(Credit: Yasuko Kageyama-Teatro dell’Opera di Rom) The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced that it will present “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” on New Year’s Eve. After the success of the company’s streamed production on Dec. 5, Rai 5 will rebroadcast the Rossini masterpiece at 21:15 local time. Daniele Gatti conducted the opera in a production by famed filmmaker and opera {…}
The Teatro dell’opera di Romas has announced its December programming for its Teatro Digitale. The theater announced that in addition to the opening night production of “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” the company will present three concerts via its YouTube channel. The series opens with Daniele Gatti conducting Bach’s Overture No. 2 for flute and orchestra with Matteo Evangelisti, Ravel’s “Le {…}
(Credit: Yasuko Kageyama- Teatro dell’Opera di Roma) The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced that it will open its 2020-21 season with a filmed version of “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” The company announced that the new production by Mario Martone will be performed without an audience and will be streamed on Rai 5 on Dec. 5 and on New Year’s {…}
The Deutsche Oper Berlin has long been a mecca for iconoclast regie theater directors ranging from Hans Neuenfels and Claus Guth to Ole Anders Tandberg, whose recent staging of “Carmen” had more viscera on the stage than verismo. Curiously, the extant production of “La Traviata” by the former Deutsche Oper Intendant Götz Friedrich, dating back to 1999, is surprisingly uncontroversial. In his {…}
