Following Die Zauberfloete at Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the Gala at the Dutch National Opera, Paolo Fanale returns on the stage of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich as Ferrando in Mozart's masterpiece Così fan tutte. Performances 20 - 22 -24 November. www.staatsoper.de ...
Michele Mariotti leads the Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino on Friday 13th November at 8 PM, in a concert dedicated to Schubert’s and Fauré’s music. «I’m coming back to Florence after five years – says Michele Mariotti – with a composer such as Franz Schubert, who has always held a fundamental role in my career. I’m conducting ‘The Great’, a symphony where I can already find anticipations to those poignant, deep and bittersweet Mahlerian atmospheres that...
Following Turandot’s success, the Season of the Royal Opera House Muscat continues with Don Quixote, a ballet classic from Miguel de Cervantes’ celebrated novel. The Cuban National Ballet will perform on the ROHM stage on 29th, 30th and 31st of October. Coreography: Alicia Alonso. Giovanni Duarte will be conducting the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra....
Following his concerts in Turin and Bergamo, Michele Mariotti is returning with “his” orchestra to the Teatro Manzoni in Bologna on Thursday 5 November (at 8.30pm) with a debut program focusing on two essential and celebrated works from the German repertoire. During the first part of the concert he will interpret, together with pianist Roberto Cominati, Johannes Brahms’ Concerto No. 1 in D minor Op. 15; while during the second part he will conduct Ludwig...
Ambrogio Meatri returns to sing Dottor Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore directed by Laurent Pelly at the Opéra Bastille. Donato Renzetti will be conducting. Performances from the 2nd to the 25th of November...
Beginning on 15 November, Richard Strauss will once again be protagonist on the stage of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna with his Elektra. It’s the Freudian representation on a female character who dies in the delirium of a Dionysian dance. Strauss’ masterpiece is the culmination of the composer’s expressionist period, where harmonic paroxysm and extreme chromaticism reach a sort of point of no return. Set around the 1940s, an ideal period to give Sophocles’ immortal themes a tragic resonance through grey...
The opera is gloomy, filled with ambition, evil, witches and conspiracies. Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth is returning on the stage of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna beginning 6 October 2015. The show, directed by Robert Wilson and conducted by Roberto Abbado, opened the 2013 Season, collecting audience and critics appreciation. The cast of singers is almost unvaried, except for the role of Lady Macbeth, interpreted by soprano Amarilli Nizza, and that of Macduff, performed by Lorenzo...
Olga Peretyatko is the protagonist of the documentary film that Rai Cultura broadcasts on September 24th at 10.15 p.m. on Rai5. www.rai.it ...
Turandot, Giacomo Puccini's unfinished masterpiece, is the inaugural opera of ROHM 2015-2016 season. Performed in October 2011, the original production was commissioned from the famous Italian filmmaker and set designer Franco Zeffirelli. The opera will be performed once again by the prestigious Fondazione Arena di Verona and conducted by Andrea Battistoni. Perfomances on the 1st, the 3rd and the 4th of October 2015. www.rohmuscat.org.om...
Ambrogio Maestri will be interpreting the title role in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Nabucco, opening on 7 October the 2015-2016 Season of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Maestri will also be singing during the performances of 10, 14, 17, 19 and 22 October. www.liceubarcelona.cat...