Conductor Antonino Fogliani dies at 50
The conductor Antonino Fogliani has died at the age of 50 after a long illness.
La Fenice
-
-
Teatro La Fenice in Venice and Beatrice Venezi – set to become the theatre’s first music director – cut ties
Beatrice Venezi will no longer be music director at Teatro La Fenice in Venice after the conductor’s interview with the Argentine newspaper La Nación.
-
Interview: Annalisa Stroppa on her God-given voice – the joy, responsibility, emotion… and gratitude.
I talked with Annalisa Stroppa, one of the world’s most sought-after mezzosopranos, on conductors and directors, her family, religion and a singer’s life.
-
news | dance | music & opera
Manuel Legris and Dominique Meyer – the Frenchmen are not welcome to remain at La Scala
Manuel Legris and Dominique Meyer both to ‘step down’ from their roles at La Scala after the 2024-2025 season.
-
[Interview] Talking with soprano Eleonora Buratto about Hoffmann, perfume and spumante
While Eleonora Buratto is singing in Les contes d’Hoffmann in Milan, I talked to her about the opera, her perfume, her charity work, and New Year’s fizz.
-
Rome Opera Season 2022-2023
The Rome Opera season has been announced with nine programmes to be staged during 2022-2023.
-
Operas and concerts streaming from Italy
A list of streaming events – operas and concerts – from Italy’s opera houses available over the coming weeks.
-
La Scala stages an evening of ballet to raise funds to aid the flooded Teatro Fenice in Venice
On Friday 29 November, La Scala will add an extra performance of its triple bill which opens tomorrow night, and the entire proceeds will go to aid Venice’s Teatro Fenice which finds itself flooded after water in the canals has risen more than 1.50 meters. The theatre’s season was to have opened on 24 November…
-
Mariella Devia’s extraordinary three queens at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo
How extraordinary is Mariella Devia. In 2006 she gave her final performances as Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala, leaving the public astonished that she was saying goodbye to the role after witnessing the perfection of her voice at 58. The day after her 65th birthday she sang Norma for the first time — a…
-
Maria José Siri answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? I started as a young girl… for as long as I can remember. Why did you start singing? I started by accident. I was supposed to go to my saxophone class, but I was given the wrong day and time of the lesson, and therefore I found…
-
How much are singers, conductors and directors paid?
Italy’s Classic Voice magazine has published a list of the current maximum fees paid by the Italian opera houses, and, surprisingly – though according to many singers I know, not surprisingly – the length of time that some artists have to wait to receive their payment. €30,000 is currently the top for conductors such as Barenboim,…
-
Riccardo Muti’s Ernani cancelled amid chaos at Rome Opera
After yesterday’s meeting between unions and Rome City Council at Campidoglio, a union representative said that there was “zero chance that Ernani would go ahead, either for 27 November [the opening of the opera season] or the subsequent performances”. Massive job losses are expected at Rome Opera after it was announced that the theatre would…
-
Premier danseur Alessio Carbone puts on a tutu and wonders about having the body of Gisele and the voice of Bartoli
Alessio Carbone is a Premier Danseur at the Paris Opera. He comes from a family of dancers. His father, Giuseppe Carbone, was the director of the company at Milan‘s La Scala and his mother, Iride Sauri, was a prima ballerina at the La Fenice theatre in Venice. His sister dances at La Scala and his…
-
Giuseppe Picone answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? I started when I was 10 years old at the Teatro San Carlo ballet school in Naples. Why did you start dancing? My elder brother Raffaele took me to the audition and I fell in love with ballet immediately. Till then I had no idea of what ballet was….
-
Gramophone Magazine’s Classical Music Awards 2011 – shortlists
Gramophone‘s shortlists are out for this year’s awards. No real surprises, but then those Gramophone people have great taste! Here’s a sample: Opera: Die Zauberflöte – René Jacobs; Akademie für Alte Musik Ermione – David Parry; LPO Verdi‘s Otello – Colin Davis; LSO Solo Vocal: Richard Rodney Bennett, Songs before Sleep – Sophie Daneman; Susan Bickley; Iain Burnside Britten, Songs & Proverbs…
End of content
End of content