Sara Blanch, Carmela Remigio, Corinne Winters, Roberto Frontali Lead Caracalla Festival’s 2025 Season

(Credit: Fabrizio Sansoni) The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced its 2025 summer festival at the Caracalla. The festival, known as the Caracalla Festival, will take place between June 29 and August 7 under Damiano Michieletto’s artistic direction. The festival will showcase four productions. The season’s first production will be Händel’s “La Resurrezione.” George Petrou conducts the production by Ilaria {…}

Aug 10, 2024

Festival Valle d’Itria Festival 2024 Review: Ariodante

(Photo: Clarissa Lapolla) As the last notes of Ariodante’s aria “Dopo notte atra e funestra” died away, the audience sounded its approval with enthusiastic applause and loud cheering; some people were even on their feet. They were joined by the orchestra and its conductor, Federico Maria Sardelli, who was also applauding. And it showed no signs of abating, at least {…}

Jul 20, 2024

Teresa Iervolino Headlines Recital in Martina Franca

The Festival della Valle d’Itria is set to present a concert entitled “Notti d’estate” with Teresa Iervolino. The concert, which is set for July 20, will showcase the mezzo alongside pianist Andrea del Bianco. They will perform arias by Mercadante, Donizetti, and Berlioz as well as work from “Semiramide” by Rossini, “Carmen” by Bizet, and “Samson et Dalila” by Saint-Saëns. {…}

Jul 19, 2024

Cecilia Molinari to Headline Festival della Valle d’Itria’s ‘Ariodante’

The Festival della Valle d’Itria is set to present Händel’s “Ariodante.” The opera will be performed in a new edition by Bernardo Ticci with the ensemble Modo Antiquo conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli. Torsten Fischer will direct the new production which he describes as a modern reading. In a statement, Torsten added, “The fickleness of love, lust for power, diabolical {…}

Jun 8, 2024

Carolina López Moreno, Iván Ayón Rivas, Teresa Iervolino & Jessica Pratt Lead Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s 2024 Season

The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced its Fall 2024 season from September to December. Opera Teresa Iervolino leads Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” with Matteo D’Apolito, Patrick Kabongo, William Hernandez, and Marco Filippo Romano. Ginaluca Capuano conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 20-27, 2024 Daniele Gatti conducts Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with Carolina López Moreno, Piero Pretti, Vincenzo Costanzo, Marvic Monreal, and Nicola Alaimo headlining the cast. {…}

Jun 5, 2024

Eleonora Buratto, Jonathan Tetelman, Chiara Isotton & Liv Redpath Lead Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia’s 2024-25 Season

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia has announced its 2024-25 season. Concerts The season opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” starring Jonathan Tetelman, Eleonora Buratto, and Ludovic Tézier. Daniel Harding conducts. Performance Dates: Oct. 21-26, 2024 Semyon Bychkov conducts Bach’s “Mass in B Minor” with soloists Miriam Kutrowatz, Catriona Morison, Benjamin Bruns, and Christian Immler. Performance Dates: Nov. 14-16, 2024 Dalia Stasevska {…}

Apr 24, 2024

Fatma Said, Benjamin Bruns, Jonathan Tetelman & Eleonora Buratto Lead Berlin Philharmonic’s 2024-25 Season

The Berlin Philharmonic has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Jonathan Nott conducts pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Ernst Senff Chor Berlin choir in works by Missy Mazzoli, Peter Eötvös, and Charles Ives. Performance Dates: Sept. 7 & 8, 2024 Jakub Józef Orliński is joined by Aleksander Dębicz, Wojciech Gumiński, Marcin Ułanowski, and Mateusz {…}

Feb 19, 2024

Jacquelyn Wagner, Cecilia Molinari & Marco Ciaponi Lead Festival della Valle d’Itria di Martina Franca’s 2024 Season

The Festival della Valle d’Itria di Martina Franca is set to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2024. The festival will include three operas and will run from July 17 through August 6, 2024. Operas The festival will open with Bellini’s “Norma” in a new production conducted by Fabio Luisi. The cast will include Jacquelyn Wagner (Norma), Valentina Farcas (Adalgisa), Airam {…}

Oct 26, 2023

Veronika Dzhioeva, Amadi Lagha & Teresa Iervolino Lead Teatro Lirico di Cagliari’s 2024 Season

The Teatro Lirico di Cagliari has announced its 2024 season. Opera Fabio Ceresa directs a new production of Boito’s “Nerone” with a cast that includes Amadi Lagha, Konstantin Kipiani, Franco Vassallo, Abramo Rosalen, Valentina Boi, Rachele Stanisci, Deniz Uzun, Mariangela Marini, Roberto Frontali, Leon Kim, Dongho Kim, and Alessandro Abis. Francesco Cilluffo conducts. Performance Dates: Feb. 9-18, 2024 Veronika Dzhioeva, Murat Karahan, Dalibor Jenis, and {…}

Jun 25, 2023

Erika Grimaldi, James Newby & Anna Bonitatibus Lead Orquesta Ciudad de Granada’s 2023-24 Season

The Orquesta Ciudad de Granada has announced its 2023-24 season with numerous vocal performances. Here is a look. Maria J. Pacheco, Carmen Callejas, Juan M. Morales, Luis D. Barrios, Luis Ortega, and Rodrigo Navarro lead a Bach program with Ton Koopman conducting. Performance Date: Sept. 15, 2023 Mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus and violinist Kolja Blacher lead an Elgar evening with Joseph {…}

Mar 23, 2023

BCN Classics Announces 2023-24 Season

Barcelona’s BCN Classics has announced the 2023-24 season featuring a number of stars. For this article, we will focus on the sole vocal performance. Josep Vicent conducts the ADDA Simfònica Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Xavier Montsalvatge’s Spiritual song. The concert will star Erika Grimaldi, Teresa Iervolino, Airam Hernández, and José Antonio López. The concert will also feature {…}