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La Fenice theatre 2019/2020 season

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OPERA 2019/ 20
 
The 2019-2020 Opera and Ballet Season will open with Don Carlo: in continuation with the previous openings, Myung-Whun Chung will carry on with his interpretation of Verdi’s works. With direction by Robert Carsen, three interpreters will have their debut in the performance: Piero Pretti, Alex Esposito and Julian Kim. This will be followed by Pinocchio by the composer Pierangelo Valtinoni from Vicenza, one of the most frequently performed living composers worldwide, and the twentieth-century diptych A Hand of Bridge by Barber and Bluebeard’s Castle by Bartòk. In addition to the revivals of La traviata and Il trovatore, Verdi’s so-called ‘popular trilogy’ will be completed with the Italian première of a production of Rigoletto, with production by Damiano Michieletto. The programme continues with Vivaldi’s Farnace, conducted by Diego Fasolis. As regards the French repertory, Bizet’s Carmen will be revived, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung, with Varduhi Abrahamyan and Francesco Meli. Two operas that have not been performed in La Fenice for years will also return: firstly, Händel’s Rinaldo with the historic production by Pier Luigi Pizzi, which was reconstructed to pay homage to the maestro who, with this very production initiated the start of an important phase in the rediscovery of Baroque music in 1985; secondly, Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux with direction by Alfonso Antoniozzi. Another première is foreseen for the Venetian Opera House with the diptych including Salieri’s Prima la musica e poi le parole and Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor, once again in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts. The Opera Giovani foresees La serva padrona by Pergolesi and the first modern-day Italian performance of Duse, John Neumeier’s choreographic fantasy. The programme is completed with the great repertory ‘classics’ that will be staged in their historical productions for the Fenice: L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti – with Celso Albelo as Nemorino –, Il barbiere di Siviglia and La cambiale di matrimonio by Rossini, and Aida by Verdi with Piero Pretti who debuts as Radamès.
 
 
CONCERTS 2019/ 20
 
On the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, it is his music that will be one of the key themes of the 2019-2020 Symphony Season. A complete overview of the Bonn born composer’s works will be guaranteed thanks to the performance at La Fenice and Malibran of almost all his symphonies, the Choral Fantasy, the Coriolan overture, Le creature di Prometeo and two Concertos for pianoforte and orchestra. Alongside the regulars invited to La Fenice, other important conductors will have their debut, including Alpesh Chauhan, who will conduct the opening concert, followed by Claus Peter Flor at La Fenice with the Italiana and Riforma Symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Daniel Cohen, with Beethoven’s Fourth and Seventh Symphony; Hartmut Haenchen with Beethoven’s Ninth; Rudolf Buchbinder in the double role of conductor and solo pianist; finally, Ton Koopman, who will link Beethoven’s music with that of Johann Sebastian Bach, another key point of the new Season, marking the two hundred and seventieth anniversary of his death. Prestigious debuts rival those of much-awaited returns, first and foremost that of Myung-Whun Chung, with his multiyear project of interpreting Gustav Mahler’s works: after the Fifth in 2017 and the Second in 2019, the maestro will now conduct the Ninth and Third Symphony. Other returning names include Federico Maria Sardelli with Beethoven, and Marco Angius with the Pastoral, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, and the Intermezzo for Mozart’s Idomeneo by Richard Strauss. The programme includes the traditional date of the Christmas Concert in the Basilica of Saint Mark, with the Choir of the Cappella Marciana under the guidance of Marco Gemmani; the Fenice Choir will sing Alfred Schnittke’s Requiem and the motet “Jesu, meine Freude” by Bach, conducted by Claudio Marino Moretti. The Dresden Staatskapelle – guests this Season – will perform Antonín Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony and Johannes Brahms Fourth, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. Chung will also conduct the orchestra and choir of Teatro La Fenice for the seventeenth edition of the New Year’s Concert at Teatro La Fenice. Last but not least, the “Nuova musica alla Fenice” project will be renewed thanks to support from Fondazione Amici della Fenice; once again, three overtures by young composers will have their world première.
The 2019-2020 Opera and Ballet season comprises over one hundred and fifty performances, from 24 November 2019 to 20 October 2020, with twelve new productions and eight revivals. The symphony programme has increased, with thirteen concerts and eleven repeat performances, from 12 October 2019 to 15 June 2020.

