On Nov. 29, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino canceled its Puccini celebration “Puccini racconta Puccini.” The company said that due to the national strike, it was forced to cancel its concert. The concert was set to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini’s passing and included Puccini’s “Crisantemi,” “Preludio a orchestra,” “Preludio sinfonico in A major,” “Capriccio sinfonico,” Le villi’s “Tregenda,” {…}
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced a change for its “Norma” production during the 2025 season. The company said, “The Teatro del Maggio informs the kind audience that the production of Vincenzo Bellini’s ‘Norma,’ scheduled for next March during the 2025 Season, will no longer be the announced revival of the play directed by Moshe Leisier and Patrice Caurier for {…}
(Credit: Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced its 2025 season. Stefano Ranzani conducts a production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” by Davide Livermore. Celso Albelo, Daniel Luis de Vicente, Leon Kim, Olga Peretyatko, Alessio Cacciamani, and Eleonora Filipponi star. Performance Dates: Feb. 16-23, 2025 Michele Spotti conducts Bellini’s “Norma” in a production by Moshe Leisier and Patrice Caurier. Jessica Pratt, {…}
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced its Fall 2024 season from September to December. Opera Teresa Iervolino leads Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” with Matteo D’Apolito, Patrick Kabongo, William Hernandez, and Marco Filippo Romano. Ginaluca Capuano conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 20-27, 2024 Daniele Gatti conducts Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with Carolina López Moreno, Piero Pretti, Vincenzo Costanzo, Marvic Monreal, and Nicola Alaimo headlining the cast. {…}
Carlos Fuortes, the recently named superintendent of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, has been sentenced to one to four years over the accidental death of a theatre worker at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in 2017. A Rome court also ruled that there would be a 220,000 euro penalty for violation of the legislation on safety at work. The penalty would {…}
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced a new superintendent. The Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, signed the decree appointing Carlo Fuortes as the new superintendent of the Fondazione del Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. In a statement, Minister Sangiuliano said, “I wish Superintendent Fuortes well in his work. With his mandate, he is called upon to re-launch one of the nation’s {…}
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has released a statement regarding the fake news that appeared this morning regarding the death of Zubin Mehta. The company said, “A very big fake news! In the last few minutes a fake news has been spreading on the web, shared by uninformed and which we immediately mark as vulgar and inappropriate: the death of maestro {…}
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced its 2023-24 season. Opera The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème” conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti. The cast includes Mariangela Sicilia as Mimì, Gaelano Salas as Rodolfo, Min Kim as Marcello, William Hernandez as Schaunard, Francesco Leone as Colline, Elisa Balbo as Musetta, and Davide Piva as Benoit/Alcindoro. Performance Dates: Nov. 14-29, 2023 The company {…}
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced a conductor change for its upcoming performance of “Carmina Burana.” The company said, “We would like to inform the kind audience that the ‘Carmina Burana’ performance, scheduled for July 13, 2023, in the Zubin Mehta Hall, will be conducted by maestro Andrea Battistoni, replacing maestro Paolo Carignani.” Battistoni has conducted at the Bayerische Staatsoper, {…}
Police has confiscated over €126,000 from Alexander Pereira. Per Platea and Puls 24, the police confiscated the euros during an investigation into embezzlement of money during Pereira’s time as general director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Per the reports, Pereira used the foundation’s credit card “for private non-contractual expenses,” including relocations, hotel stays, and plane or helicopters flights. Moreover, Pereira {…}
Thirteen singers are considering legal action against the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino after the company canceled a production of “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” just six weeks before rehearsals. In a letter to cast members dated March 21, 2023, Maggio wrote of the “situation of unpredictable emergency’ facing the Foundation stating ‘production costs (of Die Meistersinger) are no longer sustainable for the {…}