(Peter Stein's Macbeth from Salzburger Festspiele, credit Silvia Lelli)
While OC's opera-loving NYC friends anticipate September for the American opera launch season, we play by different rules in Italy. Or we take things a little slower. The cold, early-winter weather brings the openings of the Italian opera houses (well, most of them anyway) nicely aligning with the holiday season (we're pragmatists at heart). For OC's latest piece for her Stasera Esco column, she picked her top 5 Italian opera season opening nights for 2011/12 (including the post-dated Peter Stein Macbeth that opened Opera dell'Teatro di Roma on Sunday night). Frankly, it was hard to narrow it all down, but this is where we'd be if we could be everywhere.
Read all about it here! If your Italian's rusty, well, c'mon, this you can figure out.
Guess you meant Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, not «Opera del Teatro»...
Posted by: Giochini | December 01, 2011 at 08:03 AM
If I had to choose one, it would be Don Giovanni, based on the cast alone. What could beat a line-up of Trebs, Bryn Terfel, Barbara Frittoli, Barenboim and Mozart?
Posted by: Rose-Mary Hyslop | December 01, 2011 at 09:48 AM
That La Scala Don G. is being shown in movie theaters in many countries, and I'll be sure to check it out here in NYC. Not the same as live, but a bit cheaper than a plane ticket to Milan.
Posted by: Jamie | December 02, 2011 at 06:14 PM
Muti in Catania on Nov. 30th to get another prize.
He said some beautiful words about culture and its impact to the humanity.
http://www.cataniatoday.it/eventi/riccardo-muti-premio-paolo-borsellino.html
Posted by: Frank | December 02, 2011 at 09:43 PM
How can you possibly not mention the star of the Don G. PETER MATTEI? The best reason to drive two hours north to see it!
Posted by: laddie | December 03, 2011 at 02:36 AM