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May

Italian Opera the June monthly program

Italian Opera the June monthly program of main events in the most famous Italian theaters and festivals. Don’t waste time and plan your visit to Italy now, a great choice of amazing performances is at hand, wherever you are in these days!

16
March

The genesis of Italian Romantic Opera

The protagonists of romantic operas live love differently than those of the eighteenth-century repertoire. For them love is a complete emotional enrapture. They share this incontrollable passion with a public who generally has a more ordinary life and now, through this new music drama, can experience a total emotional involvement.

06
April

Rigoletto in Mantua | Palazzo Te, the pleasure palace

What is Rigoletto it about? This sounds like a simple question, which could be answered by telling the story of the Duke of Mantua, the city of Mantua, his hunchback jester and the jester’s daughter, Gilda. A story of love, deception, revenge, and death. The story, of course, is so close to the one told by playwright and poet Victor Hugo in his play Le Roi s’amuse (The King has fun), that they could appear the same thing. But anyone who loves opera will not be satisfied by this explanation. In the best operas, music is much more than an accompaniment to the story: it is through the power of music that the story unfolds into the drama. Verdi fell literally in love with Hugo’s play and was determined to translate it into music; despite his librettist Francesco Maria Piave‘s concerns, particularly over the fourth act culminating in the deposition of a dying Gilda in a bag. In a letter dated June 1850, Verdi explains the reasons he suggested as a title for the opera Monterone’s curse or, by the short, The Curse. “The subject is the curse as a moral element: A distraught father who mourns the honor taken away from his daughter, a […]

26
March

Naples | City of music and magic

The Teatro San Carlo, certainly one of the finest and biggest in Europe was opened in 1737. Two years later, in 1739 French politician and writer Charles de Brosses referred to Naples as “the world capital of music”.

Jesi | Wine and Music | Pergolesi and Spontini
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Jesi | Wine and Music | Pergolesi and Spontini

Composers and librettists Places off the beaten track
Jesi, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi hometown Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born in 1710 in
Sara Filippini 21st July 2019
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We aim to give active independent travellers with an interest for music and opera, first hand info and practical suggestion to combine places off the beaten track with the more appealing productions. From the Alps to Sicily we offer the opportunity to choose the personal experience you want to live in the country of music, because there's more than that in Italy. But there's no better place in the world for opera.
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