Giacomo Puccini's Turandot blows out a hundred candles. It’s time to celebrate its first century of life with the fairytale setting born from the imagination of Franco Zeffirelli: a record-breaking Arena production, with costumes created by the Oscar-winning designer, Emi Wada.

Turandot

Arena di Verona

Considered too realistic at its premiere in 1853, La Traviata remains one of the essential operas in the lyric repertoire. At the end of the first act, Violetta proclaims sempre libera (always free): is this a feminist plea ahead of its time or a tragic illusion? From the ballroom to the confines of the sanatorium, Verdi infuses his masterpiece with ardent music, sometimes breathless, but constantly seeking to free itself from conventions to achieve authentic beauty. Silvia Paoli, one of the great directors of our time, dares a powerful and virtuoso dramaturgical gesture, in total osmosis with the direction of Roderick Cox who brings this iconic score to incandescence, ideally served by the solar soprano of Ruzan Mantashyan and the very remarkable tenor Omer Kobiljak.

La Traviata

Opéra Comédie

Cavalleria Rusticana

Carlo Felice Theater

3rd Concert

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi

Maria and Elisabetta: two queens fight for power and love. Between them stands Count Leicester, Elisabetta's lover, who is attracted to Maria. The two women meet in the park of Fotheringhay Castle - a duel of emotions, fought with the weapons of bel canto, coloratura on a knife's edge. In the end, the Catholic Maria will ascend the scaffold with her head held high, while the Protestant Elisabetta will keep her throne but lose her love.

Gezim Myshketa

Events

Past events

Aug 7 - Sep 11, 2026

Turandot · Fondazione Arena di Verona

1 - 12 Apr, 2026

La Traviata · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Future and recently performed repertoire

Giorgio Germont in La traviata by Verdi

Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Ping in Turandot by Puccini

Fondazione Arena di Verona

Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni

Opera Carlo Felice Genova

Singer in Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven

Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste

Cecil in Maria Stuarda by Donizetti

Staatsoper Hamburg

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