The Great Italian Opera World Heritage Site

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by Opera Charm Team

June 5, 2024

The Ministry of Culture celebrates Italian Opera with an extraordinary event at the Arena di Verona, broadcast worldwide by RAI. Opera singing will be the protagonist, with 160 orchestra professors and 300 choir artists from the Italian lyrical symphonic foundations. And with the extraordinary participation of Maestro Riccardo Muti.

In a single evening, in the world’s largest open-air theatre, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flórez, Ludovic Tézier, Vittorio Grigolo, Luca Salsi, Eleonora Buratto, Francesco Meli and many other artists, with dancing by Roberto Bolle and Nicoletta Manni. Cristiana Capotondi, Luca Zingaretti and Alberto Angela will lead the audience on an enthralling ‘journey’ through the songs that have made the history of music and Italy. Culture celebrates Opera. Event in collaboration with Rai Cultura.

The show starts at 20:30, access allowed until 19:45.

PROGRAM

Georges Bizet Carmen Les tringles des sistres tintaient · Aigul Akhmetshina Sofia Koberidze, Daniela Cappiello

Gioachino Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia Largo al factotum della città · Nicola Alaimo

Pietro Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana Intermezzo · Roberto Bolle

Giacomo Puccini Madama Butterfly Coro a bocca chiusa · Roberto Bolle, Nicoletta Manni

Giacomo Puccini Madama Butterfly Un bel dì vedremo · Eleonora Buratto

Giacomo Puccini La Bohème Vecchia zimarra, senti · Gianluca Buratto

Giacomo Puccini Turandot Tu che di gel sei cinta · Rosa Feola

Giacomo Puccini La Bohème Che gelida manina, Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto La donna è mobile · Juan Diego Flórez

Giacomo Puccini Turandot Nessun dorma · Vittorio Grigolo

Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata Libiamo ne’ lieti calici · Vittorio Grigolo, Rosa Feola

Giacomo Puccini La Bohème Quando me’n vo · Juliana Grigoryan

Ruggero Leoncavallo Pagliacci Recitar!… Vesti la giubba · Brian Jagde

Giacomo Puccini Tosca E lucevan le stelle · Jonas Kaufmann

Gaetano Donizetti L’Elisir d’amore Una furtiva lagrima · Francesco Meli

Giacomo Puccini Tosca Vissi d’arte, Gianni Schicchi O mio babbino caro · Anna Netrebko

Vincenzo Bellini Norma Casta Diva · Jessica Pratt

Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore Di quella pira · Galeano Salas

Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto Cortigiani, vil razza dannata · Luca Salsi

Giacomo Puccini Tosca Va’ Tosca… Te Deum · Luca Salsi Matteo Macchioni

Vincenzo Bellini I Capuleti e i Montecchi Oh! quante volte, oh quante · Mariangela Sicilia

Umberto Giordano Andrea Chénier Nemico della patria · Ludovic Tézier

Cori e scene da Aida, Messa da Requiem, Carmina Burana

Direttore Francesco Ivan Ciampa

CAST

Soprano

Anna Netrebko
Eleonora Buratto
Rosa Feola
Juliana Grigoryan
Jessica Pratt
Mariangela Sicilia

Mezzosoprano

Aigul Akhmetshina

Tenor

Jonas Kaufmann
Juan Diego Flórez
Vittorio Grigòlo
Brian Jagde
Francesco Meli
Galeano Salas

Baritone

Nicola Alaimo
Luca Salsi
Ludovic Tézier

Bass

Gianluca Buratto

Dancers

Roberto Bolle
Nicoletta Manni

Conductor

Riccardo Muti
Francesco Ivan Ciampa

Orchestra and Chorus

Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Petruzzelli and Teatri di Bari, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Arena in Verona, ATIT member theatres

Ballet and technicians
Arena di Verona Foundation

Sets
Filippo Tonon

Chorus Master
Roberto Gabbiani

Ballet Coordinator
Gaetano Petrosino

Stage Director
Michele Olcese

Choreography
Massimiliano Volpini

Presenters
Alberto Angela, Cristiana Capotondi and Luca Zingaretti

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE A L'OPÉRA DE PARIS

October 2024

OPERA CHARM TEAM

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Opera Charm Team

Alice Lechner

Alice Lechner comes from a music-loving family. Her first encounter with the opera universe was at the tender age of six. The grandeur of the stage productions and costumes, the backstage chatter, and last, but definitely not least, the music left her in awe, beginning with Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The overall feeling that opera awakens in anyone who gets a glimpse into this part of artistic eternity, that each and every day passes the test of time, was what drew her to stay and be a part of this world. The Opera House of Brașov became her second home, and the people who worked there were her second family.

