The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has reported that its stream of Verdi and Boito’s “Otello,” presented on Nov. 30, was viewed by 70,000 on Rai 1. The opera starred Fabio Sartori, Marina Rebeka, and Luca Salsi in a new production by Valerio Binasco. Zubin Mehta conducted the opera which also starred Riccardo Della Sciucca as Cassio, Caterina Piva as Emilia, and {…}
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 {…}
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced that it will stream Haydn’s “The Creation” on Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. local time. The stream will showcase soloists Michael Volle, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Veta Pilipenko, and Maximilian Schmitt conducted by Zubin Mehta. The Italian theater will stream it on the company’s social media channels and on Agenzia Ansa’s YouTube page. The concert will {…}
This week, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is set to open “Nabucco,” the work that put Verdi on the map and is regarded as one of his early masterpieces. At the core of the opera is the challenging role of Abigaille, which requires a soprano who can sing both very low and very high with dramatic force and is also capable {…}
(Credit: Koichi Miura/Metropolitan Opera) Conductor James Levine is set to return to the stage in 2020-21. The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in announcing its 2020-21 season, revealed that Levine would be leading a production of “La Damnation de Faust” with Michael Spyres, Marianne Crebassa, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, as well as concert performances of Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” and Mozart symphonies. The {…}
Francesco Meli is set to perform at the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in a live streamed concert on June 7, 2020. The showcase, which will be streamed in collaboration with Idagio, will feature the tenor with the Maggio Musicale’s chorus and orchestra conducted by Marco Armiliato. There will be no audience in the auditorium. To watch the concert audiences will {…}
After the Metropolitan Opera presented an at home gala, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino announced it would also showcase its own similar event with some of the greatest artists around the world. The Maggio Musicale is not as famous as the New York theater but it is currently run by Alexander Periera, one of the most popular and influential General directors {…}
Over the last month we have seen companies shift from canceling their seasons, to getting on the streaming bus, to now starting to bring opera stars together for major concerts. The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s own showcase is here on May 1 and here is everything that you need to know about it. What The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is set to {…}
(Credit: Jason Homa/Javier del Real/Jiyang Chen) The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced an at home concert featuring some of the world’s greatest opera stars. The concert on May 1, which was organized by the company’s sovrintendente Alexander Pereira, will showcase Cecilia Bartoli, Vittorio Grigolo, Roberto Alagna, Diana Damrau, Ludovic Tézier, Francesco Meli, Lisette Oropesa, Luca Salsi, Thomas Hampson, Krassimira Stoyanova, {…}
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced its 2019-20 season featuring rarely staged works and some of the most popular in the repertory. Spontini’s “Fernando Cortez” opens the season with Fabio Luisi conducting the new production by Cecilia Ligorio. The production stars Dario Schmunck in the title role as well as Alexia Voulgaridou. Performance Dates: Oct. 12-23, 2019 Marina Comparato and Karina Demurova sin {…}
Wagner’s “DerFliegende Holländer” was one of the more eagerly awaited new productions of the Maggio Musicale, Fiorentina’s 2018-19 season. Not only is it one of only three Wagner productions scheduled for the season throughout the whole of Italy (the other two being productions of “Die Walküre” in Naples and Bari), but it also marks Fabio Luisi’s Italian Wagner debut. True {…}
