(Credits: Fay Fox / © In Art Artists Management) Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced that it will livestream a performance of Verdi’s Messa di Requiem on April 18, 2021. The performance was recorded on March 27, 2021 and will be showcased on the Teatro Massimo WebTV at 8 p.m. CET. The performance will spotlight soprano Joyce El-Khoury, mezzosoprano Martina {…}
(Credits: Fay Fox / DR) The Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced that it will present a livestream concert on March 20, 2021 at 8 p.m. CET. The stream will be available on the Teatro Massimo WebTv. The performance will star soprano Angela Meade, mezzo-soprano Marianna Pizzolato, tenor Enea Scala, and baritone Nicola Alaimo. Francesco Lanzillotta will conduct the Teatro {…}
The Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced it will begin streaming “Torneranno i bei momenti” from March 4 through March 6. The new opera film will feature music by Mozart and will showcase six artists stuck in a theater as they relate their experience of not being able to leave. The experimental work will be conducted by Omer Meir Wellber {…}
(Credit: Dario Acosta) In the fall of 2020 Eleonora Buratto made a trimuphant role debut as Elvira in Verdi’s “Ernani.” The soprano’s performance at the Verdi Festival were one of the few opportunities for Buratto (and almost any singer) to perform for a live audience. Critics raved about her “stylistic purity” and her “intensity.” There seemed to be hope at {…}
(Credits: Alessandro Moggi / Julian Hargreaves / Opéra National de Paris official website) Teatro Massimo di Palermo is set to live stream a production of Giuseppe Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave’s opera “Ernani” on Feb. 26, 2021 at 8 p.m. CET. The opera will star Eleonora Buratto in the role of Elvira, Simone Piazzola as Don Carlos, Michele Pertusi in {…}
(Credits: Cory Weaver / Francesco Luciani) Teatro Massimo di Palermo will be live streaming the opening of its 2021 season with the performance of the complex, site-specific opera “Il Crepuscolo dei Sogni.” The opera includes music from Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Modest Mussorgsky, Arrigo Boito, Richard Strauss, {…}
(Credits: Salzburger Festspiele official website / Allegorica Opera Management official website / Askonas Holt official website) The Teatro Massimo di Palermo will livestream its concert on Jan. 31, 2021. Mezzosoprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, tenor Giulio Pelligra and bass Alexandros Stavrakakis will perform a program that includes Sergej Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D major op. 25, and Igor Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella.” Gabriele {…}
(Credit: Gregor Hohenberg/Sony Music) France has announced the traditional New Year’s list of honors. La Grande Chancellerie de la Légion d’honneur has published the full list of recipients. Among those awarded is the celebrated tenor Roberto Alagna, thus becoming the Officer of Légion d’honneur . The famed tenor recently debuted the title role of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” at the Staatsoper Berlin. {…}
(Credit: Jean Philippe Raibaud) The Teatro Massimo di Palermo is set to present a New Year’s Eve concert featuring Carmen Giannattasio and Markus Werba. The concert is set to be streamed on the Italian company’s Teatro Massimo WebTV and will feature music by Haydn, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Spontini, Lehar, Le Gaz Spoliansky, and De Curtis. Omer Meir Wellber will conduct {…}
The Teatro Massimo di Palermo is set to present Verdi’s Requiem with Riccardo Muti conducting. The legendary conductor will lead a cast that includes Joyce El-Khoury, Martina Belli, Saimir Pirgu, and Riccardo Zanellato. The concert will be presented on Dec. 4 and 5, shortly after lockdown measures in Italy expire on Nov. 24. Muti is set is also set to {…}
(Credit: Jason Daniel Shaw) The Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced that the recital of Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci scheduled for Nov. 15, 2020 has been redesigned due to the ongoing concerns over COVID-19. The new program will include Tosti’s “Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta,” Ottorino Respighi’s “Liriche,” “Venezia” by Reynaldo Hahn, and Francis Poulenc’s “La voix humaine.” Donald Sulzen will {…}