Giorgio Caoduro interprets Figaro and Diego Godoy performs as Conte Almaviva in Rossini’s masterpiece Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari. The conductor is Renato Palumbo and the stage director Pier Luigi Pizzi.
Representations with Giorgio: 14, 18, 20, 22 September
Representations with Diego: 15, 17, 19, 21 September
This month sees some of our Artists performing at the Bucharest George Enescu Festival.
On 5 September, accompanied by Europa Galante conducted by Fabio Biondi, Sonia Prina appears as Silla and Roberta Invernizzi sings the role of Flavia in Handel’s Silla.
On 8 September, Arianna Vendittelli performs Amantio in Vivaldi’s Giustino with Ottavio Dantone leading the Accademia Bizantina.
No less than five ALLEGORICA Artists are involved in the production of L’Incornazione di Poppea by Monteverdi performed at the Teatro Colón under the direction of Jean-Christophe Spinosi who leads his Ensemble Matheus: Raffaele Pe (Nerone) ∙ Luigi di Donato (Seneca/Littore/Tribuno 2) ∙ Josè Maria Lo Monaco (Ottavia/Virtù/Damigella) ∙ Filippo Mineccia (Ottone) ∙ Juan Sancho (Arnalta/Lucano/Liberto/Soldato 1/Famigliare 1/Console 1)
Dates: 30 August; 1, 3, 4 September
Arianna sings Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Francesco Corti and Les Musiciens du Louvre at the Chaise-Dieu Festival on 29 August.
We discover Roberta Mameli as Ginevra in Handel’s Ariodante at the Drottningholms Slottsteater in a production conducted by Ian Page and staged by Nicola Raab.
Dates: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 August
On 7 August, the Artistic Director of the Innsbruck Festival, Maestro Alessandro De Marchi, conducts the first modern performance of the opera Merope by Riccardo Broschi, Farinelli’s brother. The cast features Arianna Vendittelli as Argia, Filippo Mineccia as Anassandro and Carlo Allemano as Polifonte. That rarity is to be performed again at the Theater an der Wien on 21 October.
Director Sigrid T’Hooft, a specialist in historically informed performances, creates choreographies according to passed-down dance books.
He performs the title role in the first modern representation of Orfeo by Nicola Porpora at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca on 2 August. This rarity is staged by Massimo Gasparon and conducted by George Petrou who is at the head of the Ensemble Armonia Atenea.
Sonia Prina performs as Federica in Verdi’s Luisa Miller at the Barcelona Liceu Opera House with Domingo Hindoyan (conductor) and Damiano Michieletto (stage director).
Dates: 15, 18, 21, 24, 27 July
On 23 July, Ugo performs as Orbazzano in Rossini’s Tancredi in a production conducted by Antonino Fogliani and staged by Jochen Schönleber at the Rossini in Wildbad Belcanto Opera Festival.
Arianna performs the title role, Luigi interprets Ariodate and Riccardo is Elviro in Handel’s Serse under the direction of Ottavio Dantone at the Festival International Opéra Baroque & Romantique in Beaune on 19 July.
A few days later, on 26 July, Luigi De Donato also appears in the roles of Bellone, Huascar, Alvar in the opéra-ballet Les Indes Galantes by Jean-Philippe Rameau at that same Festival under the young French conductor Valentin Tournet who leads the Chapelle Harmonique.