IL MARTIRIO DI SANTA TEODOSIA

Saint Agostino’s Church

Thursday, September 25, 2025 – 8:30 PM

Alessandro Scarlatti
IL MARTIRIO DI SANTA TEODOSIA
musical oratorio
On the 300th anniversary of the composer’s death

Compagnia de Violini
Violin solo and Conductor: Alessandro Ciccolini

Santa Teodosia: Monica Piccinini
Arsenio: Massimo Altieri
Urbano: Marco Saccardin
Decio, Arsenio’s servant: Valentina Ferrarese

In collaboration with Grandezze & Meraviglie / Associazione Musicale Estense

 

LA BOHÈME

Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre

Friday, September 26, 2025 – 8:00 PM
Other dates:
Sunday, September 28, 2025 – 3:30 PM

Giacomo Puccini
LA BOHÈME
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
From the novel Scénes de la vie de bhoème by Henri Murger

Characters and performers
Mimì: Claudia Pavone
Rodolfo: Galeano Salas
Marcello: Sergio Vitale
Musetta: Mariam Battistelli
Schaunard: Gianluca Failla
Colline: Alberto Comes
Benoît/Alcindoro: Tamon Inoue
Parpignol: Carlo Bellingeri
Customs Sergeants: Luca Marcheselli
A customs officer: Gianluca Ercoli

Plum seller: Luigi Fragnito

Conductor: Aldo Sisillo
Director: Leo Nucci
Associate Director: Tony Contartese
Assistant: Bianca Ferretti
Set Design: Carlo Centolavigna
Costume Design: Artemio Cabassi
Lighting Design: Claudio Schmid

Philharmonic Orchestra and Children’s Choir of the Municipal Theatre of
Modena
Lirico Chorus of Modena
Chorus Master: Giovanni Farina
Children’s Choir Master: Paolo Gattolin
Mimes: Francesco Tomasi, Marcello Finotelli, Michele Zaccaria
Stilt Performer: Laura Bruni

In collaboration with Consorzio Terre del Balsamico
In co-production with Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza

With thanks to Associazione Amici dei Teatri Modenesi

KAMMERMUSIK N.1

Saturday, September 27, 2025 – 5:00 PM

Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Giovanni Bononcini
KAMMERMUSIK N.1
Students of the Modena Belcanto Masterclass
Harpsichord: Mario Sollazzo
In collaboration with Gallerie Estensi

L’ORECCHIO ONNIUDENTE
Teatro delle Passioni
Monday, September 29, 2025 – 8:30 PM

L’ORECCHIO ONNIUDENTE
New composition by Claudio Ambrosini, based on the texts by Ruzante
and Giuliano Scabia, music by Adrian Willaert, Annibale Padovano, Claudio
Monteverdi

Harpsichord and Conductor: Marija Jovanović
Narrator: Michele Sambin
Piano: Matteo Liva
Musical Director: Claudio Ambrosini
Ensemble Vox Secreta
Soprano: Maria Chiara Ardolino
Soprano: Claudia Graziadei
Mezzo-Soprano: Julia Mellor

Contralto: Caterina Bonelli

World premiere, commissioned by Modena Belcanto Festival

GLI UOMINI VISTI DALL’ALTO
Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 – 8:00 PM

Filippo Passarella, Riccardo Bazzoni
GLI UOMINI VISTI DALL ’ALTO
A tribute to Jean-Paul Sartre on the 120th anniversary of his birth
Libretto by Giovanni Peli

Conductor: Mario Sollazzo
Director: Antonella Panini
Ensemble and soloists of the Conservatorio Vecchi-Tonelli of Modena

Characters and Performers
Eva: Margherita Monelli
Lulù: Josephine Palese
Paolo: Paolo Delai

Enrico: Samuele Guerzoni
A patron: Carlo Lipreri

World premiere

PUCCINI’S OPERA, VOCI DI DONNE

Vignola – Fabbri Theatre
Thursday, October 2, 2025 – 8:30 PM

Giacomo Puccini, Fabio Fiandrini e Luca Vianini
PUCCINI’S OPERA, VOCI DI DONNE
Artemis Danza Company
Choreographer, Director, Set Design, Lighting and Costume Design:
Monica Casadei

Produced by Artemis Danza Company

CONCERTO DI GALA
Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Friday, October 3, 2025 – 8:30 PM

Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti
CONCERTO DI GALA
Dedicated to Mirella Freni

Conductor: Daniel Oren
Soprano: Jessica Pratt
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Modena

Gioachino Rossini – Ouverture from The Barber of Seville
Vincenzo Bellini – Ouverture from Norma
Arias from La Sonnambula and I Puritani
Gaetano Donizetti – Ouverture from Don Pasquale
Arias from Emilia di Liverpool, Linda di Chamonix, Lucia di Lammermoor

With the support of the Consorzio Terre del Balsamico
In collaboration with Filarmonica di Modena

KAMMERMUSIK N.2

Saturday, October 4, 2025 – 5:00 PM

Vincenzo Bellini, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi
KAMMERMUSIK N.2

