The Teatro Comunale di Bologna will make history by naming Oksana Lyniv as the first Female Music Director for an Italian Opera company. The conductor will assume the new position in January 2022 for the next three years. She will conduct at least two operas and two concerts per season. Lyniv made her debut with the Orchestra del Comunale in {…}
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Italy has announced a new Chorus Master. The company revealed that Gea Garatti Ansini will succeed Alberto Malazzi, who will conclude his tenure with the company following the August 12 performance of “La Bohème.” Anisni has worked with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, and {…}
Italy’s Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced its fall 2021 season. The season opens with Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi. The cast will include Cesar Cortez and Pablo Martinez sharing the count with Paola Leguizamon as Rosina, Marco Filippo Romano as Bartolo, Roberto De Candia as Figaro, and Andrea Concetti as Basilio. Performance Dates: Oct. 17-23, 2021 Kristine Opolais leads {…}
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced a new Web TV. The new channel was created in order to give audiences a variety of content and to create more profound discussions. The idea is to create narrative formats hosting personalities from the musical and theatrical world. The conversations will be integrated with backstage and rehearsal footage or performance footage. The {…}
(Credits: © Carmine Maringola / © Gregor Hohenberg / Sony Classical / Erwin Schrott / Dario Acosta / Francesco Squeglia) Italian television channel Rai5 has announced broadcasts for the week of Jan. 18 – Jan. 22, 2021. The broadcasts will be dedicated to the director Emma Dante’s opera stagings. The only opera in the slate that was not directed by {…}
(Credit: Tatyana Vlasova) The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced that it will present its new production of Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur” as a film. The new production by Rosetta Cucchi will star Kristine Opolais in her role debut and will be aired on Rai 5 on March 11. The production was originally set to premiere in May 2020 but was {…}
Following the closure of theaters around European numerous protests were staged outside major theaters Among the theaters that saw protests included the Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro alla Scala, and Gran Teatre del Liceu. According to the Bayerische Staatsoper’s social media pages employees and members of all Munich theaters demonstrated with a human chain through the city center {…}
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced that a member of the women’s chorus has tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, the company began performing its current run of “Madama Butterfly” without a women’s chorus. The superintendent Fulvio Macciardi noted that the company is still performing because he believes the theater is still a safe place and is being {…}
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has revealed a new autumn season at the Paladozza, the basketball stadium in Bologna, Italy. For this article, we will focus on the operatic performances. Opera The autumn season opens with a semi-staged production of Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” with Maria Rita Combattelli, Beatriz de Sousa Chaveiro, Klodjan Kacani, César Arrieta, Alberto Bonifazio, Jacobo Ochoa Piedrahita, {…}
The Teatro Comunale of Bologna has announced it could perform its upcoming season in a basketball arena. According to the Corriere di Bologna, the company would perform at the famed PalaDozza in response to the coronavirus crisis and in order to accommodate an audience of about one thousand. It would result in no basketball next season. Bologna’s head of culture {…}
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced a summer season featuring several concert performances. For this article, we will only highlight concerts with opera excerpts or vocal performances. Michele Mariotti opens the summer with a concert featuring music from Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” as well as music by Beethoven and Mozart. Performance Date: June 26, 2020 Juraj Valčuha conducts Wagner’s {…}