Giuseppe Verdi – NABUCCO

Giuseppe Verdi

Friday, October 24, 2025 – 8:00 PM
Other dates:
Saturday, October 25, 2025 – 6:00 PM
Sunday, October 26, 2025 – 3:30 PM

NABUCCO
Opera in four acts
Libretto: Temistocle Solera

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Main Roles:

• Nabucco: Fabian Veloz (Oct 24, 26); Alexey Zelenkov (Oct 25)

• Ismaele: Matteo Desole

• Zaccaria: Riccardo Zanellato (Oct 24, 26); Ramaz Chikviladze (Oct 25)

• Abigaille: Marta Torbidoni (Oct 24, 26); Svetlana Kasian (Oct 25)

• Grand Priest of Belo: Lorenzo Mazzucchelli

• Fenena: Chiara Mogini

• Anna: Laura Fortino

• Abdallo: Saverio Pugliese

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Production Team:

• Conductor: Massimo Zanetti

• Director: Federico Grazzini

• Set & Costume Design: Anna Bonomelli

• Lighting Design: Giuseppe Di Iorio

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Performing Ensemble:

• Italian Philharmonic Orchestra

• Lirico Chorus of Modena

• Chorus Master: Giovanni Farina

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Co-Production:
Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia

New Production
In co-production with OperaLombardia and Teatro del Giglio, Lucca

Giacomo Puccini – TOSCA

Giacomo Puccini

Thursday, November 27, 2025 – 8:00 PM
Other dates:
Saturday, November 29, 2025 – 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 30, 2025 – 3:30 PM

TOSCA
Opera in three acts
Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

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Main Roles:

• Floria Tosca: Maria Teresa Leva (Nov 27, 30); Diana Lamar (Nov 29)

• Mario Cavaradossi: Giorgio Berrugi (Nov 27, 30); Paolo Lardizzone (Nov 29)

• Baron Scarpia: Dalibor Jenis

• Cesare Angelotti: Gaetano Triscari

• The Sacristan: Roberto Abbondanza

• Spoletta: Aldo Sartori

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Production Team:

• Conductor: Stefano Ranzani

• Director: Luca Orsini

• Set Design: Giacomo Andrico

• Costume Design: Rosanna Monti

• Lighting Design: Tiziano Panichelli

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Performing Ensemble:

• Emilia-Romagna Regional Orchestra

• Lirico Chorus of Modena

• Chorus Master: Giovanni Farina

• Children’s Voices of Teatro Comunale di Modena

• Children’s Voices Master: Paolo Gattolin

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Co-Production:
Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena, Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara

New Production
In memory of Cristina Pezzoli
In co-production with Teatro del Giglio, Lucca; Teatro Goldoni, Livorno; Teatro Verdi, Pisa; Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna

Benjamin Britten – The Little Chimney Sweep
Saturday 14 December 2024 – 17:00

Benjamin Britten
THE LITTLE CHIMNEY SWEEP
A children’s opera in three scenes
Libretto by Eric Crozier

Performers of the Advanced Training Courses for Opera Singers of the Teatro Comunale di Modena
Nerone/Tommaso: Lorenzo Mazzucchelli
Clementino/Alfredo: Vincenzo Tremante
Ms. Bracco: Jihye Kim
Giulietta: Isabella Gilli
Rosa: Maria Bagalà
Soloists of the Children’s Voices of the Pavarotti-Freni Opera House

Conductor: Paolo Gattolin
Direction and scenes: Stefano Monti
Assistant direction STED
Lights: Andrea Ricci
Chamber Ensemble of the Pavarotti-Freni Opera House
Children’s Voices of the Pavarotti-Freni Opera House

Master of Children’s Voices: Paolo Gattolin
Set-up: Pavarotti-Freni Opera House

Giacomo Puccini – Gianni Schicchi
Saturday 21 December 2024 – 20:00
Sunday 22 December 2024 – 15:30

Giacomo Puccini
GIANNI SCHICCHI
Opera in one act
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano

Version for chamber orchestra by Ettore Panizza
Performers of the Advanced Course for Opera Singers of the Pavarotti-Freni Opera House

Conductor: Luciano Acocella
Direction: Stefano Monti
Scenes: Rinaldo Rinaldi
Lights: Andrea Ricci
Italian Philharmonic Orchestra
Set-up: Pavarotti-Freni Opera House

Georg Friedrich Händel – Julius Caesar
Friday 24 January 2025 – 20:00
Sunday 26 January 2025 – 15:30

Georg Friedrich Händel
JULIUS CAESAR
Musical drama in three acts
Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym

from Julius Caesar in Egypt by Giacomo Francesco Bussani

Julius Caesar: Raffaele Pé
Cleopatra: Marie Lys
Achilla: Davide Giangregorio
Cornelia: Delphine Galou
Tolomeo Filippo Mineccia
Sesto: Federico Fiorio
Nireno: Enrico Torre
Curio: Clemente Antonio Daliotti

Accademia Bizantina

Harpsichord conductor: Ottavio Dantone
Direction: Chiara Muti
Scenes: Alessandro Camera
Costumes: Tommaso Lagattolla
Lights: Vincent Longuemare

