On November 21, 2024, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle hosted the opening concert of the five-day Viva Napoli festival, featuring the modern premiere of Leonardo Vinci’s Oratorio per la Madonna del Rosario after three hundred years’ obscurity. Composed for the annual Rosary Sunday celebrations established by Pope Gregory XIII to commemorate the Holy League’s 1571 victory over the Ottomans at Lepanto, Vinci’s Oratorio {…}
(Photo: Michele Crosera) Having laughed, smiled and clapped its way through the opening night of Teatro La Fenice’s production of Vivaldi’s “Bajazet,” the audience greeted the artists at the final curtain with warm applause. However, it was not a reaction shared by everyone; the final notes had barely been played before some members of the audience were beating their way {…}
Photo credit: Marco Caselli Nirmal Vivaldi’s “Orlando Furioso” is a work that represents baroque opera at its most exciting. Set on Alcina’s magical island, where the weird and wonderful are commonplace, it opens up the possibility for colorful and spectacular stagings with shipwrecks, fantastical beasts, monsters and statues that come to life. There are high mountains, wooded groves, steep cliffs {…}
Modena’s Teatro Comunale Pavarotti-Freni has announced its 2023-24 season. Opera The season opens with Giordano’s “Fedora” in a new production by Pier Luigi Pizzi. Aldo Sisillo conducts a cast that includes Teresa Romano, Yuliya Tkachenko, Luciano Ganci, and Simone Piazzola. Performance Dates: Oct. 13 & 15, 2023 Verdi’s “Don Carlo” will be performed in four acts in a production by {…}
Germany’s Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the operatic and vocal performances. Premieres Verdi’s “Nabucco” will get a new production by Thaddeus Strassberger. Yura Yang conducts. Premiere Date: Oct. 21, 2023 Strauss’ “Die schweigsame Frau” will be conducted by Georg Fritzsch and directed by Mariame Clément. Premiere Date: Dec. 19, 2023 Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” will {…}
The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe has announced its 2022-23 season featuring six premieres and several revivals. Premieres Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer” with Georg Fritzsch conducting and Ludger Engels directing. Premiere Date: Dec. 10, 2022 Yura Yang conducts Bizet’s “Carmen” in a new production by Immo Karaman. Premiere Date: Jan. 21, 2023 Regie Carlos Wagner directs Händel’s “Ottone, Re di Germania” with {…}
The Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy has announced its 43rd season which will take place between August 9 and 21, 2022 and will feature two new productions. The Festival will be inaugurated at the Vitrifrigo Arena with “Le Comte Ory” conducted by Diego Matheuz with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and the Chorus of the Teatro Ventidio Basso. {…}
The Teatro Coccia in Novara, Italy has announced its 2021-22 fall season. The season opens with Mini Opere. The first work that will be presented is “Boccacio Delivery Ovvero la Vendetta di Cisti Fornaio” by Alberto Cara. The production will be directed by Salvatore Sito and conducted by Carlo Emilio Tortarolo. The opera will star Federica Vinci and Andrea Tabili. {…}
(Credit: Michele Crosera) The director for Teatro La Fenice’s production of Vivaldi’s “Farnace,” Christophe Gayral observed in his program notes that “the music for some of the arias is strangely sometimes not completely related to the narrative, the music is light while the situation is dark.” While this is undoubtedly true, it does not act against the work as a {…}
The Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona has announced a star-studded 2021-22 season with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, soloists, and choruses. Here is a look at the vocal and choral performances. The Cor Lieder Càmera and Josep Vila i Casañasperformworksby Bach, Brahms, Duruflé, Gasull, Morera, Ollé, Vila i Casañas, and Vaughan-Williams. Performance Date: Sept. 19, 2021 Joyce {…}
The Teatro La Fenice has announced programming for June 2 through Oct. 31, 2021. The company will present five productions and six concerts featuring some of the world’s greatest artists. All events will be open to the public and will follow all rigorous COVID-19 protocols. Gounod’s “Faust“ will open the theater in a new production by Joan Anton Rechi. Frédéric {…}