2022 Donizetti Opera Festival
Festival 2022
Everything is ready for the eighth edition of the Donizetti Opera, the international festival dedicated to the composer from Bergamo, organized by the Donizetti Theatre Foundation chaired by Giorgio Berta with the general direction of Massimo Boffelli, the artistic direction of Francesco Micheli and the musical direction of Riccardo Frizza. The festival will take place in Bergamo, “The City of Gaetano Donizetti”, from 17 November to 4 December 2022.
A new edition of the Donizetti Opera festival – awarded the “Oper! Award” as the best European festival for German critics – which explores the different facets of the “generational gap” through the productions. The programme includes three Donizetti operatic titles and a series of concerts and collateralevents that will be announced in the upcoming months: La favorite (18 and 27 November, 3 December) and L’aio nell’imbarazzo (20 and 26 November, 2 December) will be staged at the Donizetti Theatre; Chiara e Serafina (19 and 25 November, 4 December) will be staged at the Teatro Sociale.
Epidemics and wars do not stop theatre. In fact, they make it even more necessary. Of all the great Italian opera composers, Gaetano Donizetti is still the least known, and his endless production including over seventy titles is a goldmine that wish we could keep digging forever. The Festival dedicated to him therefore continues on its double track: the rediscovery of forgotten works and the revival of well-known ones, but with philological rigour in defining the texts and with special attention to correct performance practice.