Giorno di Nozze / Vieni qui Carla / Il tè delle tre | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-08-28 20:30 - 2025-08-31 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | Teatro Caio Melisso, Piazza del Duomo, 4, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
20th-century Opera
The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale offers a Triptych of operas by Gino Negri (1919-1991), author of both music and librettos: Giorno di nozze (1958), a short opera for soprano, recorded voice, piano, violin, organ, guitar and guns; Vieni qui Carla (1954), a one-act opera inspired by Moravia’s famous novel Gli indifferenti for soprano, baritone and 10 instruments; and Il tè delle tre (1958), a one-act musical farce for 3 singers and 8 instrumentalists, three of whom are also given mimic roles.
Singer Stefano Belisari, known as Elio, was cast in Giorno di nozze for a recorded part (a song the protagonist hears on the radio).
Conceived as a kind of performance in the form of a Prologue and two one-acts, the Triptych will feature Marco Angius conducting the musical ensemble. Direction, sets and costumes are by Pier Luigi Pizzi. For the Milanese artist, who has to his credit dozens and dozens of performances in the world’s most prestigious theaters, this is a long-awaited debut at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale.
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Conduction, scenes and costumes: Pier Luigi Pizzi
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Giorno di Nozze

Marina: Giorgia Costantino | Kristýna Kůstková
Butler (mime): Antonio Vicentini
Vieni qui Carla
Carla: Gaia Cardinale | Beatrice Caterino
Leo: Alberto Petricca | Dario Sogos
Il tè delle tre
Soprano a sorpresa: Luca Giacomelli Ferrarini | Paolo Mascari
Favetta: Eleonora Benetti | Chiara Latini
Splendore: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione
Ornella (mime, vibraphone): Marco Eugeni
A répetiteur (piano): Antonio Vicentini
A decrepit butler (mime): Jacopo Spamapanato
Ensemble Calamani of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
28, 29, 30 August | 8:30 pm
31 August | 5:00 pm
Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto (PG)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-12 20:00 - 2025-09-16 12:30 | Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, Via Vaita Sant'Andrea, 20, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
12 and 13 September | 8:00 pm
14 September | 4:30 pm
15 and 16 September (shows for schools) | 9:30 am
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, Spoleto (PG)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-18 09:30 - 23:30 | Teatro Morlacchi, Piazza Francesco Morlacchi, 13, Perugia, PG, 06123, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
18 September (show for schools) | 9:30 am
18 September | 8:00 pm
Teatro Morlacchi, Perugia (PG)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-20 16:30 - 20:00 | Cinema Politeama Clarici, Via Garibaldi, 147, Foligno, PG, 06034, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
20 September | 4:30 pm
Cinema Politeama Clarici, Foligno (PG)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-21 16:30 - 20:00 | Teatro degli Illuminati, Via Fucci, 12, Citta di Castello, PG, 06012, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
21 September | 4:30 pm
Teatro degli Illuminati, Città di Castello (PG)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-22 16:30 - 20:00 | Teatro Mancinelli, Corso Cavour, 122, Orvieto, TR, 05018, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
22 September | 4:30 pm
Teatro Mancinelli, Orvieto (TR)

