Opera in Italy
Festival Valle D'Itria
15 July-4 Aug. The festival at Martina Franca, which specialises in rare and seldom performed works, presents the new opera Le Braci by Italy's prolific composer Marco Tutino at its opening night to c...
Macerata Sferisterio Opera Festival
17 July-9 Aug. The operas this year in the sferisterio open-air theatre in Macerata are Rigoletto (17, 25, 31 July and 8, 9 Aug), Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci (18, 24 July, 2, 8 Aug) and La Bohe...
Lucia di Lammermoor
31 March-12 April. A new production conducted by Roberto Abbado (nephew of the late Claudio Abbado), directed by the late Luca Ronconi and with Australian soprano Jessica Pratt in the lead role. The l...
Verdi Opera festival in Parma
The two operas in this year's Verdi festival are Forza del Destino and La Traviata. There are also concerts and chamber music concerts and a special event to celebrate the 80th birthday of Raina Kabai...
Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni
Also Le Spectre de la Rose and La Rose Malade
A combination of two ballets and one opera, all conducted by Daniel Harding. Le Spectre de la Rose was conceivied for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and fo...
La Traviata di G. Verdi
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Orchestra e Coro FILARMONICA D’OPERA DI ROMA La Chiesa di All Saints, situata in Via del Babuino 153, una delle vie più af-fascinanti nel cuore di Roma, è...
Le Quattro Stagioni di A. Vivaldi
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Orchestra Concerto Barocco di Roma Direttore - Solista - Basso continuo Chiesa All Saints in Via del Babuino 153 - Roma (Piazza di Spagna) inizio spettacoli ore 20:30 DICEMB...
Concerto di Capodanno - New Year’s Concert
New Year’s Concert I Solisti dell’Opera Arie d’Opera con Orchestra e Cantanti in Costumi Nobiliari del 1700 Enchanting Opera Arias Orchestra and Singer in XVIII Century Costume...
Il Cappello di paglia
Florence. Il Cappello di Paglia by Nino Rota, best known for his film scores espeically for Federico Fellini, was an immediate success when it first opened in Palermo in 1955. This latest edition, fir...
La Traviata by Verdi opens La Scala's new season
La Traviata opens La Scala’s new season conducted by Daniel Gatti, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Diana Damrau sings Violetta, together with Piotr Beczala and the famous Verdi baritone
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata opens La Scala’s new season conducted by Daniel Gatti, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Diana Damrau sings Violetta, together with Piotr Beczala and the famous Verdi baritone
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata opens La Scala’s new season conducted by Daniel Gatti, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Diana Damrau sings Violetta, together with Piotr Beczala and the famous Verdi baritone
L'Africaine by Giacomo Meyerbeer
A new production to mark the 150th anniversary of Meyerbeer’s death. With Jessica Pratt andf Gregory Kunde, directed by Leo Muscato and conducted by Emmanuel Villaume.
L’Africaine, whic...
Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
This is the last opera of the 2012-2013 La Scala season, in a 2006 production reminiscent of Zeffirelli’s 1963 version with scenes by Lila de Nobile. The international cast is conducted by Giana...
Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi’s opera will be performed in its 1884 Italian version with the production by Stephane Braunschweig inaugurated in Japan in 2008. It is conducted by Fabio Luisi, with Rene Pape in the role...
La scala di seta by Rossini
Love intrigues take place up and down a silk staircase. Rossini’s farce is performed here by the young Academy singers conducted by Christophe Rouset and staged by Damiano Michieletto with the s...
Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by James Conlon and directed by Graham Vick. This is a production for Maggio Musicale in the original version which was first performed at the Pergola theatre in 1847, to be followed by a re...
Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner
Wagner’s entire Ring Cycle is performed over a period of two weeks: Das Rheingold 17, 24 June; Die Walküre 18, 24 June; Seigfried; June 20, 27; Götterdämmerung 22, 29 June. This c...
Wagner Gala
A programme of Wagner’s music in concert form conducted by Hartmund Haenchen, the musical director of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra who is considered one of today’s great Wagneria...
Il Trionfo di Clelia
To celebrate its 250 anniversary the Bologna opera house is staging Il Trionfo di Clelia by Gluck, conducted and directed by Sigismondi De Risio. The scenery and costumes are by the English director a...
