Arena di Verona Opera Festival
80 YEARS SINCE THE DEBUT OF LA TRAVIATA AT THE ARENA DI VERONA IN 1946
The Arena presents the longest season in its history, spanning more than three months of performances. From 5 June to 12 September, the Opera Festival returns with 53 evenings of performances spanning opera, concerts and dance.
Night after night, six opera productions and as many special-event evenings will alternate on stage. A new Traviata, two different stagings of Aida, the most recent productions of Nabucco and La Bohème, and then Turandot on the centenary of its world premiere. And the special event Campioni del Mondo. Italy loves Unesco will be broadcast live to the world on Rai 1, bringing together some of opera’s greatest moments, a celebration of Italian cuisine as an intangible cultural world heritage, and the launch of the candidacy of the Neapolitan classical song for inclusion on the Unesco list.
Over three months, the Arena di Verona will have 1,300 people at work across artistic, technical and administrative teams, both inside and outside the theatre, and will host more than 80 conductors and singers: the finest artists on the international scene will alternate on the same stage, returning to the Arena also to make their debuts in new roles: to name only a few, Anna Netrebko, Lisette Oropesa, Rosa Feola, Anna Pirozzi, Maria José Siri, Mariangela Sicilia, Aleksandra Kurzak, Eleonora Buratto, Maria Agresta, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Marta Torbidoni, Clémentine Margaine, Annalisa Stroppa, Yusif Eyvazov, René Barbera, Gregory Kunde, Brian Jagde, Roberto Alagna, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Luca Salsi, Ludovic Tézier, Michele Pertusi, Alexander Vinogradov, Roberto Tagliavini and many others.
The season will also see a number of debuts of well-established artists and of some of the best young emerging talents, including Carolina López Moreno, Adam Smith, Mihai Damian, Martina Russomanno, Mariano Buccino, SeokJong Baek, Alexander Roslavets, Ankhbayar Enkhbold, Francesca Pia Vitale, Antonio Poli, Enkeleda Kamani, Carlo Vistoli and others. Alongside the much-acclaimed conductors Michele Spotti, Daniel Oren, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Andrea Battistoni and Francesco Ommassini, conductors James Conlon, Sebastiano Rolli and Francesco Lanzillotta will make their Arena podium debuts.
