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Donizetti Opera: various appointments in the city’s symbolic places during the second week

On occasion of the 70th birthday of Paolo Fabbri, the Scientific Director of the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, a book dedicated to him, ‘Musica di ieri, esperienza d’oggi’ (Yesteryear’s music, today’s experience), will  be presented in the company of friends and colleagues.

As part of the fourth edition of the Donizetti Opera Festival, a surprise appointment, on Saturday 1st December at 5pm, in the ‘Ashbrook Hall’ of ‘Casa Natale’, or Donizetti’s birthplace,

“Mariella Devia for Gaetano Donizetti”: the homage of the soprano to the composer

Dedicated to the three Tudor queens, the concert programme is directed by Giuseppe Sabbatini.

At the end of the show, the public will be offered candied chestnuts by Italcanditi, a local company that has joined the project ‘Ambasciatori di Donizetti’ (Ambassadors of Donizetti).

Bergamo, Teatro Sociale, Wednesday 28th November, 8.30pm

The Donizetti Opera Festival enters the heart of the programme with high expectations for the now traditional vocal concert at the Teatro Sociale,

Paolo Fabbri Fabrizio Donadoni

“Dante da camera” and the second recital of “Enrico di Borgogna” close the first weekend

At Donizetti’s birthplace, ‘Casa Natale’, at 11am, a staging of the chamber opera with Paolo Fabbri, Maurizio Donadoni and Bruno Taddia

Sunday 25th November, the 200 year-old opera back at the Teatro Sociale

The festival day begins on Sunday 25th November at 11am at Donizetti’s birthplace in Borgo Canale, declared a national monument in 1926, with a staging of ‘Dante da Camera: Inferno in Salotto’ (Chamber Dante: Inferno in the Salon).

Gala inaugurale - Daniela Barcellona - Riccardo Frizza - Jessica Pratt

Donizetti Opera: starting on 22nd November with the Inaugural Gala

The Donizetti Opera Festival raises the curtain with its Inaugural Gala starring the belcanto divas Daniela Barcellona and Jessica Pratt
On the podium, the musical director Riccardo Frizza

The concert with the RAI National Orchestra is dedicated to Donizetti and Rossini
Bergamo, Teatro Sociale, Thursday 22nd November, 8.30pm

Up go the lights for the fourth edition of the International Donizetti Opera Festival 2018, which, prepared by the artistic director Francesco Micheli,