Le Nozze di Figaro | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2025-09-23 20:00 - 2025-09-24 23:30 | Teatro Comunale of Todi, Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 15, Todi, PG, 06059, Italy
The 79th Sperimentale Opera Season 2025 ends with a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro, an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. This masterpiece, which premiered in Vienna in 1786, is a comedy of intrigue and deception that lays bare a dizzying, deeply human gallery of feelings and moods. The latter aspect distinguishes it from its source, the drama of the same name contained in Beaumarchais’ Figaro Trilogy, which is more devoted to the reasons for biting social and political criticism.After Don Giovanni (2022), the staging of Mozart’s Dapontian Trilogy thus continues. The performance is conducted by Marco Angius, the direction and sets are by Henning Brockhaus, for a production marked by the theme of eroticism as a key to self-consciousness and knowledge of the world. Costumes are by Giancarlo Colis.
The opera will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto (Sept. 12, 13, 14: performances open to the public; Sept. 15 and 16: performances for schools) and at main theaters in the Umbria region: Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia (Sept. 18), Politeama Clarici in Foligno (Sept. 20); Teatro degli Illuminati in Città di Castello (Sept. 21), Teatro Mancinelli in Orvieto (Sept. 22); Teatro Comunale in Todi (Sept. 23 and 24).
Performers
Direction: Marco Angius
Direction and scenes: Henning Brockhaus
Costumes: Giancarlo Colis
Coreography: Valentina Escobar
Light designer: Eva Bruno
Figaro: Nicolò Lauteri | Mattia Ribba | Marco Gazzini
Susanna: Kristýna Kůstková | Eleonora Benetti | Sara Di Santo | Gaia Cardinale
Contessa: Lorena Cesaretti | Giorgia Costantino | Francesca Paoletti | Viktoriia Balan
Conte: Andrea Ariano | Marco Guarini | Stepan Polishchuk
Cherubino: Emma Alessi Innocenti | Francesca Lione | Francesca Mercuriali
Marcellina: Elena Finelli | Chiara Latini
Bartolo/Antonio: Sathya Gangale | Davide Romeo
Basilio/Don Curzio: Nicola Di Filippo | Joaquin Echave Cangemi
Barbarina: Beatrice Caterino | Ariadna Vilardaga
Calamani Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Choir and Technicians del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Representations
23 and 24 September | 8:00 pm
Teatro Comunale, Todi (PG)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Un Concert de Noël | Hortus Harmonicus Festival
2025-12-14 21:00 - 22:30 | Shrine of Montenero, Piazza di Montenero, 9, Livorno, LI, 57128, Italy
I musici del Gran Principe
Samuele Lastrucci, conductor

Lili Aymonino, dessus
Valentina Fin, dessus
Emma Alessi Innocenti, dessus
Gabriel Belkheiri, haute contre
Marco Angioloni, taille
Francesco Masilla, basse
Matteo Saccà, violin
Rossella Pugliano, violin
Giulia Serio, baroque flute
Giuditta Isoldi, baroque flute
Johanna Lopez,
Tommaso Tarsi, theorbo

Programme
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
Antiphona sine organo ad virginem “Sub tuum præsidium”, H. 28
In Assumptione Beata Mariae Virginis, H. 353
Ad beatam Virginem canticum, H. 340
Salve Regina H. 27
Magnificat, H. 73
Litanies de la Vierge, H. 83
Notes to the program
The Marian nucleus presented here offers an exemplary sample of the Charpentierian synthesis between Italian vocabulary learned from Carissimi and elegant French taste. French chapel forms and organics parade in the chosen program, from the bare splendor of the “Antiphona sine organo ad Virginem” H. 28 (Sub tuum praesidium), for three a cappella dessus, to the sweeping fresco of the “In Assumptione Beatae Mariae Virginis” H. 353, where choral and solo invocations, imitative-concert sections alternate episodes of relaxation with litanean refrains. The canticle “Ad beatam Virginem” H. 340 chisels a trio Haute-contre, Taille and Basse with concertante instruments and continuo, in fine timbral balance and affective suspensions. The “Salve Regina” H. 27, is conceived as a solo intermediate entrusted to the soprano voice. The “Magnificat” H. 73 distills the poetics of the male voice trio on chaconne bass, varying the affects between humilitas and exaltatio. The “Litanies de la Vierge” H. 83 closes: chain of invocations according to Parisian praxis, with luminous progressions, persuasive modulations and wide-ranging devotional culmination.
Free admission subject to availability

