Teatro Regio

Ghosts, love, madness, and revenge are the mainstays of this “opéra romantique” version of Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas. While it adds new episodes to the Shakespearean tragedy, making room for colourful dances and choruses, at the same time it preserves the original’s darker and more violent scenes, taken to new heights by extraordinary music.

Only one opera moved Tchaikovsky to tears while he was composing it: The Queen of Spades. The tragedy of Hermann, a man whose obsession with gambling leads him to lose all hope for happiness and love, inspired the composer to write his most moving and harrowing arias.

Rigoletto is a tragic and grotesque story that powerfully captures the fine line between good and evil. A masterpiece by Verdi, it is an opera without a hero, studded with memorable classics, from “La Donna è Mobile” to the love duet “È il Sol dell’Anima.”

While the elixir of love sold by the charlatan Dulcamara is an authentic fraud, Donizetti’s opera L’Elisir d’Amore is instead truly miraculous, comically funny and heart-wrenching at the same time, with the romantic tale of Nemorino and Adina told through delightful arias, duets and choruses.

A kaleidoscope of fairy melodies among white snowflakes: a celebration that is renewed every Christmas