Opera & Ballet

La giara

Two new productions conducted by Andrea Battistoni: La giara by Alfredo Casella – a new ballet commissioned by the Teatro Regio from the Compagnia Zappalà Danza – and Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni in the new staging created by Gabriele Lavia.

Il trovatore

«Exquisite and vivid, with scenes of great power»: it is Verdi’s words that best describe one of the most noir operas of all time, immortalized by such arias as Di quella pira and Stride la vampa. The force of his music and the devastating passion cannot leave you indifferent.

Agnese

Comicality, action and a happy ending for the opera by Ferdinando Paer in its first modern performance. Diego Fasolis conducts the Orchestra and Chorus at the Regio. Leo Muscato directs the new production

Rigoletto

Teatro Regio continues and completes its dedication to Giuseppe Verdi's popular trilogy with Rigoletto, an opera that, since 1851, has continued to disturb the sensitivity of spectators due to the coarseness of its themes and the ambivalence of its protagonist, at the same time a very tender father and a cruel executioner.

Porgy and Bess

Everyone knows Summertime, but few know that it is one of the wonderful songs of this “folk opera” with which Gershwin ended prematurely his career. Aspects of jazz, spirituals, musicals and theatre are the ingredients of the greatest American opera of the twentieth century, an authentic cross-section of Afro-American life.

La giara

Defying the censorship of the time like never before, Verdi stages a drama full of humanity, bringing to life a unique figure in the world of opera. A tragedy that brutally underscores the love of a father for his daughter which is crushed by the cynicism of society.

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