Christmas Concert | Teatro Caio Melisso (Spoleto)
2025-12-17 20:30 - 22:30 | Teatro Caio Melisso, Piazza del Duomo, 4, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto is pleased to invite you to its Christmas Concert 2025, to be held on Wednesday , Dec. 17 , 2025, 8:30 p.m. at the Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto.
A moment of reflection, illuminated by the high degree of melodic and polyphonic invention typical of Antonín Dvořák, author of the Symphony from the New World, is followed by a more festive and light-hearted moment at the end of which it will be spontaneous to raise a glass to wish each other Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
It will be possible to purchase tickets on the Ticket Italia website at the following link: https://ticketitalia.com/concerto-di-natale-teatro-caio-melisso-spoleto-17-dicembre-2025. For information: 0743.221645.
Programme
Various Authors, Christmas Carols
Antonín Dvořák
Mass in D major for 4 soloists, choir and organ
for soloists, choir, strings and organ
Conductor, Mauro Presazzi
Beatrice Caterino, soprano
Emma Alessi Innocenti, mezzo-soprano
Joaquin Cangemi, tenor
Nicolò Lauteri, bass

Soloists and Choir of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale

"San Filippo Neri" Oratorio - A. Scarlatti | Festival del '700 Musicale Napoletano
2025-12-28 20:00 - 21:30 | Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, Via Portamedina, 41, Naples, NA, 80134, Italy
Festival «18th Century Apotheosis of Naples, Capital of Music»
promoted by the Domenico Scarlatti Association

San Filippo Neri
Oratorio in two parts for 4 voices with Instruments, Rome, 1705.
Music by Alessandro Scarlatti – Libretto by Pietro Ottoboni

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | Advanced course in Baroque singing. Teacher: Sara Mingardo

San Filippo Roberto Manuel Zangari tenor
Carità Maddalena De Biasi soprano
Fede Emma Alessi Innocenti mezzo-soprano
Speranza Zoreslava Vynnyk alto

Orchestra da Camera di Napoli
conductor Enzo Amato

The Oratorio San Filippo Neri, composed in Rome in 1705, is a masterpiece by Alessandro Scarlatti with a libretto by Pietro Ottoboni. This emblematic Baroque composition reflects Scarlatti’s extraordinary talent for blending vocal intensity with refined orchestration, engaging in an open artistic dialogue with the great European masters of his era. The four soloists embody powerful Christian allegorical characters: Roberto Manuel Zangari gives voice to St. Philip, Maddalena de Biasi interprets Charity, Zoreslava Vynnyk lends her alto voice to Faith and Emma Alessi Innocenti takes on the role of Hope. The Naples Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Enzo Amato, accompanies the theatrical and spiritual expressions of this work, which embodies the Neapolitan musical tradition and its European influence.
This concert invites audiences to immerse themselves in a reimagined early 18th-century atmosphere, celebrating Alessandro Scarlatti as a pivotal figure in Baroque music and as a bridge between European artistic cultures.

