da Enrico Melozzi | 24/09/2026 | Agenda, Melos
The Berlin Philharmonie, designed by Hans Scharoun. Via Wikimedia Commons.The Berliner Philharmoniker’s 2026/27 season, opened at the end of August by Kirill Petrenko with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth, is built around an anniversary that will run through the whole of musical...
da Enrico Melozzi | 22/09/2026 | Agenda, Melos
Florence, home of the Maggio Musicale. Via Wikimedia Commons.The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has presented its 2027 season, which coincides with the eighty-ninth edition of Italy’s oldest festival, and the design is clear from the numbers alone: twelve opera titles,...
da Enrico Melozzi | 19/09/2026 | Agenda, Melos
The auditorium of the Teatro Regio di Torino. Via Wikimedia Commons.Turin’s Regio has given its 2026/27 season a title out of a novel, Fatale, and an inauguration out of a history textbook: on 15 October 2026, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci, the verismo...
da Enrico Melozzi | 17/09/2026 | Agenda, Melos
The Teatro di San Carlo, Naples. Via Wikimedia Commons.The oldest opera house in the world still in operation turns 290, wears its years very well, and celebrates with an avowedly celebratory season. It starts on 2 December 2026 with Luisa Miller: Daniel Oren on the...
da Enrico Melozzi | 15/09/2026 | Agenda, Melos
Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Via Wikimedia Commons.The first season signed by the new superintendent, Nicola Colabianchi, opens with a choice from another era: La Fenice launches on 13 November 2026 with Umberto Giordano’s Fedora, absent from Venice since 1968....
da Enrico Melozzi | 12/09/2026 | Agenda, Melos
The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Photo by Diego Delso, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).While Milan opens with Verdi, Rome opens with Stravinsky: on 27 November 2026 the Teatro dell’Opera inaugurates its season with The Rake’s Progress, Michele...