Season 2017/2018
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Tragic opera in four acts
Libretto by Andrea Maffei
based on Die Räuber di Friedrich Schiller
First performed at Her Majesty’s Theatre on 22 July 1847
Length: 2,50 h approximately - I part 75' - intermission 30'- II part 65'
Season 2017/2018
Music by Hector Berlioz
Dramatic legend in four parts
Libretto by Hector Berlioz and Almire Gandonnière
after Johann Wolfgang Goethe, French translation by Gérard de Nerval
First performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 6 December 1846
First Part A vast plain in Hungary. It’s the dawn of a spring day and Faust contemplates with joy the awakening of nature. His peacefulness is disturbed by a festive dance of peasants, towards whom he shows signs of irritation betraying…Read more ›
Season 2015/2016
After Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini
Transcription by Tommaso Chieco, Marco Giustini
Length: 1,20 h without intermission
The question I posed myself was simple: how can musical theatre reach a new, mixed, non-elitist audience? How can opera be perceived as a moment of cultural sharing and intelligent entertainment for as many people as possible rather than an…Read more ›
Season 2016/2017
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
after La Dame aux Camélias by Alexadre Dumas figlio
Length: 3,30 h approximately - I ACT 30' - INTERMISSION 30' - II ACT 1,25 h - INTERMISSION 30' - III ACT 35'
Season 2016/2017
Melodramma in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
after the drama by Victorien Sardou
Length: 2 h 55' approximately with 2 intermissions
Season 2016/2017
Operà-comique in three acts
Libretto by Eugène Scribe
Length: 2,50 h APPROXIMATELY - ACT I 65' - INTERMISSION 30' - ACT II AND ACT III 75'
