In 2019 the festival grows and presents an operatic title more than in previous years: Pietro il Grande for the #donizetti200 project, the first staging of the Ange de Nisida signed by Francesco Micheli, the new critical edition of Lucrezia Borgia. The posters shine with Carmela Remigio, artist in residence 2019, Francesco Demuro, Salome Jicia, Alessandro Corbelli and Roberto De Candia making their Donizetti Opera debut, the return of Xabier Anduaga. On the podium, alongside the musical director Riccardo Frizza, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Corrado Rovaris and Jean-Luc Tingaud will alternate themselves. Bergamo was proclaimed in the Municipality "City of Gaetano Donizetti" Teatro Donizetti and Teatro Sociale, from November 12th to December 1st, 2019    The calendar of the fifth edition of Donizetti Opera is available, an international festival dedicated to the composer from Bergamo and with the artistic direction of Francesco Micheli: the first news of 2019 is the extended programming, thanks also to a third operatic title. In this way the formula that sees the works intertwine in the three weekends around the Dies natalis (November 29th) together with a series of daily appointments (open rehearsals for the under 30s, a show for children, chamber concerts, sacred music, vocal recitals) is further strengthened, forming a program addressed to an ever increasing local and international...