Danylo Matviienko, Carolina Lopez Moreno, Gregory Kunde, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Erika Grimaldi, Johanni van Oostrum Lead Teatro Regio di Torino’s 2026-27 Season

The Teatro Regio di Torino has announced its 2026-27 season. The season opens with Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” and Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” with Francesco Micheli directing Leoncavallo and Daniele Menghini directing Mascagni. Leoncavallo’s work will star Carolina Lopez Moreno, Maria Teresa Leva, Martin Muehle, Carlo Ventre, Gregory Kunde, Ariun Ganbaatar, Fabián Veloz, Matteo Mezzaro, Matteo Falcier, Joshua Hopkins, and Rodion Pogossov while {…}

Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires 2026 Review: Pagliacci & Cavalleria Rusticana

(Credit: Juanjo Bruzza) To launch its 2026 season, the venerable Teatro Colón made a bold programming choice: presenting the quintessential verismo double bill, but with a structural twist. Inverting the traditional performance order, Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” served as the curtain-raiser, followed by Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana,” effectively kicking off the theater’s seven-title operatic lineup. At first glance, staging these two brief iconic {…}

Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Review: Soirées musicales / La cambiale di matrimonio

(Photo: Amati Bacciardi / ROF 2025) Soirées musicales After the triumph of his last opera, “Guillaume Tell,” Gioachino Rossini decided to abandon theatrical composition and retire to his home in Paris to recover from nervous exhaustion. Even so, he never stopped writing music: he composed for himself, for Olympe Pélissier–whom he married in 1846 after the death of Isabella Colbran–and {…}