For the love of the opera

Savonlinna Opera Festival 

Savonlinna Opera Festival is held annually in the city of Savonlinna in Finland. The Festival takes place at the medieval Olavinlinna (St. Olaf’s Castle), built in 1475. The first opera festival was held in 1912, making it one of the first opera festivals in the world.

SIMON BOCCANEGRA, Verdi in Opéra national de Paris

Giuseppe Verdi from 12 March to 03 April 2024 Although not the best-known of Verdi’s operas, Simon Boccanegra was one of his favourites, to the extent that he extensively reworked it 24 years after its Venice premiere in 1857. What a destiny Simon Boccanegra enjoyed! This former privateer, elected doge of Genoa, wishes to re-establish peace within […]

Les Huguenots, Meyerbeer in Mariinsky

Opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer 29 of February, 01, 02, 10 of March 2024 World premiere: 29 February 1836, Académie Royale de Musique, Paris Premiere at the Bolshoi (Kamennyi) Theatre: 31 January 1850, Imperial Italian Opera Company, St Petersburg First production at the Mariinsky Theatre: 2 February 1862Premiere of this production: 29 February 2024

EUGEN ONEGIN, Tschaikowski in Vienna State Opera

Music Piotr I. Tschaikowski, Text Piotr I. Tschaikowski & Konstantin Schilowski On March 01, 03, 06, 09 A dandy who is as wandering as he is incapable of commitment coolly rejects the love of a landowner’s daughter – while she grows from this rejection, he breaks from his neglect.

Gran Teatro del Liceo Birthday

El Liceu is the oldest theater in Barcelona still in use as a theater. El Liceu opened at its current address on 4 April 1847. Website

DON GIOVANNI, Mozart in Teatro La Fenice Venezia

16-25 of May 2024 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Torna sul palcoscenico del Teatro La Fenice, nell’ambito della Stagione Lirica e Balletto 2023-2024. Il dramma giocoso in due atti composto dal salisburghese sul libretto di Lorenzo Da Ponte sarà in scena nel pluripremiato allestimento che vinse nel 2011 un Premio Abbiati (per le scene e i costumi) […]

LA RONDINE, Puccini in La Scala

From 4 to 20 April 2024 Opera in three acts Libretto by Giuseppe Adami Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala New Production Critical edition curated by Ditlev Rindom