Guillaume Tell directed by Damiano Michieletto will open the 2018 season of the Teatro Massimo di Palermo on January 23rd. Missing from Palermo for more than fifty years, this Gioachino
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Michele Mariotti will be back on the podium of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna to conduct La bohème which will open the new opera season “ON” 2018 on January 19th
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Daniele Gatti is back on the podium of the Royal Concertgebow on January 5th and 7th with a concert that opens with the “Prelude and good Friday spell” from “Parsifal”
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Lisette Oropesa is on stage as « Gretel » at the Metropolitan Opera from December 18th to January 6th in the Richard Jones’s production of the Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera « Hansel and Gretel »,
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“Damnation is losing humanity as a consequence of isolation and lack of human relations”. These are the words of stage director Damiano Michieletto referring to Hector Berlioz’ masterpiece La Damnation
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Italian baritone Luca Salsi will be one of the lead characters of Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, opening the new season of the Teatro alla Scala on 7 December, with Riccardo
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Michele Mariotti is back on the podium for the last concert of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna Concert Season on November 30. Beginning at 8:30 PM at Teatro Auditorium Manzoni,
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In November Daniele Gatti is on tour with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: first stop the close Frankfurt, then they will fly over to the Far East, to South Korea and
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Aida by Verdi in the very well received staging signed by Francesco Micheli in 2014, produced with the Macerata Opera Festival and staged on the 50th anniversary of the Sferisterio, arrives
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Daniele Gatti is on the podium of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on November 8 & 9 conducting Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto. Soprano Julia Kleiter and
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Daniele Gatti and the German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann turn their attention to one of the most popular pieces composed by Beethoven, the Violin Concerto. The second half of the
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Michele Mariotti is to return to the Royal Opera House of London on October 30 to conduct Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. This romantic masterpiece par excellence, where opposing clans
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Ambrogio Maestri is Scarpia in Tosca on stage at the Wiener Staatsoper on October 23, 27 & 30. The staging is signed by Margarethe Wallmann, on the podium Jesús López Cobos.
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Daniele Gatti opens Teatro alla Scala’s concert season on October 14 with Mahler’s Second Symphony, soloists Miah Persson (soprano) and Christianne Stotijn (mezzo). Re-runs on October 16 & 19.