OperaStreaming announces 2023 streams
OperaStreaming announces 2023 streams from the historic Opera Houses of Emilia-Romagna starting with Vivaldi’s Il Tamerlano on Sunday 15 January.
Streaming live from Bologna, Ferrara, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia & Rimini:
Il Tamerlano – 15 January at 3.30pm (CET) from Ravenna
Adriana Lecouvreur – 24 March from Parma
La Bohème – 31 March from Rimini
Le Nozze di Figaro – 30 June from Ferrara
Fedora – 8 October from Piacenza
Don Carlo – 5 November from Modena
OperaStreaming kicks off 2023 with Vivaldi’s Il Tamerlano from Ravenna with the Accademia Bizantina conducted by Ottavio Dantone on Sunday 15 January at 3.30pm CET. This will be followed in March by Adriana Lecouvreur from Parma with Maria Teresa Leva in the title role alongside Riccardo Massi as Maurizio and Sonia Ganassi as the Princess and by La Bohème from Rimini with recent Operalia winner Juliana Grigoryan as Mimi directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti.
OperaStreaming brings together eight magnificent opera houses for the joint venture to promote the region’s unique operatic heritage, home to legendary singers Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci and Mirella Freni, and the great opera composer Giuseppe Verdi, born in Busseto near Parma in the Emilia-Romagna region.
The Region of Emilia-Romagna is committed to the preservation of its operatic heritage. OperaStreaming is a project championed by the Emilia-Romagna Region that encourages and supports co-productions between its opera houses, as with Il Tamerlano which though originating in Ravenna transfers to Piacenza, Reggio Emilia and Modena’s theatres.
With 1.1 million viewers and nearly 20,000 subscribers many from the US, OperaStreaming originated and is coordinated by the Teatro Comunale di Modena and Edunova, the video production centre of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
OperaStreaming enables opera lovers across the world to view outstanding performances for free from the homeland of bel canto singing. Performances are streamed live and made available for six months or more with full subtitles in Italian and English. During intervals, the camera goes behind-the-scenes of the production for exclusive interviews with the cast and team.
The current season of streams restarted in October with Simon Boccanegra from Parma followed by Madama Butterfly from the home of bel canto, Modena. On 3 December, it streamed Giovanni Sollima’s Jungle Book from Parma in a YouTube premiere. These were followed by Rigoletto and Plácido Domingo Verdi Gala from Piacenza and Die Fledermaus from Ferrara over the festive season and still available to view.
Upcoming Livestreams
Teatro Alighieri di Ravenna
Sunday 15 January, 3.30pm CET
Il Tamerlano – Vivaldi
Tamberlane Filippo Mineccia
Bajazet Gianluca Margheri*15th January
Asteria Delphine Galou
Andronico Federico Fiorio
Irene Marie Lys
Idaspe Giuseppina Bridelli
harpsichord conductor Ottavio Dantone
direction, sets and costumes Stefano Monti
choreography Marisa Ragazzo, Omid Ighani
lighting design Eva Bruno
video/3D content Cristina Ducci
painting on canvas Rinaldo Rinaldi, Maria Grazia Cervetti
illustrations Lamberto Azzariti
sculptures Vincenzo Balena
scene creation Scenography Workshop Pesaro
costume creation Sartoria Klemann
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Teatro Regio di Parma
24 March, 8pm CET
Adriana Lecouvreur – Cilea
Maurizio Riccardo Massi
King of Bouillon Adriano Gramigni
Abbe de Chazeuil Saverio Pugliese
Michonnet Claudio Sgura
Poisson Stefano Consolini
Quinault Steponas Zonys
Adriana Levouvreur Maria Teresa Leva
Princess of Bouillon Sonia Ganassi
Mademoiselle Jouvenot Vittoriana de Amicis
Mademoiselle Dangeville Carlotta Vichi
Conductor Francesco Ivan Ciampa
Director Italo Nunziata
Set design Emanuele Sinisi
Costume design Artemio Cabassi
Lighting design Fiammetta Baldiserri
https://www.teatroregioparma.it/spettacolo/adriana-lecouvreur/
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Teatro Galli di Rimini
31 March, 3.30pm CET
La bohème - Puccini
Mimì Juliana Grigoryan
Musetta Alessia Pintossi
Rodolfo Alessandro Scotto di Luzio
Marcello Christian Federici
Schaunard Clemente Antonio Daliotti
Colline Andrea Vittorio De Campo
Benoît TBC
Alcindoro, Sergente dei doganieri Graziano Della Valle
Parpignol Ivan Merlo
conductor Nicola Paszkowski
director Cristina Mazzavillani Muti
light designer Vincent Longuemare
visual designer David Loom
video programmer Davide Broccoli
costumi Alessandro Lai
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
Coro Luigi Cherubini
maestro del coro Antonio Greco
Coro di Voci Bianche Ludus Vocalis
diretto da Elisabetta Agostini
https://www.teatroalighieri.org/events/la-boheme-4/
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Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
30 June at 9pm CET
The Marriage of Figaro – Mozart
Guido Dazzini
Gianluca Failla
Marta Lazzaro
Gesua Gallifoco