 

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DUSE

from 05 Feb 20 to 09 Feb 20
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La Fenice Theatre
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At the turn of the 20th century, the Italian actress Eleonora Duse was one of the most influential artists worldwide. John Neumeier takes episodes from the life of this great...

Pinocchio

from 13 Dez 19 to 15 Mar 20
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Teatro Malibran
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This two-acter, created in 2001 and revised in 2006 and in 2019, is based on the internationalsteady-seller Le avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (1883), ostensibly a nursery tale but...

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La Traviata

from 04 Jan 20 to 29 Jan 20
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La Fenice Theatre
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When Verdi unveiled La traviata as a “subject of our time”, he hoped this salacious tale would receive a performance in modern dress for its première at La Fenice. Instead, the censors introduced...

Don Carlo

from 24 Nov 19 to 07 Dez 19
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La Fenice Theatre
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Don Carlo is one of the most enigmatic, yet compelling operas Verdi ever composed. The (largely ctional) story takes place in mid-1500s Spain and is loosely based on historical characters after...

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Gioachino Rossini, La Scala di seta

from 20 Sep 19 to 08 Okt 19
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La Fenice Theatre
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other roles to be announced soon
 
Conductor Alvise Casellati
Director Bepi Morassi
Sets & Costumes ...

Salvatore Sciarrino, Luci Mie Traditrici

from 13 Sep 19 to 24 Sep 19
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La Fenice Theatre
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Conductor: Tito Ceccherini

Director: Valentino Villa

Venice : Malibran Theatre

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Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini

from 31 Aug 19 to 05 Okt 19
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La Fenice Theatre
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other roles to be announced soon
 
Conductor ⎮ Manlio Benzi

Director  Àlex Rigola 
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Tosca, Giacomo Puccini

from 25 Aug 19 to 19 Sep 19
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La Fenice Theatre
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cast
 
Tosca Chiara Isotton
Mario Cavaradossi Azer Zada
Scarpa Sebastian Catana...

New Year’s Concert at Teatro La Fenice

from 29 Dez 19 to 01 Jan 20
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La Fenice Theatre
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Myung-Whun Chung is to conduct the seventeenth edition of the New Year’s Concert at Teatro La Fenice. The multiple-award winner Korean...

A HAND OF BRIDGE

from 17 Jan 20 to 25 Jan 20
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La Fenice Theatre
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A Hand of Bridge, opus 35, is a one-acter by Samuel Barber on a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and the shortest opera regularly performed: it lasts about nine minutes. Two unhappily married...

Interno del Teatro Malibran

ENGELBERTA

from 26 Mar 20 to 28 Mar 20
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Teatro Malibran
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Tomaso Albinoni, a prolific composer of concertos, also wrote some fifty full-scale operas, but only Zenobia and Statira are extant in complete form.

Engelberta, on a...

Concerto dell’Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice

16 Jul 20
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La Fenice Theatre
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L’Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice esegue due grandi classici del repertorio: la Serenata in mi bemolle maggiore op. 7 di Richard Strauss e la Serenata n. 10 in si bemolle maggiore KV 361...

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Coro e Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice

05 Jul 20
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La Fenice Theatre
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Il palcoscenico sarà per gli ottoni dell’Orchestra e per le voci del Coro del Teatro La Fenice, che proporranno un programma originale aperto dalla Fanfare for a common Man di...

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Anna Tifu e Marco Schirru

13 Jul 20
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La Fenice Theatre
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Anna Tifu
Vincitrice nel 2007 del prestigioso concorso internazionale George Enescu di Bucharest, Anna Tifu è considerata una delle migliori interpreti della...
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