Francesco Meli

I carabbimatti

Two fools eventually become Carabinieri, and jump from a trash situation to another.

Donizetti: Anna Bolena

Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani kept the focus of their opera ANNA BOLENA on the personal ra...

Macbeth

As per tradition, the 2021/22 season opened in December at La Scala in Milan, this time with a new production o...

Il Trovatore

The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy but still hop...

Giuseppe Verdi: I due Foscari

In 15th-century Venice, Jacopo Foscari, son of the Doge of Venice Francesco Foscari, is to be tried by the Coun...

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

In the 14th century, Genoa was torn apart by strife between the patricians and the plebeians. The sailor Simon...

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

In Boston, at the governor’s palace. The courtiers, divided into friends and foes—including Tom and Samuel—awai...

Aida - Verdi - Salzburg Festival

Passionate and unconditionally dedicated, Anna Netrebko makes her Salzburg Festival debut as Aida, alongside Fr...

Teatro alla Scala: Joan of Arc

"Giovanna d'Arco; ossia, la pulzella d'Orléans" is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts by...

Tosca

To open its 2019-2020 season, La Scala in Milan has chosen Tosca, in a new production directed by Davide Liverm...

Don Carlo

Premiere of the 23/24 season at the Teatro La Scala of Milan, broadcast live. The story of Verdi's opera is bas...

Verdi Requiem

The production itself is quite beautiful: recorded in the Basilica di San Marco in Venice in November 2007, it...

Ernani - ROMA

Ernani is a love story about a young woman, Elvira, caught between three men: her lover, the nobleman-turned-ou...

Royal Opera House: I Due Foscari

In Giuseppe Verdi's little-known early tragedy, a despairing father is torn between love for his family and his...

Royal Opera House: Carmen

This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production, originally...

Giovanna d'Arco

Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata

I Lombardi alla prima crociata (The Lombards on the First Crusade) was Verdi’s fourth opera and received its fi...

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Andrea De Rosa's production of Guiseppe Verdi's Liguria-set masterpiece about the eponymous 14th century Doge o...

Royal Opera House: Aida

Love and duty collide and nations clash in Verdi's political drama, starring Elena Stikhina and Angel Blue and...

Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) - Arena di Verona

Messa da Requiem (2011)

A requiem inspired by the death, on May 22, 1873, of the Italian poet and writer Alessandro Manzoni, author of...

Il trovatore - Teatro Real

As Aragon descends into unrest, a count jealously fights for a noble lady's heart. But she has already given it...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Verdi Requiem

The recording took place in Teatro Farnese di Parma, a kind of "mini-Verona" stage, but under roof. Probably go...

Verdi Gala

As part of the Viva Verdi initiative organized by the Ministry of Culture, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna prese...

Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda

Two queens on one island. A recipe for disaster. Especially as both have a legitimate claim to the other's thro...

Mizzzzica... ma che è proibitissimo?

Un Ballo in Maschera - Arena di Verona