DONIZETTI OPERA FESTIVAL 2023: SPECIAL EDITION FOR BERGAMO BRESCIA ITALIAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE
opening with LU OpeRave, a new electronic music opera then Il diluvio universale, Alfredo il Grande, Lucie de Lammermoor by Donizetti and Il piccolo compositore di musica by Mayr
The programme includes renowned stars such as Giuliana Gianfaldoni,
DONIZETTI OPERA FESTIVAL 2022: ATTENDED BY OVER 12,000 PEOPLE AND 97 ACCREDITED JOURNALISTS
IN 2023 “IL DILUVIO UNIVERSALE”, “ALFREDO IL GRANDE”, “LUCIE DE LAMMERMOOR”, “IL PICCOLO COMPOSITORE DI MUSICA” AND “LU OpeRave”
31% of online tickets purchased abroad. The percentage rises to 80% among organised groups
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The eighth edition of the Donizetti Opera Festival organized by the Donizetti Theatre Foundation chaired by Giorgio Berta,
Due to very recent health issues preventing him from travelling and working, Plácido Domingo is forced to cancel his journey to Italy in November and has postponed his participation in the Donizetti Opera festival to one of the next editions. The Maestro will, therefore, not be able to star in Donizetti’s Belisario in Bergamo and Verdi’s Requiem in Piacenza. The singer from Madrid enthusiastically accepted the invitation from Donizetti Opera to make his debut in the role of the protagonist of such a rare work as Belisario after a visit to the places related to Donizetti in our city.
Preparations for the titles of the sixth edition of the Donizetti Opera 2020 festival are proceeding at a fast pace, in full compliance with anti-Covid health protocols: the three scheduled Donizetti operas will make their debut in the restored Donizetti Theatre in less than two weeks and will be visible all over the world through the new Donizetti Web TV, created thanks to Fondazione TIM on donizetti.org/tv.
The stringent provisions linked to the DPCM of 3 November and the consequent temporary impossibility to welcome spectators within the theatre forced us to partly rethink the festival and the new schedule of the online programme will be as follows: Friday,
According to the Prime Ministerial Decree of October 24, 2020 we sadly announce that the shows open to the public in theatres and concert halls are suspended.
We will act responsively but will not give up. We will try to keep the Donizetti Opera Festival going with shows both broadcast streaming and performed live. We owe it to Bergamo, to the entertainment workers and to ourselves. Check our pages for all the updates from tomorrow.
The sixth edition of the Donizetti Opera 2020 Festival – with the artistic direction of Francesco Micheli and the musical direction of Riccardo Frizza – has been confirmed and will take place in the period that was originally scheduled, from November 19 to December 6, in Bergamo, “The City of Gaetano Donizetti”. The programme that was announced in February, a few weeks before the outbreak of the pandemic, will be presented almost entirely. Following the restrictions due to the Covid emergency,
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