When Courtesan Violetta and nobleman Alfredo meet, it does not take them long to give in to love. Their whirlwind romance takes them from the bustling social salons of Paris into the quiet French countryside. She leaves a life of luster and riches behind. He angers his father by living in sin with an impure woman. After a visit by Alfredos father, Violetta realizes, that them being together is destroying Alfredo’s life and his family’s reputation. She returns to her former life and is confronted by an angry Alfredo, who thinks she has used him. Some time passes by, and Violetta is on her deathbed. Tuberculosis has struck her down. Poor and alone, she awaits death. When Alfredo learns the reason why Violetta left him and that she is dying, he comes to her. They plan to leave Paris, but there is no time left.

After Alexandre Dumas’ The Lady of the Camellias Verdi composed an opera full of undying melodies, beginning with the famous drinking song “Libiamo ne ‘liete calici” via Violettas heart-wrenching aria “Estrano…Af fors’e lui” to Violetta and Alfredo’s hopeful, yet sad Duetto “Parigi, o cara”. It is no wonder, that La Traviata is one of the most played operas.

La Traviata

Olavinlinna

Enrico di Borgogna

Teatro Malibran

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Roméo et Juliette

Teatro di San Carlo

Opéra comique in two acts by Jean-François-Alfred Bayard and Jules-Henry Vernoy de Saint-Georges Music by Gaetano Donizetti

La fille du régiment

Ballet returns to the Teatro Filarmonico with a fun and original diptych that brings together different 20th-century gems, both written in 1936.

Jeu de Cartes | Amelia al ballo

Teatro Filarmonico

The action unfolds in Imperial Rome, during the reign of Tiberius. The general Publio returns victorious from his campaign against the Sarmatians. Everyone assumes that his triumph will culminate in a marriage to Argelia, the daughter of the powerful senator Murena. Yet Murena is tormented by the thought of Settimio—the tribune of the people he betrayed and sent into exile, and whom Argelia once loved. Because of this, she keeps her distance from him and harbors deep resentment.

L'esule di Roma

Gaetano Donizetti Theater

An opera troupe gathers in the theatre of a small Italian town to rehearse the serious melodrama scheduled for the local fair season. The libretto—by none other than Metastasio—has been clumsily adapted by a local hack poet, then set to music by an even more provincial composer. As for the singers, they may be second-rate, but they carry themselves with all the airs and demands of true stars. And so the stage quickly fills with squabbles between rival prima donnas, grumbling from the disgruntled, and a harried poet and composer struggling to satisfy everyone’s whims—not to mention meddling mothers and intrusive husbands.

Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali

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.

Fiammetta Baldiserri

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 25 - Nov 1, 2026

Jeu de Cartes | Amelia al ballo · Fondazione Arena di Verona

10 - 29 Nov, 2026

L'esule di Roma · Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

12 - 28 Nov, 2026

Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali · Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

Feb 27 - Mar 10, 2027

La traviata · Teatro Regio Torino

Past events

27 - 31 Jul, 2026

La Traviata · Savonlinna Opera Festival

12 - 20 Jun, 2026

Enrico di Borgogna · Teatro La Fenice

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