…}
The Teatro alla Scala has announced its reopening program. The famed Italian house reopens on July 6 with a concert featuring baritone Luca Salsi accompanied by Beatrice Rana. They will be joined by legendary cellist Mischa Maisky in a program of arias and chamber music. On July 8, Francesco Meli and Federica Lombardi will share the stage with violinist Patricia {…}
The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced its summer season at Circo Massimo. The season, which open on July 16 and runs through August 13, begins with Verdi’s “Rigoletto” conducted by Daniele Gatti in a new production by Damiano Michieletto. The opera will star Iván Ayón Rivas as the Duca di Mantova, Luca Salsi as Rigoletto, Rosa Feola as Gilda, Riccardo Zanellato as Sparafucile, {…}