Since then, Alice has devoted her spare time to maximising her musical knowledge through instrumental studies, studying both piano and violin for a short time. In the following years, her number one passion stepped out of the limelight and graciously gave way to Law Studies.
Since 2018 she has been studying Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.

Her passion for opera, even if it is no longer her top professional priority in terms of career, it has most definitely become her priority during her free time. Wanting to experience the best of both worlds and extend her musical horizons, she regularly attends opera performances throughout Romania and abroad.
With OPERA Charm Magazine, Alice aims to nurture her creative side to help it flourish and bloom and to discover, alongside the magazine’s readers, the fascinatingly complex world of opera.

Currently, she is an LL.M. in Business Law at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași.

Oana Zamfir

Oana Zamfir is a second year MA student at the “George Enescu” National University of Arts, at the Department of Musicology.

She studied violin for 12 years at the “Stefan Luchian” High School of Art in Botosani, later focusing on the theoretical aspects of music. In 2019 she completed her bachelor studies in Musicology as a student of the National Academy of Music “Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj-Napoca. Her research during 2018-2019 brought to the forefront elements of the archaic ritual within works of composers who activated during the communist period, giving her the opportunity to start a research internship at the “Carl von Ossietzky” University in Germany. In this context, she recorded conversations with members of the Sophie Drinker Institute in Bremen, and had access to documents directly from the Myriam Marbé archive.

Since 2019 she has been a teacher of Music Education and Theoretical Music Studies, making full use of interactive methods in the musical training of students and working, at the same time, with the children’s choir founded in the first year of her activity.

Her interests include pursuing a degree in interior design in 2020.

Alexandru Suciu

Alexandru Suciu inherited his passion for art growing up in a family of several generations of musicians. He began his musical studies at the “Augustin Bena” School of Music in Cluj, where he studied piano and guitar. Even though his main study direction was philological, his passion for music prevailed. He began his academical journey at the Faculty of Letters of the “Babeș-Bolyai” University, studying Comparative literature and English. He continued by studying Opera Singing at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy. He also graduated the Musical Education section, followed by Artistic Directing at the Musical Performing Arts department.

His multidisciplinary education opened the doors towards research, which is seen both through his participation in national and international conferences and symposia, such as the Salzburg Easter School PhD-forum, organized by the Salzburg Universität or the Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars, organized by the Institute of English at the University of Silesia, as well as the collaboration with Opera Charm Magazine.

During his student years, he won several prizes, including the Grand Prize at the “Paul Constantinescu” National Musical Interpretation Competition, the Romanian Composers and Musicologists’ Union Prize at the same competition, the First Prize and the Schubert Prize at the “Ada Ulubeanu” Competition.

He further developed his artistic skills by specializing in courses and masterclasses held by personalities such as Vittorio Terranova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Marian Pop, Ines Salazar, Riccardo Zanellato, Paolo Bosisio, Valentina Farcaș and Manuel Lange in contexts such as the Internationale Sommerakademie für Operngesang Deutschlandsberg, Corso Internazionale di Canto Lirico I.M.C. Licata or the Europäische Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst Montepulciano. Besides his activity on-stage, he currently teaches Opera Singing Didactics, and Pedagogical Practice within the Department for Teacher Education and Training at the “Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy.

Cristina Fieraru

Cristina is a 24 year-old Romanian soprano & a student at the National University of Music Bucharest, where she pursues the MA program in Vocal Performance.

She made her debut in Pamina from “Die Zauberflöte” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at only 19 years old at the Bucharest National Opera House, as a member of the Ludovic Spiess Experimental Opera Studio. Over the years she made her debut in roles such as Contessa d’Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Mimì & Musetta (La Bohème), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte) in her university’s opera productions.
Her passion and experience extends in the field of choral music, too.

She has been part of our dream team since the fall of 2021. For a good period of time she took care of OPERA Charm’s social media and took you on the monthly journey through the history of opera through our Legends rubric – and a few times through the Theaters around the World rubric.

Her little soul rubric – from 2021 to present – is definitely the Conductors of the Future, where, every month, she gives you the chance to meet a young star of the world of conducting and, of course, to find out what’s the most charming feature of opera in these artists’ views.

BIANCA L. NICA

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