Berenice vendicativa (D. Freschi) | Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza
2026-04-17 20:30 - 23:00 | Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, Piazza Matteotti, 11, Vicenza, VI, 36100, Italy
On Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18, 2026, the modern premiere of the opera Berenice vendicativa will be held at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. This drama in music by Domenico Freschi (Valrovina di Bassano del Grappa, 1634 – Vicenza, 1710) to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piccioli and Giorgio Maria Rapparini is a gem of the great Venetian Baroque all to be discovered: there could be no better opportunity for this opera to shine again with the two special evenings in the world’s oldest indoor theater.
This work inaugurates the three-year project L’Effimero e il Perenne (The Transient and the Eternal), which the Accademia Olimpica intends to dedicate between 2026 and 2028 to the Teatro Olimpico, Domenico Freschi, and the great Vicenza and Veneto culture of the seventeenth century.
Francesco Erle has been entrusted with conducting, while Roberto Cuppone will take care of the stage direction.
Fourteen singers will alternate in the seven roles in the two evenings: mezzo-soprano Emma Alessi Innocenti and soprano Jimin Oh (Berenice); mezzo-sopranos Maria Giuditta Guglielmi and Nina Cuk (Farnace); sopranos Minyoung Park and Alice Fraccari (Celinda); mezzo-sopranos Iryna Shteiner and Chiara Ceccarelli (Osmano); sopranos Claudia Floris and Aoki Onaka (Alceste); sopranos Gloria Ferro and Anna Rigotti (Nicomede); and mezzo-sopranos Luisa Torresan and Bogdana Pechenevska (Creonte). Dancer Roberta Piazza completes the cast.
The instrumental part is entrusted to the ensemble L’Arte dell’Arco, for the occasion composed of Federico Guglielmo (I violin), Alessia Pazzaglia (II violin), Matteo Rozzi (viola), Caterina Colelli (cello), Michele Gallo (violone), Gregorio Carraro (oboe and flutes), Arrigo Pietrobon (oboe, bombard and flutes), Michele Santi (trumpet), Gianluca Geremia (lutes) and Lorenzo Feder (harpsichord).
The production team includes, among others: Mauro Zocchetta, collaboration on direction and set design; Carlo Presotto, video projections; Luciano Padovani, choreography consulting; Davide Gagliani, light designer; and Antonia Munaretti, costume and prop elements. Ceneo’s severed head is made by mascheraro Stefano Perocco of Meduna.
The production of Berenice Vendicativa for the Teatro Olimpico is based on musicological work done by Francesco Erle and Sebastiano Franz on the manuscript preserved in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, in the Fondo Contarini.
The event is sponsored by the Accademia Olimpica, in partnership with the Vicenza Chamber of Commerce, under the patronage of the Veneto Region and with the sponsorship and support of the Province of Vicenza, the Municipality of Piazzola sul Brenta, the Piazzola Futura Foundation and the Vicenza University Service Center – CSUV.
Prices
° Full ticket: 30 euros
° Reduced ticket: 20 euros (over 60; Olympic Academics; members of the Schola San Rocco Choral Association; Astra Theater subscribers)
° Special under-25 ticket: 10 euros.
Tickets available from Wednesday, April 1 at
° Astra Theater Office in Vicenza contrà Barche, 55 open to the public Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 5:45 p.m.; tel 0444323725; info@teatroastra.it
° online at vivaticket.it and teatroastra.it
For information
segreteria@accademiaolimpica.it

Awakening 2026: Flower, Muse of the Arts - Flower Catalogue
2026-05-02 19:00 - 21:45 | Botanical garden of Padua University, Via Orto botanico, 15, Padua, PD, 35123, Italy
SATURDAY, MAY 2 – 7 and 8:30 p.m. (duration 75 minutes)
Storytelling between music, cinema and botany
with Marco Angius, Mariacristina Villani, Luca Di Lorenzo
with Voice Emma Alessi Innocenti
and musicians from the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto
Activities included in the admission ticket | By reservation only
Please note that the ticket includes a visit to the Botanical Garden on the day of the event, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
In a sensory journey between arts and science, Darius Milhaud’s Catalogue de fleurs (1920) becomes the subtle plot that unites three gazes: the musical one of Marco Angius, the cinematic one of Luca Di Lorenzo and the botanical-narrative one of Mariacristina Villani. Flower after flower, short live performances intertwine with images, stories and film fragments, building a path in which music, cinema and botany continuously dialogue. The flower thus emerges as form, symbol and rhythm, crossing different languages and opening connections between scientific observation and imagination.
From the scent of violets to the geometries of fritillaries, from the purity of lilies to the passion of roses, each species reveals a real, poetic and visual world. In closing, the full performance of the piece restores the unity of listening, letting the interweaving of the arts and the audience’s gaze emerge.
The event is held at the University of Padua Botanical Garden in the Botanical Theater.
Online reservations available beginning Friday, April 17.

Apollo and Dionysus: the duel of creation | Baroque concert
2026-06-06 11:00 - 12:30 | Chiesa del Suffragio, Corso della Repubblica, 5-1, Forlì, FC, 47121, Italy
The concert Apollo and Dionysus: the duel of creation was born on the occasion of the exhibition Baroque. the Great Theatre of the Ideas , which will be held at the Museo Civico San Domenico in Forlì from Feb. 21 to June 28, 2026.
This musical project, supported by the Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì, features the baroque ensemble Delirium Amoris in collaboration with mezzo-soprano Emma Alessi Innocenti. The concert will explore the relationship between order and chaos, form and passion, and will feature performances of several pages from the Italian Baroque:
Francesco Maria Veracini (1690–1768)
Sonata VIII in mi minore
for violin and continuo, from Opus 2 (1744)
Andante · Allegro · Siciliana · Allegro assai
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725)
Notte, ch’in carro d’ombre
Cantata for soprano and continuo
Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724–1808)
Pasticcio Sonata
for cello, violin and continuo
Adagio · Allegro · Minuetto
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Orfeo
Cantata for soprano and continuo
«Orfeo — che farò senza Euridice»

