Opera & Ballet

The show has been rescheduled in April 2021.

The twists of the Gospel story reveal a wide range of human feelings and situations, thanks to the music capable of amazing representative perspicuity. Like a sculpture that comes to life, a monument of musical history materializes on the stage.

A compelling single act set in Renaissance Venice written by a "musical genius" - Mahler's words  - who was only seventeen in 1916. Late-romantic atmospheres painted by an excellent orchestrator for a scabrous story of love and death. Never before performed in Italy!

An opera about seduction with the roles inverted, almost a female Don Juan, Bizet's masterpiece transcends gender distinction in a perfect theatrical mechanism, with situations that embody profound and universal conflicts, such as the one  between freedom and destiny.  

A whole new ballet inspired by Shakespeare and created by the choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot, with his usual Apollonian and very refined taste, for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Scenery and costumes of rare elegance for a ballet in which the classical matrix meets contemporary dance.

A tragedy of violent passions, a story of power and deceit, of female redemption – a woman who defeats a blackmailing policeman had never been seen in an opera before – of a woman  who is overwhelmed by a fatal destiny. Puccini achieves a leap forward and creates a poignant masterpiece.

Set in the fascinating and enthralling Orient, among sinuous seaside dances and majestic temples, this is an extraordinary story of love and friendship woven around the figure of a charming priestess. Seductive music, embellished by great poetic lyrics, created by the future composer of Carmen.

Everyone knows Summertime, but few know that it is one of the wonderful songs of this “folk opera” with which Gershwin ended prematurely his career. Aspects of jazz, spirituals, musicals and theatre are the ingredients of the greatest American opera of the twentieth century, an authentic cross-section of Afro-American life.