The Fondazione Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino along with the Fondazione “Musica per Roma” announce the important commission for a new opera: Romanzo criminale from the best seller by Giancarlo De Cataldo. The opera, with music and direction by Nicola Piovani, libretto by De Cataldo and directed by Massimo Popolizio, is scheduled at the Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino in October 2026, while in Rome at the Auditorium Parco della Musica “Ennio Morricone” it will be staged in 2027.

Romanzo criminale

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

Director Jacopo Spirei returns to the Regio to reinterpret another great classic, after the success of Hamlet, and he does so together with set designer Gary McCann and costume designer Giada Masi, winners of the 2025 Abbiati Prize for their work on Thomas’s opera.

La traviata

Teatro Regio di Torino

His friends recount that when Puccini finished writing La bohème, he gathered them around the piano to let them hear it. Deeply moved, they exclaimed: this opera is about us, it is us! More than a century has passed, and even today we can say the same: this story speaks of the dreams we whisper to ourselves in the mirror, of the desires and regrets that keep us awake at night, of all the great and small losses we have endured, of the winters and summers of a lifetime. Can we love knowing that one day what we love will no longer be there? How can one go on living when death takes away what is most dear to you? And what remains of those we have loved, of all that immense love?

Ilaria Monteverdi

Events

Upcoming events

23 - 31 Oct, 2026

Romanzo criminale · Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Feb 27 - Mar 10, 2027

La traviata · Teatro Regio Torino

Apr 18 - May 2, 2027

La bohème, first love · Teatro Regio Torino

Future and recently performed repertoire

Annina in La traviata by Verdi

Teatro Regio Torino

Musetta in La bohème by Puccini

Teatro Regio Torino

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