The concert will take place Saturday, June 6 (11 a.m.) in the beautiful Baroque setting of the Suffrage Church (or Church of St. Mary of the Visitation) in Forli.
Free admission subject to availability.

The ancient on stage: Händel's Giulio Cesare (Teatro del Maggio)
2026-06-10 16:30 - 18:00 | Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Piazza Vittorio Gui, 1, Florence, FI, 50144, Italy
On the occasion of Georg Friedrich Händel’s Giulio Cesare, a conference presenting the opera will be held at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, entitled The ancient on stage: Giulio Cesare by Händel. The event is part of the Parlando d’opera series organized by the Teatro del Maggio in collaboration with Il Foyer – Amici della Lirica di Firenze.
The lecture will be given by musicologist, pianist and conductor Martino Ruggero Dondi, who will not only introduce the audience to this Baroque masterpiece, but also perform arias from the opera on the piano along with Anna Vigori (soprano, Cleopatra), Emma Alessi Innocenti (mezzo-soprano, Sesto) and Sebastiano Silvestri (contraltist, Giulio Cesare).

Wednesday 10 June, 4.30 pm
Teatro del Maggio – Balcony’s Foyer
Admission is free subject to availability

Una promessa infranta | Teatro Lirico Sperimentale (Spoleto)
2026-08-20 20:30 - 2026-08-23 19:00 | Teatro Caio Melisso, Piazza del Duomo, 4, Spoleto, PG, 06049, Italy
The second event of the 80th Season of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale is dedicated to contemporary music, with the staging of Una promessa infranta, a chamber opera composed on commission by Federico Gardella, with a libretto by Cecilia Ligorio, who is also the director. Sets and lighting will be by Alberto Favretto and costumes by Clelia De Angelis.
«Una promessa infranta – Gardella explains – is a one-act opera based on the short story of the same name by Lafcadio Hearn (an Irish writer who was born in Greece and lived in Japan), which is inscribed in the very ancient tradition of Japanese ghost stories, the Kwaidan. Love lost and then found (and then lost again), fear, guilt, are the feelings that act on the characters, inextricably intertwining them with each other. The inner world, with its uncanny bearing, represents the place where this story happens and defines the sound with which we try to investigate the depths of the human ».
Mimma Campanale is serving as music director, returning to Spoleto for this new production: «I am very happy to return to Spoleto to conduct another world premiere. The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale has always made the discovery and promotion of new talent its mission, exploring the uncharted territories of new music with sensitivity and courage. Last year, with Nanof, l’altro, we explored the twists and turns of mental illness; this year, sound will become a vehicle for fear and torment in a story where the dark tones of the psychological thriller will be counterpointed by the poetry of ancient Eastern traditions. ».

Singers from the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Soloists from the V. Calamani Umbrian Philharmonic Orchestra
New production in its world premiere

Dates and schedules
Thursday, August 20, 8:30 p.m. (preview) | Friday, August 21, 8:30 p.m. |
Sabato 22 agosto, ore 18.00 | Domenica 23 agosto, ore 17.00
Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto (PG)
Tickets
Section I (orchestra and orchestra boxes) €25.00*
Section II (box seats) €20.00*
balcony seats €15.00* | reduced** €15.00*
*excluding advance booking fees
** reduced rate: under 30, over 65, affiliated associations and organizations
Tickets can be purchased through Ticket Italia at authorized retailers and on the website at the following link: https://ticketitalia.com/teatro/80-stagione-lirica-sperimentale-2026.
