Arte.TV is set stream Verdi’s “Requiem” from the Teatro alla Scala on Nov. 1, 2026. The platform will showcase the performance will be one of Riccardo Chailly’s final concerts as music director of the Milanese institution. The concert will include La Scala’s Orchestra alongside soloists soprano Anna Netrebko, mezzo-soprano Caterina Piva, tenor Antonio Poli, and bass Michele Pertusi. The requiem {…}
The Teatro San Carlo has announced its 2026-27 season. Mariangela Sicilia, Marta Torbidoni, Piotr Beczała, Stefan Pop, Igor Golovatenko, Franco Vassallo, Michele Pertusi, Gabriele Sagona, Martina Belli, and Marko Mimica star in Verdi’s “Luisa Miller.” Daniel Oren conducts the production by Davide Livermore. Performance Dates: Dec. 2-10, 2026 Anna Pirozzi, Karah Son, Jorge de León, Giorgio Berrugi, Veronica Simeoni, Chiara Tirotta, Marco {…}
On May 29, La Scala TV is set to present a livestream of Verdi’s “Nabucco.” The live stream will feature a new production by Alessandro Talevi with Riccardo Chailly conducting the opera in a version that includes the divertissements composed by Verdi in 1848. The cast will be led by Luca Salsi as Nabucco and Anna Netrebko as Abigaille. The {…}
Rarely has a single performance so cornered the discographic record of an opera as Claudio Abbado’s “Simon Boccanegra” from 1977. And my use of the possessive is, in this case, far from aleatory: Abbado lays claim to the score with an authority scarcely less than Verdi’s own—or would Hugo Shirley otherwise have spoken in superlatives so unsparingly when Gramophone revisited {…}
The Teatro San Carlo is set to present Verdi’s “Nabucco” in a production by Andreas Homoki. The production will be shown from Jan. 18 to 31, 2026 and will be conducted by Riccardo Frizza. Ludovic Tézier will take on the title role alongside Marina Rebeka as Abigaille. They will be joined by Piero Pretti as Ismaele and Michele Pertusi as {…}
Welcome back for the first edition of 2026’s CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. The year kicks off with star-studded new releases including a new Verdi recording and an Offenbach opera that features some of today’s greatest performers. Luigi Gordigiani: Romantic Florence – Songs For Voice And Piano Dynamic releases mezzo-soprano Marina Comparato’s latest album. She is {…}
The Arena di Verona has announced its 2026 season. The season will open with a new production of Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Michele Spotti and Francesco Ivan Ciampa conduct the new production starring Martina Russomanno, Gilda Fiume and Rosa Feola. The casts also include Yusif Eyvazov, Galeano Salas, Francesco Meli, René Barbera, Adam Smith, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Mihai Damian, Youngjun Park, Ludovic {…}
(Credit: Monika Rittershaus) “La Forza del Destino” has always been considered a transitional work in Giuseppe Verdi’s output, bridging the purely romantic operas of his early period and the mature works where his musical language became more dramatic, direct, and personal. It was composed on a commission from the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, where it premiered in 1862. The {…}
(Photo: Brescia e Amisano) It is rather curious that one of the most emblematic titles in the operatic canon has been staged so rarely on such an iconic stage as Teatro alla Scala: “Norma” by Vincenzo Bellini, which had its world premiere there in 1831 with Giuditta Pasta in the title role. That said, the few times it has returned {…}
The Teatro alla Scala is set to stream Bellini’s “Norma” on La Scala tv. The stream will be showcased on July 4, 2025, and will star Marina Rebeka in the title role, Freddie De Tommaso as Pollione, Michele Pertusi as Oroveso, and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya as Adalgisa. Fabio Luisi will conduct the new production by Olivier Py. “Norma” has not been {…}
(Photo: Dario Acosta) The winners of the 2025 Premio Illica have been announced. The lifetime achievement award was given to Pier Luigi Pizzi, while Michele Pertusi was recognized with the Male award in Lyric singing. The Female award for Lyric singing was given to Eleonora Buratto. The award for journalism and music criticism was given to Angelo Foletto while Giovanni {…}