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The Tsar’s Bride at the Estonian National Opera

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera in four acts Libretto by Ilya Tyumenev based on the drama of the same name by Lev Mey T, 13 October 2016 / 19:00             S, 15 October 2016 / 19:00 World premiere on November 2, 1899 at … Continue reading

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Falstaff at the Landestheather in Linz, Austria

Falstaff, a knight and libertine par excellence, just as hard-drinking as he is chronically bankrupt, has the ingeniously impertinent idea two write two identical love letters to two wives of wealthy citizens. Too bad that the two women know each … Continue reading

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The Barber of Seville at the Royal Swedish Opera

Music by Gioachino Rossini Performed in Italian with Swedish text on surtitles One of opera repertoires’ most witty comedy show with true carnival mood about youth and love down to old age and greed. Barber of Seville premiered in February 1816 … Continue reading

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NORMA at the Edimburgh International Festival with Cecilia Bartoli

5 – 9 August 2016 Festival Theatre Cecilia Bartoli sang the title role in a powerful, passionate production of Bellini’s searing opera masterpiece on love, betrayal and revenge. Since its unveiling at the 2013 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, it has been … Continue reading

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Natalka Poltavka in Kiev on September 9th

Natalka Poltavka Mykola Lysenko Opera in 2 acts Beginning: 9.09.2016 – 19:00 Completion: 20:50 Based on I.Kotliarevsky’s play. Edited by M. Skoryk and A. Solovyanenko. Premiered on the stage of the Kyiv Opera on July 5, 2012. GALLERY   CAST … Continue reading

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Turandot in Vienna at the Wiener Staatsoper. Also on live streaming!!

Turandot Giacomo Puccini 04. September 2016 19:00-21:30|1 Intermission In his last, unfinished opera, Giacomo Puccini once again takes up the theme of love and death. On the one hand, Turandot, for whose love men have to die, on the other … Continue reading

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Il Barbiere di Siviglia sung in Ukranian in Kiev

Libretto by C. Sterbini based on Pierre Beaumarchais’s French comedy Le Barbier de Séville. Translated into Ukrainian by M. Rylskyy. Premiered on the stage of the Kyiv Opera on October 25, 1990. Beginning: 7.09.2016 – 19:00 Completion: 21:35 Sung in … Continue reading

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Better results than ever for the Rossini Opera Festival 2016

Unprecedented success for the XXXVII edition of the Rossini Opera Festival. The box office registered an absolute record in takings (1.158.000 euro) and a number of patrons (17.250) never recorded in the recent history of the event. The percentage of … Continue reading

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Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona

Opera buffa in two acts. Libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on the comedy of the same title by Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais. Music by Gioachino Rossini. Premiered on 20 February 1816 at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. First staged at the … Continue reading

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Falstaff in Frankfurt on September 23, 2016

Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901 Commedia lirica in three acts Libretto by Arrigo Boito based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597) and King Henry IV (1597) first performed February 9th 1893, Teatro alla Scala, Milan Sung in Italian with … Continue reading

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