Name: Mozart rarities
Start: 2026-11-28T20:00:00
Location: Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

Christophe Rousset

Marie-Eve Munger

Beth Taylor

Sebastian Kohlhepp

Luca Tittoto

Riccardo Donati

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Prokof’ev - Peter and the Wolf

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

Weill - Songs

Mahler - Symphony No. 2

«I saw Wozzeck on stage, before the war, and made such an incredible impression that I decided to set it to music immediately». So wrote Alban Berg to his friend and colleague Anton Webern in 1918, at a time when his name was only known in the small circle of Schoenberg's pupils. International fame and affirmation would arrive a few years later and precisely thanks to Wozzeck, an opera inspired by Georg Büchner's novel of the same name, which would soon become a symbolic work of the early 20th century as well as an emblem of expressionist theatre. In Büchner's text, Alban Berg had in fact identified themes particularly dear to expressionist poetics such as nightmare, mental alienation and brutal murder. The opera in three acts and fifteen scenes premiered at the Berlin Staatsoper on 14 December 1925 to great acclaim. Berg conceived the opera as a system of closed forms where each scene of each act refers to a formal structure of the Western instrumental tradition such as the suite, the rhapsody, the march, the passacaglia, to name but a few, revised through a livid and anguished orchestral writing. On the vocal side, the almost spoken chant in Wozzeck's Sprechgesang stands out, renouncing all melodic artifice to emphasise the protagonist's sorrowful humanity.

Wozzeck

Haydn - London

Lorenzo Baglioni & Beethoven

Holst - The Planets

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

Lorenzo Baglioni & Verdi

The five elements

An opera seria in a prologue and three acts to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, Simon Boccanegra debuted at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 12 March 1857. However, after many years, Verdi became convinced of the need to rework it, and assisted by Arrigo Boito for the libretto, he prepared a second version that debuted successfully on 24 March 1881 at La Scala in Milan. The action, set in and around Genoa around the middle of the 14th century, recounts the drama of the protagonist, Doge Boccanegra, victim of intrigues and conspiracies. The subject was taken from the drama of the same name by the Spaniard Antonio García Gutiérrez, from whose repertoire Verdi had already drawn inspiration for Trovatore. After its debut, the Gazzetta di Venezia described Boccanegra as an opera “too grand and severe”, characterised by a “lugubrious hue”. Verdi, deliberately and precisely because of the nature of a drama characterised by a thirst for power, a desire for revenge, and respect for the reason of state, chose to focus all his attention on the dark-toned male voices (basses and baritones), entrusting them with the narration of the intestine struggles that torment the republic of Genoa.