For the third consecutive year, the international star returns to Cremona with Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco, conducted by Gianluca Capuano Thursday, May 28, at 9:00 PM, Teatro Ponchielli
Today, May 22, “Sonata for 7 Cities: Live in Cape Town” is released, the second album of Filippo Gorini’s international project for Alpha Classics Featuring Federico Gardella’s Sonata d’altura, Schumann’s
The sacred music of Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner’s musical theatre, the Impressionist atmospheres of Debussy, and the virtuosity of Saint-Saëns are at the heart of Daniele Gatti’s programme for his third international tour of the season at the helm of the Staatskapelle Dresden, of which he is Chief Conductor.
“The Rossinian Figaro is usually portrayed as a witty and carefree character, the tireless driving force behind the opera’s events. This production of The Barber of Seville, however, explores the more melancholic nuances of the composer’s comedy, making my return to this role even more compelling”.
The human and artistic story of one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, Yuri Egorov, is at the heart of A Piano in Exile (Un pianoforte in esilio) — a recital intertwining words and music created by Luca Micheletti, who appears not only as the author of the text but also as its performer.
The first chapter of Wagner’s famous Der Ring des Nibelungen tetralogy, Das Rheingold, will open a month of major debuts for Michele Spotti.
Described by The New York Times as a soprano who “brings Italy back to life,” and recognized as one of the leading international interpreters of the bel canto repertoire, Rosa Feola returns to the Metropolitan Opera in New York starting tonight, May 3.
“It is a story that can tell us a great deal about the psychological dynamics linked to political power in today’s world." This is the lens through which Damiano Michieletto interprets La clemenza di Tito, Mozart’s drama with which he returns to the Opernhaus Zürich fourteen years after his Poliuto in 2012.
The last opera by Wagner after the last opera by Verdi. Daniele Gatti, Principal Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden, returns to the podium of the Semperoper in the Saxon capital following Falstaff, with which he inaugurated the 2025/26 season last October, to conduct Parsifal.
To inhabit a city through music, to listen to its voices, and to return its energy in a live recital. Sonata for 7 Cities: live in Vienna is the new album by thirty-year-old pianist Filippo Gorini for Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France, marking the discographic starting point of Sonata for 7 Cities, an international initiative conceived by Gorini that unfolds across seven cities worldwide, combining musical research with social engagement.
Concrete walls, a sea delicately painted in filigree, a “room of memory” where “various apparitions take place, recapitulations of traumatic events from a past that manifests itself through epiphanies”.
More than 150 years after its first and only performance, held on January 13, 1867, at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Conservatory of Como, — in collaboration with Casa Ricordi, which has overseen the critical edition of the score, and within the framework of the European-funded project Casta Diva — presents the first modern staging of Turanda.
After the European tournée with the Staatskapelle Dresden, which in September took him to Rheingau, Milan, Bucharest, Linz, and Prague, Daniele Gatti returns to the Semperoper Dresden on Sunday, October 5, to conduct a new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff staged by Damiano Michieletto and opening title of the 2025/26 Dresden opera season.
Michele Spotti was appointed today Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, a position he will assume from the 2026/27 season.
The opening of the Staatskapelle Dresden’s 2025/26 season and a tournée with stops in Rheingau, Milan, Bucharest, Linz and Prague are the upcoming engagements of conductor Daniele Gatti. On Sunday, August 31 (with repeat performances on September 1 and 2), he opens his second season as Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle — his tenure began in August 2024 — with a concert at the Semperoper in Dresden.
At just 32 years old – only two years above the minimum age required to be eligible – the Italian conductor Michele Spotti, has been appointed by the French Ministry of Culture as “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”, one of the highest honors awarded to “individuals who have distinguished themselves through their artistic or literary creations or for the contribution they have made to the influence of the arts and letters in France and worldwide.”
