From March 25th to April 1st Daniela Barcellona will embody once more the role of Mrs. Quickly in Falstaff at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. Daniel Barenboim will conduct the last Verdi’s masterpiece for the first time. The new staging is by Mario Martone. > Staatsoper Unter den Linden...
From March 22 through May 10, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor returns to the Metropolitan Opera House of New York starring Olga Peretyatko as the title character and Luca Salsi as Lord Enrico Asthon. Roberto Abbado conducts all performances of the revival of Mary Zimmerman's 2007 production, wich suggests a 19th-century setting. > Metropolitan Opera...
Daniele Gatti returns on the podium of the Filarmonica della Scala with a program that includes the Suite from Nobilissima visione by Paul Hindemith and the Sinfonia n. 4 by Anton Bruckner on March the 19th. Info > Filarmonica della Scala...
New debut in a Rossini's role - in the 150th anniversary of the death of the composer - for the soprano Carmela Remigio, who will be for the first time Elcìa in the opera Mosè in Egitto, at the Teatro San Carlo of Naples from March the 15th. After Two hundred years from the premiere at the Teatro San Carlo on March the 5th in 1818, Rossini's masterpiece returned to Naples with the direction of David Poutney...
Antonio Florio and the Cappella Neapolitana bring Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo for the first time to the Teatro Regio of Turin. The Neapolitan musician and his historical ensemble interpret one of the first examples of opera, intact until today since his debut in Mantua in 1607. > Info Teatro Regio...
On March the 12th Diana Damrau returns on stage at Teatro alla Scala for a concert dedicated to the Lieder of Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss. Info > Teatro alla Scala...
Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc is the 2018 Opera Season's second title of the Teatro Comunale, on stage from March the 11th to 16th. A Co-production by Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie. Info > Teatro Comunale di Bologna...
Lisette Oropesa is on stage as Euridice at LA Opera from March the 10th to 24th in Gluck's Orphée et Euridice directed and coreographed by John Neumeier, with James Conlon on the podium. Info > LA Opera ...
Daniela Barcellona performs once again the role of Amneris from March 9th, in the occasion of the Bicentennial celebration of Teatro Real de Madrid, that revives one of its most monumental and emblematic productions: Verdi’s Aida with the staging, scenography, and costumes by Hugo de Ana. Nicola Luisotti conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Real. Info > Teatro Real de Madrid...
After successful performances in London – where it made its debut in 2015 and was later re-staged last December – and in Sidney and Melbourne, the double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, directed by Damiano Michieletto – the show was prized with the 2016 Olivier Award – reaches now the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, beginning 6 March, with Evelino Pidò conducting. The two one-act operas, respectively composed by Pietro Mascagni and...