For the love of the opera

Turandot, Puccini in La Scala

From 25 June to 15 July 2024 Opera in three acts and five scenes Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus Treble Voices Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala Academy Teatro alla Scala New Production Conductor DANIEL HARDING Staging DAVIDE LIVERMORE Sets ELEONORA PERONETTI, PAOLO GEP CUCCO, DAVIDE LIVERMORE Costumes MARIANA FRACASSO […]

Don Quichotte, Massenet in Opéra national de Paris

Opéra Bastille from 10 May to 11 June 2024 After Cendrillon, Jules Massenet’s music is once again in the limelight with Don Quichotte, his last opera – created in 1910 for the Russian bass Shaliapin – a work that has not been performed at the Opéra Bastille for over 20 years. The composer retained only a few […]

DON GIOVANNI, Mozart in Staatsoper Berlin

DRAMMA GIOCOSO IN TWO ACTS (1787) 17, 19, 23, 26, 31 of May, 07 of June MUSIC BY Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart TEXT BY Lorenzo Da Ponte The writer E.T.A. Hoffmann described Mozart’s »Don Giovanni« as »the opera of all operas«.  Since its world premiere in 1787 in Prague, the work has been highly celebrated on […]

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.

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