Only recognition for Italy assigned by a jury of authoritative German music critics In the Sala Werner Otto of Konzerthaus in Berlin, in the heart of the German capital, on Saturday, September 21, a name resonated more than the others, that of Gaetano Donizetti, continuously quoted during the entire ceremony, which has indicated the Donizetti Opera of Bergamo as “Best Festival 2019”. The motivation behind the award, made by the jury composed of authoritative German music critics, is: “It is a festival already of great tradition in the composer's thriving hometown which has achieved - both from a musicological and programmatic point of view and from a quality point of view - results comparable to those of the Rossini festival in Pesaro. It is due to the hard work of the artistic director Francesco Micheli, to whom the appointment of Riccardo Frizza as new musical director is the premise of further progress. We are therefore anxious to see the first world staging of Donizetti's last work to be discovered in November, L’ange de Nisida” Francesco Micheli and Riccardo Frizza took the trophy in Berlin and they collected the compliments of the many colleagues and exponents of the international musical life present in the room, such as Serge Dorny (new superintended designated at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich) or Andrea Homoki (film director and director at...