Constancia – Les vêpres siciliennes | Teatro Massimo in Palermo The exhibition “Constancia. Women and Power in the Mediterranean Empire of Frederick II” virtually comes alive with the music of Giuseppe Verdi and his opera “Les Vêpres siciliennes”, inspired by the famous historical clash between Angevin oppressors and oppressed Sicilians. The opera, conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, inaugurated the 2022 Season of the
The "Angelo Mai" Civic Library of Bergamo In Bergamo, in a gorgeous Renaissance square, Piazza Vecchia, you can see a large Palladian building. It houses the holdings of the “Angelo Mai” Civic Library, the oldest municipal institution in the city, founded at the end of the eighteenth century by Cardinal Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti. A rich and extremely diversified patrimony, as the library director
The Musical Collections of the "Angelo Mai" Civic Library in Bergamo The thematic itinerary dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” begins at the Angelo Mai Civic Library where the precious manuscript is preserved. Marcello Eynard, head of the Antique and Music Department, talk about the musical collections of the library in Bergamo and the precious autograph manuscript of the famous opera for
The autographed score of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor arrives to New York from Bergamo for the new production at the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Riccardo Frizza The precious manuscript will be on display from 21 April at the Italian Cultural Institute on Park Avenue New York, 686 Park Avenue, 21 April – 21 May 2022 Lucia di Lammermoor is undoubtedly, together with L’elisir
Gioachino Rossini from the sources to the stage The musicologist Vincenzo Borghetti and the superintendent of the Rossini Opera Festival present the important edition and staging of “Elisabetta regina d’Inghilterra”, a rare work by the composer born in Pesaro The "Italian Rooms", the virtual home of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York directed by Fabio Finotti, an Italianist that hails from Padua,
Opera Italiana is in the Air, by Alvise Casellati, presents “Rebirth!” On Monday June 28th at 7:00 PM, Opera Italiana is in the Air returns to Central Park to present a special, one-night only, open-air performance of beloved Italian opera classics under the baton of Maestro Alvise Casellati at the newly reopened Naumburg Bandshell. A summer evening of music that is free and
Greek Theater and Opera Direction Marina Valensise, Managing Director of the INDA (National Institute of Ancient Drama in Siracusa, Italy) in conversation with Canadian opera director Robert Carsen on future programs at the Greek Theater in Siracusa, and on the expressive possibilities linking classical Greek repertoire to Opera theater. Find out more What's New in the Other
