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 {…}
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has extended the lockdown until May 3, resulting in the closure of all Italian theaters. Italy was originally expected to open on April 13 but due the coronavirus and the the fatality totaling 18,849, more than any other country, Conte decided to extend. He stated, extending for another three weeks is “a difficult but necessary {…}
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced that it will reschedule performances of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” The company announced that the canceled performances scheduled from Feb. 24 through March 1 due to the coronavirus outbreak will be rescheduled for October 2020. In a press release the Comunale stated that the performances will be rescheduled as follows: Feb. 25 performance will {…}
(Photo: Rocco Casaluci) Of all the operas ever written possibly none explores the unconscious drive of love with such a stark and uncompromising vision as Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” It is not a love tainted by the individual psychologies of its participants, their behavior is not an outcome of a deeper pathology, or molded by the past events which have {…}