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OCTOBER 26, 2020 UPDATE – News about Donizetti Opera Festival after the Italian Prime Ministerial Decree of October 24, 2020

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. 

DONIZETTI OPERA 2024: TENTH EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO THE COMPOSER FROM BERGAMO

Celebratory programme with two masterpieces: Roberto Devereux and Don Pasquale
Zoraida di Granata is the rare word staged for #donizetti200
LU OpeRave returns in a new venue

The programme includes renowned stars such as Javier Camarena, Roberto de Candia, John Osborn and Jessica Pratt, alongside other established younger performers and students of Bottega Donizetti

On the podium,

Donizetti Opera: the details of the 2023 edition

DONIZETTI OPERA FESTIVAL 2023: SPECIAL EDITION FOR BERGAMO BRESCIA ITALIAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE
opening with LU OpeRave, a new electronic music opera then Il diluvio universale, Alfredo il Grande, Lucie de Lammermoor by Donizetti and Il piccolo compositore di musica by Mayr 

The programme includes renowned stars such as Giuliana Gianfaldoni,

2023 Donizetti Opera report and 2023 titles

DONIZETTI OPERA FESTIVAL 2022: ATTENDED BY OVER 12,000 PEOPLE AND 97 ACCREDITED JOURNALISTS

IN 2023 “IL DILUVIO UNIVERSALE”, “ALFREDO IL GRANDE”, “LUCIE DE LAMMERMOOR”, “IL PICCOLO COMPOSITORE DI MUSICA” AND “LU OpeRave”

31% of online tickets purchased abroad. The percentage rises to 80% among organised groups
The support of sponsors and Donizetti Ambassadors was crucial

The eighth edition of the Donizetti Opera Festival organized by the Donizetti Theatre Foundation chaired by Giorgio Berta,

The autographed score of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor arrives to New York from Bergamo for the new production at the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Riccardo Frizza

The precious manuscript will be on display from 21 April at the Italian Cultural Institute on Park Avenue Lucia di Lammermoor is undoubtedly, together with L’elisir d’amore, the most famous opera by Gaetano Donizetti and the most performed throughout the world. Thanks to a 1985 donation by the Perolari family, the city of Bergamo was [...]

The 2022 Donizetti Opera Festival

THE 2022 FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE YOUNG AND ADULTS: OPENING NIGHT WITH A NEW CREATION LU OpeRave AND THREE DONIZETTIAN OPERAS LA FAVORITE, L’AIO NELL’IMBARAZZO, CHIARA AND SERAFINA ON ITS MODERN PREMIEREFOR #DONIZETTI200 The programme includes renowned international stars such as Annalisa Stroppa, the eagerly awaited return of Javier Camarena and Alex [...]

Plácido Domingo is forced to postpone his participation in the Donizetti Opera festival for health reasons. The protagonist of the opera “Belisario” will be Roberto Frontali

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.

Donizetti Opera 2020: the festival will not stop and moves online and on Rai5

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,

The Donizetti Opera festival opens a new web tv with the “Donizetti Revolution vol. 6”

Find out details about subscription Get access to the "Donizetti Revolution" and to the other free contents Subscribe now and support the Festival Waiting for further developments in government regulations on the opening of shows to the public, currently suspended until 24 November, the Donizetti Opera festival will not stop and will restart, anticipating the [...]