Rosa Feola to Return to La Scala Next Season as Adina in "L'elisir d'amore"

Teatro alla Scala has just announced their 2018/19 Season. Rosa Feola will perform in Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore.

There will be 10 performances from September 10 to October 10, 2019, with Rosa Feola as Adina, René Barbera and Vittorio Grigolo as Nemorino, Ambrogio Maestri as Dulcamara, and Massimo Cavalletti as Belcore. Michele Gamba conducts. The staging will be a revival of Grischa Asagaroff's production.

This will be the third continuous season that Rosa appears on the roster of La Scala. Previously, she has performed in La gazza ladra (2016/17 Season, Rosa's La Scala debut) and Don Pasquale (2017/18 Season).

Rosa made her role debut of Adina in 2011 at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (also her house debut there) and most recently sung the role at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2014.

For further information and tickets, visit the official website of Teatro alla Scala.

WFMT Radio Network to Rebroadcast "Rigoletto" from Lyric Opera of Chicago

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This Saturday, May 19, WFMT Radio Network will rebroadcast Rigoletto from Lyric Opera of Chicago recorded last year in which Rosa Feola made her US stage opera debut as the heroine Gilda. Her "luminous" performances won rave reactions from both audiences and critics. The program will begin at 12:00 p.m. CDT (17.00 GMT).

International listeners can access the broadcast via online streaming from WFMT.com among many other US radio stations that carry the program.

Rosa Feola to sing "Petite messe solennelle" at Festival Musica Sacra Pavia

Rosa Feola is going to sing the soprano part of Rossini's "Petite messe solennelle", along with mezzo-soprano Veronica Simeoni, tenor Francesco Meli, bass Gianluca Buratto, and Coro del Teatro alla Scala under the direction of chorus master Bruno Casoni. The work will be played in its original version accompanied by two pianos (played by Alberto Malazzi and Marco De Gaspari) and harmonium (played by Jader Costa).

The performance taking place in Basilica di San Michele Maggiore on May 19 will be the first performance of this year's Festival Musica Sacra Pavia. It is open to the public for free with the capacity of 300 people. For more information, visit the official website of Festival Musica Sacra Pavia.

Rosa has previously sung this work (also in its original version) in 2010 in Reate Festival under the baton of Michele Campanella.