Domenico Muti, an art administrator and the son of conductor Riccardo Muti, has announce the termination of his three-year contract as advisor to the Teatro La Fenice. In a letter to director of the Teatro La Fenice, Nicola Colabianchi, Muti said, “Unfortunately, the climate that has been created does not allow me to continue my work with the necessary composure. {…}
The Teatro La Fenice has announced that the 2026-27 New Year’s Eve concert will be conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Noseda will conduct the famed concert which will be held on Dec. 29, 30, 31, 2026 and Jan. 1, 2027 and will be broadcast live on Rai. Noseda is a well-known conductor who has performed at the many of the world’s {…}
(Credit: Michele Crosera) Genova, Italy’s sixth largest city, where the story of “Simon Boccanegra” unfolds, is rarely featured in opera. Despite its glorious history and stunning monuments, it barely registers with tourists visiting Italy. Many know it as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus (1451‑1506) and as the origin city for the culinary magic of garlic, pine nuts, basil leaves and {…}
The Teatro La Fenice’s New Year’s Eve concert is set to be presented on Rai 1 on Dec. 31, 2025. The concert will feature Michele Mariotti conducting with soloists soprano Rosa Feola and tenor Jonathan Tetelman. The concert will feature selections from Verdi’s “Nabucco,” Verdi’s “La Traviata,” Rossini’s “Semiramide,” Bellini’s “Norma,” Puccini’s “Le Villi,” Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale,” Verdi’s “I Vespri {…}
(Credit: Michele Crosera) The Teatro La Fenice is set to open its 2025-26 season with a production of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” on Nov. 20, 2025. The new production will be directed by Paul Curran and conducted by Ivor Bolton. The all-star cast will be led by Daniel Behle, who sings the role of Tito Vespasiano. He will be {…}
The Teatro La Fenice’s management has denied the theater’s workers’ representatives an opportunity to read a brief statement before the inauguration of the 2025-26 season on Nov. 20. The La Fenice Theatre Union informed the public and the press in a statement and called the action “another sign of an increasingly closed, authoritarian management structure impervious to dialogue.” The union {…}
The RSU of the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia has announced a protest on Nov. 10 at 3 p.m. that will start at the Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia and end at the Campo San Fantin, next to the Teatro La Fenice. The protest titled “Un passo dopo l’altro, la nostra voce,” was created to reaffirm the values of dialogue, {…}
The Teatro La Fenice was protested following a concert on Oct. 31, as audience members threw leaflets throughout the theater. The protest was due to the lack of transparency in the selection of the company’s new Music Director. This is the second time this has happened at the theater since the selection of Beatrice Venezi as the Music Director. The {…}
The Teatro La Fenice has canceled its opening night performance of Berg’s “Wozzeck” on Oct. 17 due to a strike caused by the election of Beatrice Venezi as the company’s new music director. The workers‘ unions of Teatro La Fenice announced the strike and stated it was in protest of Venezi’s new position. According to La Repubblica, the strike was {…}
Following protests from orchestra members of the Teatro La Fenice and numerous companies in Italy showing solidarity to the company for the election of Beatrice Venezi as the next Music Director of the Venice opera house, 140 subscribers have signed a letter in solidarity for the orchestra against Venezi’s appointment. In the letter, the subscribers said, “We write as season {…}
The Teatro La Fenice has come under fire for hiring Beatrice Venezi as the new Music Director. Workers announced on Friday that they will go on a permanent strike against this week’s appointment due Venezi’s close relationship to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government. According to Ansa.it, the workers declared “a permanent state of strike” and said they “reserve the right {…}
