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Italian Opera the February monthly program

Italian Opera the February 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!

January

IL VIAGGIO DI ROBERTO | Roberto’s journey – from Ravenna to Auschwitz

On October 16, 1943 Roberto and his father were imprisoned in Milan. Two months later the 6th of December they were loaded like cattle in the same coach with other 64 people and left from the infamous platform 21 of Milan train station for a one way journey.

July

Donizetti | Triumph and death

Donizetti moves to Paris in 1834-1835 called, along with Bellini, by Rossini in his capacity as co-director of the Théâtre Italien. In 1843 the first symptoms of a brain disease that rapidly and progressively got worse to degenerate during the summer 1845. Subsequent medical treatments made the situation irreparable and in February 1846 the composer was interned in an institution for mentally ill in Paris.

December

The transition between 18th and 19th century in Opera

Opera, until then the favourite entertainment of aristocracy and educated classes, was going to change radically as a consequence of the French revolution. In the three decades of the rise and fall of Napoleon, opera social function changed completely and irrevocably.

Siracusa | Rossini’s Tancredi

Tancredi: “the simple purity and virginity of genius“ In Stendhal’s opinion Tancredi was Rossini’s best opera.…

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Italian Opera the February monthly program

IL VIAGGIO DI ROBERTO | Roberto’s journey – from Ravenna to Auschwitz

Donizetti | Triumph and death

The transition between 18th and 19th century in Opera

Siracusa | Rossini’s Tancredi

L’Ulisse Errante

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