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,
The jury of the 39th edition of “Abbiati” Award has nominated the winners for the year 2019: the Special Award goes to a production of the Donizetti Opera festival, the world premiere in stage form of the Gaetano Donizetti’s opera L’ange de Nisida with the direction of Francesco Micheli at the Site of Donizetti Theatre in Bergamo last November.
«We are delighted to receive the news of this award during such a difficult period – Francesco Micheli states excitedly – The recognition of the critical is important for all of us,
BELISARIO INAUGURATES THE DONIZETTI OPERA FESTIVAL 2020 AND BRINGS THE OPERA BACK TO THE RESTORED DONIZETTI THEATRE
PLACIDO DOMINGO PROTAGONIST
RICCARDO FRIZZA ON THE PODIUM AND A CAST OF GREAT INTERPRETERS
The Bergamo festival will take place at the Donizetti Theatre and at the Sociale Theatre from the 19th of November to the 6th of December 2020
The sixth edition of Donizetti Opera,
Two great titles of the composer from Bergamo will mark the reopening of the theatre after the restorations.
The National Critical Edition with Casa Ricordi continues with a new title
Coinciding with the opening of the Donizetti Opera 2019 festival, the first two titles of the 2020 program are announced, those that will be staged at the Donizetti Theatre: Marino Faliero and La fille du régiment will thus mark the definitive return of the opera to the stage of the City Theatre which will reopen in September 2020.
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