We are delighted to announce the release of Josè Maria Lo Monaco’s long-awaited debut solo album for which she joins forces with Massimo Mazzeo and Divino Sospiro, one of the leading Portuguese period-instrument orchestras.
Entitled “All’amore immenso” and dedicated to sacred music, the CD contains outstanding works, including world premieres, of great Masters such as Alessandro & Domenico Scarlatti, Bononcini, Caldara, Porpora and Leo who all celebrate here the concept of overwhelming, earthly and heavenly Love, a love which finds its fullest and most universal expression in the figures of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene.
In this recording, Josè Maria Lo Monaco and Massimo Mazzeo present a musical anthology with distinctive features on this very intense theme – it ranges from sparkling virtuosity through languorous singing to melancholic and poignant melodies, immersing us into a world where the earthly and spiritual dimensions join to give free rein to the limitless dramatic and expressive possibilities of Italian Baroque Music.
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Giulio Pelligra makes his debut in the title role of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux in Palermo. Roberto Abbado is at the head of the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Palermo and the staging of the production has been entrusted to Alessandro Talevi. Ugo Guagliardo stars as Gualtiero.
Dates: 20 – 27 Mar. 2022

Luigi De Donato and Leonardo García Alarcón open a new production of Lully’s Atys at Grand Théâtre de Genève. Staging and choreography: Angelin Preljocaj.
Dates: 27 Feb., 1, 3, 6, 8, 10 Mar. 2022
Revival in Versailles: 19, 20, 22, 23 Mar.

At Opernhaus Zürich, Carlo Allemano debuts in the role of Clistene in Pergolesi’s Olimpiade conducted by Ottavio Dantone.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, theatre and music director David Marton had to reconsider his original staging concept and made a documentary film with filmmaker Sonja Aufderklamm by interviewing old people about Pergolesi’s music. On the stage of the opera house, these filmed moments are combined with live sung opera arias.
Dates: 12, 13, 16, 19 Mar. 2022

In a few days, Stefano Poda presents his fascinating and wholly original Alcina staging at Opéra de Lausanne.
The eagerly awaited new production, masterfully conducted by Diego Fasolis, stars Marie Lys as Morgana and Juan Sancho as Oronte who team up with opera icons Franco Fagioli, Lenneke Ruiten and Marina Viotti.
Dates: 6, 9, 11, 13 Mar. 2022

Toi, toi, toi Eleonora Bellocci, who will sing her first Gilda in the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona’s production of Rigoletto by Verdi with Francesco Ommassini (conductor) and Arnaud Bernard (stage director).
Dates: 27 Feb.; 2, 4, 6 Mar. 2022

We are delighted to announce the worldwide representation of the young Countertenor – Male Soprano Federico Fiorio who will debut the role of Sesto in Handel’s Giulio Cesare in a new Carlo Ipata/Matteo Mazzoni production at Teatro Verdi di Pisa.
Dates: 25, 27 Feb. 2022

Giorgio Caoduro appears as Gaudenzio in Rossini’s Signor Bruschino under Michele Spotti and in a mise-en-scène of Barbe & Doucet at Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
Dates: 18, 20, 24, 27 Feb. 2022

Margherita Maria Sala (Aristea), Riccardo Novaro (Clistene) and Luigi De Donato (Alcandro) perform in Vivaldi’s Olimpiade with Jean-Christophe Spinosi leading his Ensemble Matheus.
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris: 16 Feb. 2022
Theater an der Wien: 27 Feb.

Francesca Sassu offers Teatro Regio Torino her Mimì in a new Pier Giorgio Morand/Paolo Gavazzeni & Piero Maranghi production.
Dates: 13, 19, 23, 25, 27 Feb. 2022