Music Tours
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Keep scrolling down this page for many of the websites you can link to find out all you need to know about Opera in Italy!
Some of the sites are in the Italian language only but you can simply 'cut & paste' the website address into Google which will translate it for you.
.jpg) Italy, Opera's ancestral home, offers visitors a rich choice of operatic seasons throughout most of the year. The Teatro alla Scala of Milano, the Teatro San Carlo of Napoli and the Teatro dell'Opera of Roma are world-renowned for technical perfection of performances and detailed magnificence of scenery and costumes.
The opera season lasts from December to june, as do the seasons at Italy 's other major opera houses:
Teatro la Fenice (Venezia), Teatro Massimo (Palermo), Teatro Regio (Parma), Teatro Comunale (Firenze), Teatro Petruzzelli (Bari), Teatro Massimo Bellini (Catania), Teatro Comunale (Bologna), Teatro Comunale Verdi (Trieste), Teatro Comunale (Genova) and Teatro Regio (Torino).
In summer, spectacular open-air opera is presented at the Terme di Caracalla in Roma (July/August), the Arena in Verona (July/August) and the Arena Sferisterio in Macerata (July). During July and August the Teatro Rossetti of Trieste presents an Operetta Festival.
Two of the most important Italian festivals of the performing arts are the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (opera, concerts, ballet, drama) in Firenze (May to June) and the Festival of Two Worlds (opera, concerts, ballet, drama, art exhibits) in Spoleto from mid-June to mid-July.
Below are a number of music event websites you can visit:
.gif) Bologna TEATRO COMUNALE
Largo Respighi 1 - 40126 Bologna
www.comunalebologna.it
Catania TEATRO MASSIMO BELLINI
Via Perrotta 12 - 95131 Catania
www.teatromassimobellini.com
Firenze TEATRO COMUNALE
Corso Italia 16 - 50123 Firenze
www.maggiofiorentino.com
Genova TEATRO CARLO FELICE
Galleria Cardinale Siri 6 - 16121 Genova
www.carlofelice.it
Macerata SFERISTERIO DI MACERATA
Casella Postale 92 - 62100 Macerata - Italia
www.macerata.com/Manifestazioni/sferisterio
.gif) Milano TEATRO ALLA SCALA
Via Filodrammatici 2 - 20121 Milano
www.teatroallascala.org
Napoli TEATRO SAN CARLO
Via San Carlo 98F - 80132 Napoli
www.teatrosancarlo.it
Palermo TEATRO MASSIMO
Via R. Wagner 2 - 90139 Palermo
www.teatromassimo.it
Parma TEATRO REGIO
Via Garibaldi 16A - 43100 Parma
www.comune.parma.it
Roma TEATRO DELL'OPERA
Piazza B. Gigli 8 - 00184 Roma
www.opera.roma.it
.gif) Torino TEATRO REGIO
Piazza Castello 215 - 10124 Torino
Tel. 39 011 8815241 or 8815242
Fax 39 011 8815214
www.teatroregio.torino.it
Trieste TEATRO COMUNALE "GIUSEPPE VERDI"
Piazza Verdi 1 - 34121 Trieste
www.teatroverdi-trieste.com
Venezia TEATRO LA FENICE
San Marco 1965 - 30124 Venezia
www.teatrolafenice.it
Verona ARENA DI VERONA
Probably the most well known summer festival for opera is in Verona, where performances are held in the ancient Roman Arena from the end of June until the beginning of September . even non Opera converts will find a performance in this Arena absolutely breathtaking and unforgettable!
Programme 2008 Arena Opera Season
For more information visit the official website at www.arena.it (Italian and English).
Opera and Ballet Season at the Teatro Filarmonico
13 December 2007 - 11 May 2008
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Thursday 13 dicembre 2007, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets A)
Friday 14 dicembre, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets D)
Saturday 15 dicembre, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets E)
Sunday 16 dicembre, at 5.00 pm (Season tickets B)
Tuesday 18 dicembre, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets C)
"SOGNO DI UNA NOTTE DI MEZZA ESTATE"
by Felix Mendelssohn
( Midsummer Night's Dream will be preceded by a
"new commission" dedicated to the figure of Iago)
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Friday 25 gennaio 2008, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets A)
Sunday 27 gennaio, at 3.30 pm (Season tickets B)
Tuesday 29 gennaio, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets C)
Thursday 31 gennaio, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets D)
Saturday 2 febbraio, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets E)
NIXON IN CHINA
Opera in 3 acts by John Adams
Libretto by Alice Goodman
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Friday 22 febbraio 2008, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets A)
Sunday 24 febbraio, at 3.30 pm (Season tickets B)
Tuesday 26 febbraio, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets C)
Thursday 28 febbraio, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets D)
Saturday 1 marzo, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets E)
OBERTO, CONTE DI SAN BONIFACIO
Opera in 2 acts by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Antonio Piazza e Temistocle Solera
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Friday 28 marzo 2008, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets A)
Sunday 30 marzo, at 3.30 pm (Season tickets B)
Tuesday 1 aprile, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets C)
Venerdì 4 aprile, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets E)
Saturday 6 aprile, at 3.30 pm (Season tickets D)
ATTILA
operatic drama in a prologue and 3 acts by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Temistocle Solera
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Wednesday 7 maggio 2008, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets A)
Thursday 8 maggio, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets C)
Friday 9 maggio, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets D)
Saturday 10 maggio, at 8.30 pm (Season tickets E)
Sunday 11 maggio, at 5.00 pm (Season tickets B)
GISELLE
Balletto by Adolphe Adam
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In case of necessity, Fondazione Arena di Verona is entitled to change the present programme.
Tickets for the Arena Festival 2006 are available from Travel Concepts.
For more information visit the official website at www.arena.it (Italian and English).
Don't miss the Opera delights!
If you consider yourself an opera appassionato, or enthusiast, you owe it to yourself to experience opera in Italy . If you didn't make it this year, start planning now for the summer of 2006.
Check out these Web sites for more information. and remember, Travel Concepts can book everything for you!
The Rossini festival is held every year in August in Pesaro (also on the Adriatic coast). Go to www.rossinioperafestival.it
From the end of July through August, opera is performed on Lake Massaciuccoli , home to Puccini (near Lucca in Tuscany ).
Music and dance performances take place at the Roman amphitheater of Cagliari on the island of Sardegna . Go to www.giuseppeverdi.it
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