It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the world every summer: the opera season at the ancient Arena di Verona. The 2,000-year-old roman amphiteatre with its gigantic stage dimensions is one of the largest and best preserved Roman construction of its kind, and with over 22,000 seats it is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular open-air venues of the world! The revered master of opera Franco Zeffirelli, who died shortly before the premiere of Il Trovatore, created a legendary scenery with groups of giant sized armoured knights, a fortress turning into a luminous cathedral, an enormous choir, horses, breathtaking fights: “his perhaps best arena production” (Opernglas). It brings Anna Netrebko to the Arena of Verona where she is giving her much-anticipated debut in one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most popular operas.
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Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
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Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...
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Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...
The production bears the imprint of the conductor, Marko Letonja, and the director, Tobias Richter, ...
Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the title character in Dvořák’s sumptuously melodic ...
Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in...
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