Students of the Modena Belcanto Masterclass
Piano: Linda Piana

In collaboration with Gallerie Estensi

CONCERTO D’AUTUNNO CORALE ROSSINI
Saturday, October 4, 2025 – 7:00 PM

Jacob de Haan, Alfred Reed, William Gomez, Cesar Frank, Gioachino
Rossini, Jules Massenet, Giuseppe Verdi
CONCERTO D’AUTUNNO
CORALE ROSSINI

Gioachino Rossini Choral Association of Modena
Chorus Master and Conductor: Luca Saltini
Beata Vergine Assunta Chorus of Casinalbo
Chorus Master: Simone Guaitoli

Filarmonica Novese di Novi of Modena Society
Conductor: Stefano Bergamini

BITOI / TARTA RELENA

Saturday, October 4, 2025 – 8:30 PM

BITOI / TARTA RELENA
D‘’altro canto… voci inaudite!

Ensemble Bitoi
Electric Bass: Cassius Lambert
Voices: Alexandra Shabo, Lise Kroner and Anja Tierze Lahrmann

Tarta Relena
Voices and Electronics: Helena Ros Redon, Marta Torrella i Martinez

PRIME DONNE: LAURA MORANTE NARRATES PUCCINI’S WOMEN
Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Sunday, October 5, 2025 – 8:30 PM

PRIME DONNE: LAURA MORANTE NARRATES PUCCINI’S WOMEN
Tribute to Giacomo Puccini
Narrator: Laura Morante
Soprano: Francesca De Blasi
Piano: Antonello d’Onofrio
Violin: Lorenzo Fuoco
AidaStudioProduzioni
An Elena Marazzita’s idea

CEREMONY
Pavarotti-Freni Municipal Theatre
Monday, October 6, 2025 – 9:00 PM

CEREMONY
Project by Fondazione Leone Magiera
Musical Conductor: Leone Magiera
Artistic Conductor: Lorenzo Silvestri
Curated by Kenny Alexander Laurence and Eloisa Magiera

Singers: Giulia Alletto, Simone Fenotti, Lorenzo Martelli, Sara Minieri, Ilaria
Monteverdi and Paolo Nevi
Music by Vincenzo Bellini, Francesco Cilea Gaetano Donizetti, Jules
Massenet, Giacomo Puccini, Henry Purcell and Giuseppe Verdi
Piano: Leone Magiera, Alessandro Zilioli
Costume Design: Giulio Scarnecchia

FILARMONIE FUTURE
Vignola – Fabbri Theatre
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 – 8:30 PM

Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini, Leo Delibes,
Georges Bizet, Jacques Offenbach, Camille Saint-Saëns
FILARMONIE FUTURE

A project by the Vecchi-Tonelli Conservatory of Modena and the
Philharmonic Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Modena

Singers from Raina Kabaivanska’s Advanced Training Courses
Conductor: Matteo Parmeggiani
Soprano: Aleksandrina Mihailova
Mezzo-Soprano: Baia Saganelidze

IL BACILLO DELL’AMORE
Truffaut Hall
Thursday, October 9, 2025 – 9:00 PM

IL BACILLO DELL’AMORE
(Ich küsse ihre Hand, Madame di Robert Land)
Original music performed live by Daniele Furlati
Ensemble of the Municipal Theatre of Modena
Conductor: Daniele Furlati
Tenor: Joaquín Cangemi
World premiere, commissioned by Modena Belcanto Festival

In collaboration with Fondazione Cinetica di Bologna

KAMMERMUSIK N.3
Ridotto del Teatro
Friday, October 10, 2025 – 8:30 PM

Gustav Mahler, György Kurtág, Gaia Aloisi
KAMMERMUSIK N.3
Bass: Giacomo Pieracci
Piano: Maria Grazia Bellocchio
In collaboration with Tempo di musica / Festival Modena Contemporanea

DALLA BOEMIA AL DUCATO DI MODENA
Auditorium Ago
Saturday, October 11, 2025 – 5:00 PM

Joseph Venceslao Köhler, Ernesto Köhler
DALLA BOEMIA AL DUCATO DI MODENA

Flute: Hana Budisova
Piano: Michele Varriale
In collaboration with Archivio Storico Diocesano fo Modena-Nonantola

LA VOCE DEL CORO PER MODENA

Sunday, October 12, 2025 – 8:30 PM

Giuseppe Verdi, Orlando di Lasso, Jacobus Handl,
Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti
LA VOCE DEL CORO
PER MODENA
Tribute concert to Luciano Pavarotti on the 90th anniversary of his birth
and on the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Corale Rossini in
Llangollen
Tenor: Vittorio Grigòlo
Soprano: Maria Francesca Rossi
Mezzo-Soprano: Benedetta Mazzetto
Luciano Pavarotti Foundation Orchestra
Conductor: Matteo Parmeggiani
Gioachino Rossini Chorus of Modena

The Fron Male Voice Choir
Curated by Luciano Pavarotti Foundation