Coproduction: Ravenna Manifestazioni, Pavarotti-Freni Opera House Foundation of Modena, Piacenza Theatre Foundation, Reggio Emilia Theatres Foundation, Teatro del Giglio Opera House of Lucca, Haydn Foundation of Bolzano and Trento

NEW INSTALLATION

Giuseppe Verdi – I due Foscari
Friday 21 February 2025 – 20:00
Sunday 23 February 2025 – 15:30

Giuseppe Verdi
I DUE FOSCARI
Tragedia lirica in three acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
inspired by the homonymous theatrical work in verse by Lord Byron
Publisher Casa Ricordi, Milan

Francesco Foscari: Luca Salsi
Jacopo Foscari: Luciano Ganci
Lucrezia Contarini: Marigona Qerkezi
Jacopo Loredano: Antonio Di Matteo
Barbarigo: Marcello Nardis
Pisana: Ilaria Alida Quilico
Fante: Manuel Pierattelli
Servant of the Doge: Eugenio Maria Degiacomi

Conductor: Matteo Beltrami
Direction: Joseph Franconi Lee
Sets and costumes: William Orlandi
Lights: Valerio Alfieri
Choreography: Raffaella Renzi
Collaborating director: Daniela Zedda
Assistant set designer and costume designer: Francesco Bonati

Emilia-Romagna Orchestra Arturo Toscanini
Chorus of the Piacenza Theatre
Chorus Master Corrado Casati

Co-production:  Piacenza Theatre Foundation, Pavarotti-Freni Opera House Foundation of Modena
First production by ABAO of Bilbao and the Verdi Theatre of Trieste, property of the Piacenza Theatre Foundation and the Pavarotti-Freni Opera House Foundation of Modena

Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo – Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
Thursday 20 March 2025 – 20:00
Saturday 22 March 2025 – 18:00
Sunday 23 March 2025 – 15:30

Pietro Mascagni / Ruggero Leoncavallo
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA / PAGLIACCI
Melodrama in one act / Drama in a prologue and two acts
Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci / Ruggero Leoncavallo

Cavalleria Rusticana

Santuzza: Teresa Romano (20 and 23 March) / Nana Dzidziguri (22 March)
Alfio: Fabián Veloz (20 and 23 March) / Ernesto Petti (22 March)
Turiddu: Angelo Villari (20 and 23 March) / Amadi Lagha (22 March)
Lucia: Eleonora Filipponi
Lola: Francesca Cucuzza

Pagliacci

Nedda in the comedy Colombina: Daniela Schillaci (March 20 and 23) / Marina Shakhdinarova (March 22)
Canio, in the comedy Pagliaccio: Angelo Villari
Tonio, in the comedy Taddeo: Fabián Veloz (March 20 and 23) / Ernesto Petti (March 22)
Beppe, in the comedy Arlecchino: Giuseppe Infantino
Silvio, farmer: Hae Kang

Director: Aldo Sisillo
Director: Plamen Kartaloff
Sets: Giacomo Andrico
Costumes: Nella Emil Dimitrova-Stoyanova
Emilia-Romagna Arturo Toscanini Orchestra
Opera chorus of Modena
Chorus Master: Corrado Casati

Co-production: Pavarotti-Freni Opera House Foundation of Modena, Piacenza Theatre Foundation, Galli Theatre of Rimini

NEW INSTALLATION, in co-production with Sofia Opera House

Hengitä Breath / Jezioro Popiołów Ash Lake / Pearl of Hope
Friday, April 11, 2025 – 20:00
Sunday, April 13, 2025 – 15:30

B.U.T.T.E.R.F.L.Y. Project – Creative Europe
BOOSTING ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS IN OPERA CREATION

• HENGITÄ · RESPIRO (Finland)
• JEZIORO POPIOŁÓW · LAGO DI CENERE (Poland)
• PEARL OF HOPE (Italy)

Three one-act plays on a subject by high school students from

• “Otaniemen Lukio” from Helsinki
• “Number 6” from Gdansk
• “Francesco Selmi” from Modena

Composers
Paavo Korpijaakko – Finland
Beniamin Baczewski – Poland
Marco Attura – Italy

Librettists
Mirva Koivukangas – Finland
Jagoda Jagson – Poland
Vincenzo De Vivo – Italy

Conductor Jaan Ots
Direction Matteo Mazzoni
Set and costume design: Joanna Borkowska
Digital scenography: Heimspiel
Ensemble Progetto Butterfly

NEW INSTALLATION

Paul McCartney – Ecce cor meum | Beatles greatest hits
Tuesday 29 April 2025 – 20:00

ECCE COR MEUM
Music by Paul McCartney

BEATLES GREATEST HITS
Songs performed:

Eleanor Rigby

The Long and Winding Road

Penny Lane

Something

Yesterday

Let It Be

Hey Jude

Musical arrangements Antonio Aiello

Conductor: Lorenzo Bizzarri

Ferrara City Orchestra
Modena Opera chorus
Chorus master Lorenzo Bizzarri
Children’s chorus of the Pavarotti-Freni Opera House
Children’s chorus master: Paolo Gattolin

Co-production: Ferrara Theatre Foundation, Pavarotti-Freni Opera House Foundation of Modena