La Scala’s 2026-2027 Opera Season announced
La Scala announces its 2026-2027 Opera Season with 13 titles. It is Myung-Whun Chung’s first season as Music Director.
Juan Diego Flórez
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The Rossini Opera Festival 2026 is announced
The 47th edition of the Rossini Opera Festival will be held in Pesaro from 11 to 23 August 2026.
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The Royal Opera 2025/26 Season
The Royal Opera 2025/26 Season with its new musical director, Jakub Hrůša, and 8 new productions.
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Winners of the 44th edition of the Franco Abbiati Music Critics’ Prize
Winners of Italy’s 44th edition of the Franco Abbiati Music Critics’ Prize have been announced.
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Juan Diego Flórez releases first album on Florez Records: “Zarzuela”
Juan Diego Flórez releases the first album on his new label. ‘Zarzuela’ sees the Peruvian tenor returning to the music through which he approached opera.
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Royal Ballet and Opera announces 2024-2025 Cinema Season
The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced its 2024-2025 Cinema Season including two new opera productions: The Tales of Hoffmann and Die Walküre.
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La Scala announces its 2024-2025 Opera Season
Full details – cast, creative team, conductor – of the 14 operas in La Scala’s 2024-2025 opera season, which opens with La forza del destino.
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The Royal Opera announces its 2024-2025 Season
The Royal Opera season 2024-2025 with presentation, casting, dates and a new name.
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Rossini Opera Festival 2024 presented in New York
The Rossini Opera Festival 2024 will be held in Pesaro from 7 to 23 August with 5 operas, 5 belcanto recitals, and many concerts.
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Juan Diego Flórez interview: my 25 years with Rossini
Juan Diego Flórez sprang to fame 25 years ago at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival. He talks about his long relationship with the composer.
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La Scala welcomes back its stars – season opening 7 December
Despite coronavirus restrictions, La Scala will celebrate the opening of its season 2020-2021 – however long or short it may be – on 7 December, the feast of Saint Ambrose, Milan’s saint’s day.
The starry evening, A riveder le stelle (Seeing the Stars Again), will be broadcast live by Rai Cultura on Italian television’s Rai 1 at 5pm. Riccardo Chailly will conduct, and the director Davide Livermore will use actors and projections to create a context for the starry cast of 24 singers together with La Scala’s dancers.
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[VIDEO] La Scala’s latest interviews with Roberto Bolle and Juan Diego Flórez
Milan’s La Scala may be closed, but the theatre’s Digital Department is working hard.
Five weeks ago, Dominique Meyer, the theatre’s new intendant, started a series of interviews with artists who work in the theatre. The musical director, Riccardo Chailly, was his first ‘guest’, and since then he has talked to the director Davide Livermore, principal dancers Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko, the conductor Michele Mariotti, and singers
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Interview with Juan Diego Flórez who debuts in Ricciardo e Zoraide at Pesaro tonight
Twenty-two years ago, Juan Diego Flórez arrived like a meteorite across the opera firmament. A couple of weeks before his career launching performance, I’d met the young tenor in Milan. He’d flown over from Peru with a work visa just for a handful of days, and was heading to Pesaro to make his Italian debut….
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La Scala, Milan: Opera and Recital Season 2017 – 2018
A pleasing new season at La Scala seems to tick all the right boxes, with half the programming dedicated to the Italian repertoire, some rarities, important international operas and a world premiere. The season will also mark the 40th Anniversary of Riccardo Chailly’s collaboration with the theatre, and the 95th birthday of Franco Zeffirelli. The…
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Carlo Colombara answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? When I was 21. Why did you start singing? For fun. Which singer inspired you most when you were young? Ettore Bastianini. Which singer do you most admire? Boris Christoff. What’s your favourite role? Boris Godunov. What role have you never played but would have liked to?…
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Rossini’s Otello is back at La Scala after 145 years
After 145 years, Rossini‘s Otello is back at La Scala. Incredibly, it hasn’t been performed at the theatre since 1870. A welcome return then for Rossini’s take on Shakespeare’s story, which he and his librettist took some liberties with (a billet-doux instead of a handkerchief and no Cassio), one of the biggest changes being to pump…
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La Scala complete Opera casts and dates: 2014 – 2015
4 December (Preview for young people), 7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 23 December 2014 Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Deborah Warner Sets and costumes: Chloe Obolensky Cast Anja Kampe, Mojca Erdmann, Klaus Florian Vogt, Falk Struckmann, PeterMattei, Kwangchul Youn, Florian Hoffmann Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala New production Teatro…
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Juan Diego Flórez: the world’s most generous tenor?
Somebody might have counted how many times Juan Diego Flórez hit those top notes at last night’s recital at La Scala, whatever, it was a hell of a lot. Although sometimes it felt like being repeatedly hit on the head with a mallet, it was certainly exciting. Being that so few people in the world can…
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Juan Diego Flórez on his future, his family, his colleagues, and the economic crisis
To coincide with his Pesaro appearances this year, Juan Diego Flórez talked with Italy’s Il Corriere della Sera. It was at Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival in 1996 that the young Peruvian suddenly burst on to the world stage when he stepped in to take the leading tenor role in Matilde di Shabran after Bruce Ford became indisposed….
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Juan Diego Florez talks about his fairy-tale wedding, his fans, and being lazy
On the eve of Juan Diego Florez’s Albert Hall concert, The Sunday Times sent a journalist to his home in Pesaro. This beautiful town on Italy’s east coast – home to the Rossini Opera Festival, and where Pavarotti had his much-filmed villa – is where Florez has made his base with his wife and baby although, inevitably,…
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Even Florez is fallible: “a resonant expostulation of “Oh, shit” from the performer”
Juan Diego Florez has been used to glowing reviews since his début at the Rossini Opera Festival. Recently he has started receiving some sterner criticism, and reactions to his latest recital in London was no different. Alexandra Coghlan for The Arts Desk writes: We’ve all seen singers go wrong. Forgetting words, missing entries, skipping verses – it happens often…
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