Verdi's Rigoletto as seen by Italian director Alessio Pizzech, who directed this staging in 2016 at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, returns to the TCBO stage from March 19 to 30, 2019. Genoa-born conductor Matteo Beltrami, Musical Director of Teatro Coccia in Novara from 2016, will conduct Rigoletto in...
Franz Schreker’s masterpiece, Der Ferne Klang (The Distant Sound) is returning to the Frankfurt Opera, where it premiered in 1912, and where it has been missing since 1945. The show is to open on Sunday 31 March 2019, at 6pm. The new production is by...
Double-debut for Lisette Oropesa on Saturday 2nd of March: the Cuban-American soprano will sing at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona for the first time and will also make her role-debut in the title role in Handel's Rodelinda. Claus Guth will direct this Baroque masterpiece, with...
Following the huge success of the complete CD recording of Semiramide, recently released by Opera Rara in collaboration with Warner, Daniela Barcellona returns to sing the en travesti role of Arsace in Rossini's two-acts masterpiece at the ABAO-OLBE in Bilbao. The last opera expressly composed by Rossini...
Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore, as seen by American director Robert Wilson, will open Teatro Comunale di Bologna's Season 2019 on January 22 (live broadcast on Radio3 Rai). Israeli conductor Pinchas Steinberg will lead TCBO Orchestra and Choir. The cast includes tenor Riccardo Massi as Manrico, Chinese soprano Guanqun...
Following her debut in Turandot (Liù), in Maometto II (Anna) and in Pagliacci (Nedda), and following her success in La Bohème (Mimì), in Norma (Adalgisa) and in Maria Stuarda (Elisabetta), Carmela Remigio returns to Teatro dell’Opera di Roma to debut as Giovanna Seymour in Gaetano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. The opera – that will be staged in a new...
Damiano Michieletto’s ninth production at La Fenice in Venice is Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth, opening the 2018/2019 season. The show comes after the successful productions of Roméo et Juliette, of the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy, of Rake’s Progress, Magic Flute, Aquagranda, and The Merry Widow, and will be running from Friday 23 November. On stage...
Following Anna Bolena in 2015 – for which she won the Premio Abbiati Award as Best Singer – and after the Messa da Requiem in 2017, Carmela Remigio returns to the Donizetti Opera Festival with a new debut: on November 24 at Bergamo’s Teatro Sociale she will indeed embody...
Italian conductor Michele Mariotti is returning to the Paris Opéra to conduct the first new production of the 2018-2019 season. The French capital had previously seen Mariotti, conduct I Puritani in 2013 and La Traviata in 2016. On Friday 28 September at the Opéra Bastille...
Following his success in Florence and Ravenna under the baton of Riccardo Muti, Luca Salsi will be once more Macbeth in Verdi’s namesake opera for the opening of the Festival Verdi 2018. The opera – on stage at the Teatro Regio di Parma on September 27,...