Juan Diego Florez in recital at La Scala

  

A great musical event worth being noticed is the recital of one of the greatest tenors of many generations, Juan Diego Florez in one of the best opera houses in the world, La Scala.  

Teresa Berganza in Rossini's The Barber of Seville

One of my favorite Rosinas ever, Teresa Berganza, passed away. 

She was one of the best mezzo sopranos from the golden generation of artists.  

Rosenkavalier at Vienna Staatsoper

 

Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.[2] It is loosely adapted from the novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas by Louvet de Couvrai and Molière's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac.[3] It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 26 January 1911 under the direction of Max Reinhardt,[4] Ernst von Schuch conducting. Until the premiere, the working title was Ochs auf Lerchenau. 

The most recent production of Romeo and Juliet by Gounod in Florence at the Maggio Musicale Festival

 

Gounod began to compose an opera after Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, named Capuleti ei Montecchi, but did not finish it. Later, In 1865, the composer returned to the Shakespearean drama by entrusting the writing of the libretto to Jules Barbier and Michel Carrè, who were already authors of Faust. So two years later, on April 27, 1867, Romeo and Juliette made its debut in Paris, achieving immediate success. 

TURANDOT at the Met

 

Turandot (/ˈtjʊərəndɒt/ TURE-ən-dot,[citation needed] Italian: [turanˈdɔt] (listen);[1][2] see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, posthumously completed by Franco Alfano in 1926, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Turandot's best-known aria is "Nessun dorma", which became globally popular in the 1990s following Luciano Pavarotti's performance of it for the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Puccini's Tosca at Teatro di San Carlo

 

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. 

La Scala's Production of Un Ballo in Maschera by Verdi

 

Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué.

Don Pasquale at the Vienna Staatsoper

Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with text by Giovanni Ruffini, is one of the most famous comedies (opera bufa). 

La Traviata with Diana Damrau and Juan Diego Florez Tonight on TV

 

  

The famous 2018 Metropolitan Opera production of La Traviata with Diana Damrau as Violetta and Juan Diego Florez in the role of Alfredo, will be on Tv tonight on Stingray Classical Tv channel at or around midnight. You should check their website for the tv program for your country, but most of the ones I checked are at or around midnight. 

Concert For Peace

 

On April 4th, 2022, The Peace Concert, organized by the Opera Theater Alla Scala, is going to take place at 8PM. 

The concert was organized to help raise funds for the war victims in Ukraine. 

It will be broadcasted live streaming on the theatres Facebook and YouTube channel.