Carmela Remigio, Maria Viviani, Timoteo Bene Junior, Said Gobechiya Star in 2026 Vicenza in Lirica Festival

Vicenza in Lirica Festival announces 2026 lineup. Mozart’s “ The Marriage of Figaro” features Said Gobechiya, Erica Artina, Claudia Mavilia, Ignas Melnikas, Elisabetta Ricci, Maria Viviani, Huigang Liu, Fabio Sabadini, Agnese Funari, and Alberto Spadarotto. The Voc’è Choir and Colli Morenici Orchestra perform. Alberto Spadarotto is the choirmaster. Costumes are by Ester Campagnaro and Anna Fabris. Performance Date: Aug. 21, {…}

Sep 6, 2021

Vicenza in Lirica 2021 Review: Betulia Liberata

(Photo: Francesco Dalla Pozza) Vicenza in Lirica opened last season’s program with a successful performance of Vivaldi’s oratorio “Juditha Triumphans,” a story from the book of Judith contained in the Apocrypha. The city of Bethulia is surrounded by its Assyrian enemies, and its leaders are too frightened to react. Judith, therefore, takes matters into her own hands. She sneaks into {…}

Aug 11, 2021

Q & A: Soprano Martina Licari on Her Forthcoming Role Debut as Ismene at Vicenza In Lirica & How COVID Disrupted her Early Success

(Photo: Antonio Curti) The winner of the 2021 Tulio Serafin Opera Singing Competition, Martina Licari, is due to make her role debut as Ismene in two performances of Mozart’s “Mitridate, re di Ponto” at this season’s Vicenza in Lirica, starting 28th August, running until 12th September. Having graduated from the conservatory in Palermo in 2018, the young soprano appeared to {…}

Sep 11, 2019

Vicenza In Lirica Festival 2019 Review: Bacocco e Serpilla

With the development of of opera seria at the beginning of the 18th century, the comedic scenes so typical of 17th century Venetian opera lost their standing; lacking the seriousness and dignity of antiquity they were considered inappropriate to the classical tradition and abandoned. This in turn led to the rise of the intermezzo, a short comedy piece in two {…}