Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Watch "La gazza ladra" on RaiPlay

Teatro alla Scala and RAI are collaborating to release a series of videos from their archives to be available for streaming to audiences worldwide on raiplay.it. For the first of many is a performance of Rossini's La gazza ladra in 2017, which was Rosa Feola's house debut there (and it was also her role debut of Ninetta). Watch the video on RaiPlay, and it will be available on-demand for 30 days.

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Rosa Feola to sing Mozart's Requiem with Berlin Philharmoniker at Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden announced their 2020/21 Season. Rosa Feola will join Berlin Philharmoniker under their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko for an all-Mozart program of their residency during Osterfestspiele, singing the soprano part of Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626. The program will repeat twice on March 29 and April 2, 2021. This will be her festival debut.


Rosa has previously sung the work with Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti in 2015.

For further information and tickets, visit Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

Monday, March 16, 2020

Rosa Feola returning to Bayerische Staatsoper next season in "La traviata" & "Le nozze di Figaro"

Bayerische Staatsoper announced their 2020/21 Season. Rosa Feola will return to the theatre in two productions, as Violetta in Verdi's La traviata and as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.

Left: © Yasuko Kageyama / Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Right: production photo / Bayerische Staatsoper

There are three performances of La traviata, scheduled on April 9, 11, and 15, 2021. Sharing stage with her will be tenor Frédéric Antoun as Alfredo and baritone Simon Keenlyside as Giorgio Germont. Andrea Battistoni conducts.
Violetta is a role new to Rosa's repertoire next season, though she is no stranger to this opera. She told in an interview last year that it was in a small conservatory production of La Traviata in her hometown Caserta that she met her husband, baritone Sergio Vitale. Violetta's famous aria "E strano… A fors'è lui… Sempre libera" was the piece she sang in Operalia final in 2010, for which she won Second prize and Prix du public (she also won Prix de zarzuela in the competition). She also has sung a concert of highlights of La traviata presented by Renata Scotto at Rome's Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in 2014.

The two performances of Le nozze di Figaro on July 16 and 18, 2021 are part of the Münchner Opernfestspiele next summer. Sharing stage with her will be baritone Ludovic Tézieras Conte d'Almaviva, soprano Federica Lombardi as Contessa d'Almaviva, bass baritone Alex Esposito as Figaro, and mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter as Marcellina. Ivor Bolton conducts.
Susanna is a role strongly associated with Rosa that she has sung more than 40 times since early in her career, with which she made her debuts at Teatro La Fenice, in China (at National Centre for the Performing Arts), at Glyndebourne Festival, and at Wiener Staatsoper.

Visit Bayerische Staatsoper for further information and tickets of La traviata and Le nozze di Figaro.

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Cancellation of "L'elisir d'amore" at Wiener Staatsope

Wiener Staatsoper announced today the cancellation of all performances until March 31. As a result, the two performances of L'elisir d'amore scheduled on March 24 and 31 are canceled.

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Cancellation of all remaining performances of "Il turco" at La Scala

As the Italian government ordered suspension of all public gatherings in the country, Teatro alla Scala announced the cancellation of all performances before April 3. Therefore, all the remaining performances of Il turco in Italia are canceled.

Sunday, March 1, 2020

La Scala extending closure and one more "Il turco" canceled

La Scala just announced one more week of closure until March 8th, due to the situation of COVID-19 spreading. As a result, the performance of Il turco in Italian on March 4th is canceled.