Awards Ceremony of the 44th “Franco Abbiati” Italian Music Critics Prize in Pesaro. At the Teatro Rossini on Sunday, August 10, the parchments of the Abbiati Prize were presented to the winners, together with the official motivations. The “Franco Abbiati” Italian Music Critics Prize is awarded by the National…

The most famous of American musicals. It is West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, conducted by Michele Mariotti and staged by Damiano Michieletto, who has curated the program of the Caracalla Festival 2025. The new production by the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma premieres on Saturday, July 5 at the…

Third and final stage of the “Recomposed Triptych”, a project created in collaboration with the Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago. From April 23 to May 2 at the Teatro Costanzi, Suor Angelica by Giacomo Puccini and Il Prigioniero by Luigi Dallapiccola will be performed under the baton of Michele…

After the success of Il barbiere di Siviglia, which marked his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2021, Michele Mariotti returns to Vienna to conduct Bellini’s Norma in a new production directed by French stage director Cyril Teste. The opera will begin itsrun on Saturday, February 22, 2025, with the premiere already sold out. Musical director of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Mariotti will conduct the Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera in one of the absolute masterpieces of…

Exactly 125 years after its world premiere on January 14, 1900 at the Teatro Costanzi, the most Roman of Giacomo Puccini’s masterpieces returns to the very stage of its debut. Michele Mariotti takes the podium of the Rome Opera to conduct Tosca in the scenic version of the original…

From November 27 to December 5, Simon Boccanegra will be staged at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. Michele Mariotti conducts Verdi’s opera that opens the 2024-25 season of the Roman theater. An intertwining of love, power and reconciliation. A story of solitude, redemption and conflict, which intensely explores the…

Michele Mariotti conducts Ermione at the Rossini Opera Festival leading the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and the Chorus of the Teatro Ventidio Basso. The new production is staged by Johannes Erath. In the cast: Anastasia Bartoli (Ermione), Victoria Yarovaya (Andromaca), Enea Scala (Pirro), Juan Diego Flórez (Oreste), Antonio Mandrillo (Pilade), Michael Mofidian (Fenicio) Martiniana Antonie (Cleone), Paola Leguizamón (Cefisa) and Tianxuefei Sun (Attalo). Live…

Michele Mariotti conducts Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem for the celebration of the 150 years of the masterpiece at the Kölner Philharmonie with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Chor der Oper Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor, and the soloists Susanne Bernhard, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Liparit Avetisyan and Giorgi Manoshvili.

Michele Mariotti conducts Guillaume Tell at the Teatro alla Scala, on stage for the first time in its original French version from March 20 to April 10. The new production is directed by Chiara Muti. The protagonists are Michele Pertusi in the title role, Dmitry Korchak as Arnold Melchtal,…

After the diptych “Il tabarro” / “Il castello del Principe Barbablu”, the three-year project Trittico ricomposto, which pays homage to Puccini and his modernity on the occasion of the centenary of his death, continues with “Gianni Schicchi” and “L’heure espagnole” both conducted by Michele Mariotti. On stage from 7 to…