Opera and Ballet

Two masterpieces of melodrama being shown in February

Teatro Regio, from the 19th - 28th February, 2012

During the months of February and March, the Teatro Regio strikes gold: The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini from the 19th to the 26th February, followed by Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini from the 21st to the 28th February, then La bohème by Giacomo Puccini the 6th to 17th March and Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi from 14th to the 20th of March.

Four tried and well applauded productions by the Teatro Regio are back on the stage, four different productions are now going to be replicated with new directors and performers, expressing, as the project has developed and grown in recent years by the Teatro Regio, an "Italian way", a way that allows the Teatro Regio to meet the public’s demands. The public is then benefited by being able to watch a growing number of Italian masterpieces whereby the Regio intersects the dates between several titles. In total there will be eighteen performances in thirty-one days in the same season. «The frequent staging of popular operas is a guaranteed success and making them spectacular every time is our aim. We try to put in place a system that combines an intelligent theatre repertoire and the desire to experiment» explains General Manager Walter Vergnano. The Music Director Gianandrea Noseda added: «The idea of a sequence of productions which are both bold and popular, stems from the desire to keep the theatre open as long as possible. In the design of a large theatre, the repertoire has to live constructively with the most sought after proposal».

The scandalous opera by Prokofiev conducted by Valerij Gergiev

Teatro Regio, Wednesday 1st February 2012 at 20:00

The Fiery Angel by Sergei Prokofiev, returns to Teatro Regio from 1st to 11th February 2012 after nearly fifty years and this time under the conduction of Valerij Gergiev, great artistic director from the Mariinskij Theatre of St. Petersburg, who has conducted this opera around the world. The theatre soloists performers and the scenery are from Russia (a co-production with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London). The Orchestra and Chorus will be those of the Teatro Regio.

The director is David Freeman. Freeman has the capability of bringing to life the true spirit of this opera. The scenery and the costumes, depicting metaphysical loneliness as well as inhabited by pale ghosts, are by David Roger. The lights are by Steve Whitson and Vladimir Lukasevič.

Gianandrea Noseda directs an outstanding cast

Teatro Regio, Tuesday, 10th January 2012 at 20:00

After the great performance in Fidelio, Gianandrea Noseda is back on the podium of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio to direct Puccini's Tosca, staged as from Tuesday, 10th January, 2012 at 20:00 for a total of eleven performances, until Sunday 22nd of January.

Noseda, the orchestra director, will also conduct the future performance which will take place in Paris on the 24th January at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, continuing like this, the collaboration with the prestigious theatre where, every year, the Regio is asked to present a concert version of an opera.

The staging of the new production – created as a co-production with the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Puccini Festival Foundation – is the work of director Jean-Louis Grinda, a production which has greatly impressed the public of the Valencia Festival of Mediterranean this summer. To complete the production, the set scenes were created by Isabelle Partiot-Pieri; the neoclassical-inspired costumes were created by Christian Gasc and the lighting designer is Robert Venturi. For the triangle of the main characters The Regio puts together an outstanding cast with Svetla Vassileva (Tosca), Marcelo Álvarez (Cavaradossi) and Lado Ataneli (Scarpia).

The Opera Season Begins
A new production written by Martone and directed by Noseda

Teatro Regio, Friday, 9th December, 2011 at 20:00

The new production of Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven will open the opera season at the Teatro Regio on Friday, 9th December at 20:00.

Gianandrea Noseda, who conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio, is the one continuing the journey of Beethoven's compositional universe which began with the resounding success of the nine symphonies performed between September and October. The new layout has been written by the director Mario Martone, author of films such as Morte di un matematico napoletano, L’amore Molesto and his latest Noi credevamo. Martone will make his debut at the Teatro Regio with Fidelio. The Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège co-produced the scenes by Sergio Tramonti; the costumes are by Ursula Patzak and the lighting by Nicolas Bovey.

Loyalty, courage, honour and hope. A personal tragedy – an unjust imprisonment that, miraculously, finds a solution which turns out to be a passionate exaltation of freedom against all the "chains" imposed on mankind. Art lives, as it has never done before Beethoven, in the essence of the passions, of enthusiasm itself,  of the ideals of its own time, and is directly involved, - as pointed out by Massimo Mila – as the movement of ideas,  of spiritual work and simultaneously becomes a leader of its own age. Hence, ‘Il Regio’, chooses this purposefully, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.

The best of classical dance inaugurates the Season

Teatro Regio, from 14 October to 6 November 2011

For the first time in the recent history of the Theatre, on 14 October, dance will be inaugurating the Regio Season. The Ballet of the Teatro Mariinsky of St Petersburg will present all of six titles of great classical dance for a total of 22 performances which are expected to sell out. It all begins with an Homage to Fokin – from 14 to 18  October – that includes the best of the Russian choreographer’s production: the Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, Le Spectre de la rose by Carl Maria von Weber, The Dying Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns and Shéhérazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. This is followed by two ballets created by Marius Petipa: from 21 to 25 October La Bayadère by Ludwig Minkus, never before performed at the Teatro Regio, and, finally, the most classical of all classical ballets, Swan Lake, on stage from 28 October to 6 November. Among the stars of the Mariinsky on stage in Torino there will be: Ekaterina Kondaurova, Uljana Lopatkina, Alina Somova, Viktorija Tereškina, Evgenij Ivančenko, Igor Kolb, Danila Korsuncev and Vladimir Škljarov. The music will be performed live by the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio; in the Polovetsian Dances, the Chorus of the Regio will also participate.

The world premiere of Alessandro Solbiati’s opera, with stage direction by Stefano Poda

Teatro Carignano, Tuesday 20 September 2011 at 8 pm

Donizetti’s masterpiece conducted by Campanella, with the stage direction by Vick

Teatro Regio, Tuesday 21 June 2011 at 8 pm
Broadcast live 21 June at 8 pm on Rai-Radio3

Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti will be on stage at the Teatro Regio from 21 June to 3 July with the beautiful staging created by Graham Vick. On the podium of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio will be maestro Bruno Campanella, one of the most important interpreters of pre-Romantic Italian opera.