2019 Donizetti Opera Festival

Festival 2019

The growing demand for tickets and increasingly numerous audiences means the festival is expanding: Donizetti Opera 2019 adds a third opera and extends by a week; the well-established formula stays the same, with operas concentrated around the composer’s date of birth (29 November).

Meanwhile, Donizetti Night will be Saturday 15 June 2019.

The fifth edition of the Donizetti Opera festival was presented to great enthusiasm on 14 November last year, and features, for the #donizetti200 series, the 1819 opera buffa Pietro il Grande, Czar delle Russie (15 and 23 November, 1 December) based on Maria Chiara Bertieri’s critical edition for the Fondazione Donizetti; the world premiere of the “rediscovered” opera L’ange de Nisida directed by Francesco Micheli (16 and 21 November) in an edition by Candida Mantica; and finally one of the best-loved masterpieces, Lucrezia Borgia (22, 24 and 30 November) with musical direction by Riccardo Frizza and a new critical edition by Roger Parker and Rosie Ward for the national Donizetti edition from Casa Ricordi, in collaboration with the Fondazione and the Municipality of Bergamo.

The Donizetti Opera festival is organised by the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti and the Municipality of Bergamo with funding from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Fondazione Cariplo, the Lombardy Region, Bergamo Chamber of Commerce, Fondazione Istituti Educativi di Bergamo, ASM in collaboration with Fondazione Donizetti, Conservatorio Gaetano Donizetti, Fondazione Mia, Opera Europa, Sacbo, Atb with the contribution of ABenergie – who light Donizetti Night – San Lucio Events and classical music partner Cavalli Musica.

Read the 2019 program!

 

Gala inaugurale

Festival
14 November 2019 - H 20:30
Giuseppe Verdi Symphony from Luisa Miller Gioachino Rossini “Largo al factotum” from Il barbiere di Siviglia (Act I) Daniel Aluber Ouverture from Le philtre Gaetano Donizetti “Ardir” Ha forse il ciel” from L’elisir d’amore (Act I) “Quanto amore…” from L’elisir d’amore (Act II) Symphony and “Sul tuo capo...

Pietro il Grande – Under 30

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12 November 2019 - H 19:00
Pietro il Grande, Kzar delle Russie   Preview for Under 30 audience  An opera buffa in two acts with libretto by Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini Music by Gaetano Donizetti First performance: Teatro San Samuele, Venice, 26 December 1819 Critical edition by Maria Chiara Bertieri / Fondazione Donizetti #donizetti200   Download the programme   Less than a year after his debut as a composer of...

Lucrezia Borgia – Under 30

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20 November 2019 - H 19:00
Preview for Under 30 audience   A melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts, libretto by Felice Romani after Victor Hugo’s play of the same name Music by Gaetano Donizetti First performance: La Scala, Milan, 26 December 1833 At Donizetti Opera festival 2019 it will be performed the version of Paris’ Théâtre Italien in 31st October 1840 A critical edition by Roger Parker and Rosie Ward / Casa Ricordi Milano with the collaboration and contribution of the Municipality of...

Pietro il Grande

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Pietro il Grande Kzar delle Russie   An opera buffa in two acts with libretto by Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini Music by Gaetano Donizetti First performance: Teatro San Samuele, Venice, 26 December 1819 Critical edition by Maria Chiara Bertieri / Fondazione Donizetti #donizetti200   Download the programme   Less than a year after his debut as a composer of...

L’ange de Nisida

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An opera in four acts from a libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaez – music by Gaetano Donizetti Music by Gaetano Donizetti Score by Candida Mantica (realizations by Martin Fitzpatrick)© OperaRara / Peters, Lipsia; Italian representative Casa Musicale Sonzogno di Piero Ostali, Milan Unpublished cabaletta by Candida Mantica (realization by Federico Biscione) © Fondazione Teatro Donizetti   Download the programme   #1stperformance An opera in four acts from a libretto...

Lucrezia Borgia

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A melodramatic opera in a prologue and two acts, libretto by Felice Romani after Victor Hugo’s play of the same name Music by Gaetano Donizetti First performance: La Scala, Milan, 26 December 1833 First performance: La Scala, Milan, 26 December 1833 At Donizetti Opera festival 2019 it will be performed the version of Paris’ Théâtre Italien in 31st October 1840 A critical edition by Roger Parker and Rosie Ward / Casa Ricordi Milano with the collaboration and contribution of the...

Messa di Gloria

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Messa di Gloria per Soli, Coro e Orchestra Music by Gaetano Donizetti First execution: Napoli, Chiesa di Santa Maria Nova, 1837 Edition by Pietro Spada © Boccaccini and Spada Editori, distribution by Casa Ricordi,...

L’ange de Nisida – Preview

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An opera in four acts from a libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaez – music by Gaetano Donizetti Music by Gaetano Donizetti Score by Candida Mantica (realizations by Martin Fitzpatrick)© OperaRara / Peters, Lipsia; Italian representative Casa Musicale Sonzogno di Piero Ostali, Milan Unpublished cabaletta by Candida Mantica (realization by Federico Biscione) © Fondazione Teatro Donizetti #1stperformance   Download the programme   It was known that La Favorita (1840)...