San Carlo Theatre Naples
OPERA SEASON
Semiramide - Giacchino Rossini
From the 18th to the 27th of November 2011
Conductor: Gabriele Ferro
Direction: Luca Ronconi
Orchestra and Choir: Teatro San Carlo
After the "Clemenza di Tito", Luca Ronconi comes back to open the Opera San Carlo Season with Semiramide by Rossini. This opera, considered the aesthetic will of the great composer from Pesaro, returns to the San Carlo Opera after 25 years!
Il Marito Disperato - Domenico Cimarosa
From the 6th to the 16th of December 2011
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
Direction: Paolo Rossi
Orchestra: Teatro San Carlo
Paolo Rossi and Domenico Cimarosa ideally reopen to the public, for the first time after its restoration, the doors of the Teatrino di Corte of the Royale Palace. After the huge success of criticism of the "Matrimonio Segreto", his opera directorial debut, Rossi returns to face with the famous composer with the staging of "Il Marito Disperato", a dramma giocoso that promises to enhance at the best comic and interpretative skills.
The Gershwins Porgy and Bess - George Gerswhin, Du Bose, Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gerswin
From the 10th to the 15th of January 2012
Conductor: William Barkhymer
Director: Baayork Lee and Larry Marshall
Company: New York Harlem Theatre
Orchestra: Teatro San Carlo
The popular American work crosses the doors of the oldest Opera theatre in the world. The New York Harlem Theatre brings to the San Carlo the ambitious modern melodrama by Gershwin, a wonderful musical epic of coloured people, passionate of jazz, blues and spirituals.
L'opera di tre soldi - Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weill
From the 17th to the 21st of January 2012
Conductor: Francesco Lanzillotta
Direction: Luca De Fusco
The provocative work by Brecht arrives at the San Carlo in a brand new version that is a tribute to Naples and the Neapolitans. Lina Sastri and Massimo Ranieri, directed by Luca Fusco, will be the protagonists of this social insight, created for the proletariat but whose success was confirmed by the bourgeoises of the time.
Lucia di Lammermoor - Gaetano Doninzetti
From the 10th to the 18th of February 2012
Conductor: Donato Renzetti
Direction: Gianni Amelio
Choral Director: Salvatore Caputo
Orchestra and Choir: Teatro San Carlo
The most famous work of Gaetano Doninzetti comes back to the theatre where it was performed for the first time in September 1835 in a new version of Gianni Amelio. A classic reinterpreted with a contemporary artist of great sensitivity.
Don Trastullo - Niccolò Iommelli
From the 2nd to the 11th of March 2012
Conductor: Maurizio Agostini
Orchestra and Choir: Teatro San Carlo
The trick of love played by cunning Arsenia to haughty Don Trastullo is the heart of this funny intermezzo of neapolitan colours signed by the composer Niccolò Iommelli, author of high art concepts defined in the evolution of the Neapolitan Opera Seria.
I Masnadieri - Giuseppe Verdi
From the 21st to the 31st of March 2012
Conductor: Nicola Luisotti
Direction: Gabriele Lavia
Choral Director: Salvatore Caputo
Orchestra and Choir: Teatro San Carlo
The San Carlo presents one of the less represented dramas of Verdi, directed by Gabriele Lavia. The great artist returns to prepare after 25 years, the staging of the work by Verdi inspired by the famous text by Shiller, that several times has seen him as a successfull protagonist.
La Boheme - Giacomo Puccini
From the 18th to the 31st of May 2012
Conductor: Andrea Battistoni
Direction: Lorenzo Amato
Choral Director: Salvatore Caputo
After the great success of the Tosca in the last season, Puccini returns to the San Carlo with one of his most touching work. The Orchestra is directed by one of the most promising italian's talents: Andrea Battistoni.
Les Pecheurs de perles - Georges Bizet
From the 16th to the 25th of October
Direction: Fabio Sparvoli
Chorla director: Salvatore Caputo
Orchestra, Choir and Corps de Ballet: Teatro San Carlo
Considered the first masetrpiece of Bizet's operas, Les Pecheurs de perles, exotic opera, often misunderstood and with a trobled life, is revived by the San Carlo in its original language. Fabio Sparvoli, who has worked with great artists like Strehler and De Simone, has accepted the challenge of complicated director of this majestic work, conquered by its atmospheres and its "sublime music".
BALLET SEASON
Il Pipistrello - From the 14th to the 19th of April
Choreography: Roland Petit
Music: Johann Strauss
A fortunate ballet with music by Johann Strauss Jr, Il Pipistrello by Roland Petit was born as a commission of Princess Grace of Monaco. It was staged for the first time in June 1979 in Montecarlo until today and has been performed all around the world.
SIMPHONIC SEASON
Recital Andras Schiff
On the 24th of November 2011
Piano: Andras Schiff in collaboration with Associazione Scarlatti
The Hungarian Master Andras Schiff, winner in1990 of the Grammy Award for best instrumental solo performance, performs a series of variations of one of the gratest composers of the European musical scene.
Diego Matheuz/ Orchestra Simon Bolivar
On the 28th of November 2011
Conductor: Diego Matheuz
Orchestra Simon Bolivar
In collaboration with Associazione Scarlatti
Debut at San Carlo for the young talents of the System Abren in a night entirely dedicated to the Venezuelan young music talents appreciated in the world. Diego Matheuz, twenty - eight years old conducts the Simon Bolivar in a concert that wants to pay homage to great European musicians like Ravel and Berlioz, but also the vital exuberance of Latin American music of Moncayo.
James Conlon/Jennifer Frautschi
On the 3rd and the 4th of December 2011
Conductor: James Conlon
Violin: Jennifer Frautschi
Orchestra: Teatro San Carlo
The excellence of James Conlon meets the young and eclectic talent of the Merican violinist Jennifer Frautschi on the stage of the Oldest Opera theatre in the world: the two artists will perform a piece of Barber, coming from their same country, and in the Symphony n° 4 in F minor by Cajkovskij dominated by the theme, so dear to the author of the inevitability of fate.
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