Silvia Caliò
Alexandra Kirsanova
Alessandro Agostinacchio
Lorenzo Martelli
Giovanni L. Convertino
City of Ferrara Orchestra
Choir of the Municipal Theater of Ferrara
Director Massimo Raccanelli
choir director Maria Theresa Auletta
direction Adrian Schvarzstein
assistant director Jūratė Širvytė-Rukštelė
scenes & costumes Lilli Hartmann
lights Marco Cazzola
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Teatro Municipale di Piacenza
8 October, 3.30pm CET
Fedora – Giordano
Princess Fedora Romazov Teresa Romano
Countess Olga Sukarev Yuliya Tkachenko
Count Loris Ipanov Luciano Ganci
De Siriex Simone Piazzola
Conductor Aldo Sisillo
Director Pier Luigi Pizzi
Lighting Massimo Gasparon
https://teatripiacenza.it/event/fedora/
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Teatro Comunale di Modena
5 November 3.30pm CET
Don Carlo - Verdi
Filippo II Michele Pertusi
Elisabetta Anna Pirozzi
Don Carlo Piero Pretti,
La Principessa Eboli Teresa Romano
Conductor Jordi Bernacer
Director Joseph Franconi Lee
Set and costumes Alessandro Ciammarughi
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Already Available:
Sun 18 December 2022, 15:30 CET*
Municipal Theater of Piacenza
Rigoletto – Verdi NEW PRODUCTION
The Duke of Mantua Marco Ciaponi
Rigoletto Amartuvshin Enkhbat
Gilda Federica Guida
Sparafucile Mattia Denti
Maddalena Rossana Rinaldi
Giovanna Elena Borin
The Count of Monterone Christian Barone
Marullo Stefano Marchisio
Matteo Borsa Andrea Galli
The Count of Ceprano Juliusz Loranzi
The Countess of Ceprano Emanuela Sgarlata
A page Agnes Sipos
An usher Lorenzo Sivelli
Conductor Francesco Ivan Ciampa
Director Leo Nucci
Scenes Carlo Centolavigna
Costumes Artemio Cabassi
Lights Michele Cremona
Italian Philharmonic Orchestra
Choir of the Municipal Theater of Piacenza, choir master Corrado Casati
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Friday 30 December, 20:00 CET *
Die Fledermaus – Richard Strauss NEW PRODUCTION (performed in Italian)
Eisenstein Alessandro Fantoni
Rosalinde Scilla Cristiano
Dottor Falke, Francesco Bossi
Principe Orlofski Camilla Antonini
Alfred Jesús Piňeiro
Adele Tania Bussi
Frank Maurizio Leoni
Dottor Blind Marcandrea Mingioni
Frosch Alessio Cioni
Ida Isabella Gilli
Orchestra Città di Ferrara
Balletto di Parma
Conductor Marco Fiorini
Coreografie Francesco Frola
Director Corrado Abbati
Una produzione Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
OperaStreaming
The melodrama tradition in the Emilia-Romagna region, with its stars and the popular passion that has been handed down over the centuries, constitutes a heritage of global interest. Emilia-Romagna is the region of Giuseppe Verdi and of performers who have changed the history of this musical genre such as Carlo Bergonzi, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci and Mirella Freni. It the enjoys today one of the most prolific musical life in the operatic world thanks to the highest concentration of historical theaters of the nation. Every year, the theaters of Emilia-Romagna produce lyrical performances of the highest standard, thanks not only to the quality of the artists but also to the preservation of a unique mastery and craftmanship in the construction of the operatic productions.
OperaStreaming offers a seasonal program of video broadcasts, freely available on YouTube, from the Opera Theatres of Emilia-Romagna (Bologna, Piacenza, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Ferrara Ravenna and Rimini) in collaboration with EDUNOVA-University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The project, that will run from 2019 through 2021, let enjoy Emilia-Romagna’s lyric tradition and opera productions from the rest of the world. OperaStreaming was born thanks to TeatroNet, a pioneering streaming program launched by the Culture Department of the Emilia-Romagna Region in 2012 who provided the technology that enabled all theatres to transmit their shows live.
OperaStreaming is a continuation of TeatroNet, the initiative launched by the Department of Culture of the Emilia-Romagna region in 2012 and aimed at streaming musical performances from the theaters and institutions of the territory, and also thanks to the equipment of the fiber optic network put in place by Lepida S.p.A.
Following the experience of TeatroNet, numerous theatres continued and developed in the following years the digital broadcasting channel following, thanks to a state-of-the-art technological endowment, a trend that is emerging as a fundamental component of the international opera scene.
Among these, the Teatro Comunale di Modena has found in the communication by video an indispensable opportunity for the development of the live show and has activated, starting in 2013, a collaboration with the EDUNOVA E-Learning Center, a leading reality in the video production industry. The shows, filmed live in HD, were broadcast regularly and seen in free-to-air on the YouTube platform by tens of thousands of viewers from all over the world.
