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Greek National Opera Unveils 2025/26 Programme: Emotional Intelligence Returns

admin_mowp — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:50:34 +0000

The Greek National Opera (GNO) announces a bold and visionary 25/26 season, under the theme: “The opera of the future arises from the womb of the past.”

Curated by Artistic Director Giorgos Koumendakis, the season features seven new productions, five revivals, a concert presentation, and two international tours. This programme is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to enhance the Greek National Opera’s artistic outreach.

After 65 years, the GNO returns to the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus with the historic production of Medea, originally created for Maria Callas in 1961, while also reviving beloved classics such as Tosca and La Traviata at the Stavros Niarchos Hall.

Highlights include the grand opening with La Gioconda, a co-production with the Royal Opera House and Salzburg Easter Festival, and the long-awaited Requiem for the End of Love by Koumendakis, Papaioannou, and Currentzis.

Anna Pirozzi, Aleksandra Kurzak, Gaëlle Arquez, Marina Viotti, Alisa Kolosova, Anita Rachvelishvili, Roberto Alagna, Charles Castronovo, Arsen Soghomonyan, Andrea Carè, and Marcelo Puente are just a few of the international opera stars who will perform at the Greek National Opera during the new season. The season also includes the hosting of the International Opera Awards in Athens on 13 November.

For more information and the full programme, visit nationalopera.gr/en.

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Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak in Full Drama Mode

admin_mowp — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:00:26 +0000

As he celebrates 40 years of an illustrious career with the release of a complete collection of his opera recordings for Warner Classics, Roberto Alagna shows no signs of stepping away from the stage. From December 12 to 22, 2024, audiences in Geneva will have the chance to see him perform at the Grand Théâtre in Fedora by Umberto Giordano, a work that offers a major dramatic role to his partner, Aleksandra Kurzak. Giordano’s opera, a richly crafted drama, has not achieved the same level of success as his masterpiece Andrea Chénier, likely due to its era, which favored tenors over sopranos—here, the female role takes center stage. Husband and wife offstage, Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto Alagna continue to coordinate their schedules, appearing together in Vienna for Puccini’s Tosca in May 2025. They will also take the stage in Verona for brief performances as the leads in Carmen (July 7) andAida (July 27).

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Roberto Alagna © Gregor Hohenberg

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Starry Nights at the Verona Arena Festival 2025

admin_mowp — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:00:48 +0000

“Habemus distributionem!”

For once, unusually so early in the season, the Verona Arena Festival has unveiled the casts of the five operas scheduled this summer (Aida, Carmen, Nabucco, Rigoletto, and La Traviata). From June 13 to September 6, 2025, on one of the world’s largest opera stages, a parade of superstars is expected.

In addition to Jonas Kaufmann, announced for a recital, Anna Netrebko returns in Aida and also in Nabucco, where Anna Pirozzi, another great Abigaille, will also perform. Marina Rebeka, a star soprano, will make her Verona debut in Aida, alongside Angel Blue (Traviata) and Pene Pati (Rigoletto).

Familiar faces are returning, including Nadine Sierra, Piotr Beczała, Gregory Kunde, Amartuvshin Enkhbat (in Rigoletto, Nabucco, Aida, and Traviata), Ludovic Tézier (as Giorgio Germont and Amonasro), Luca Salsi, Erwin Schrott, as well as Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto Alagna. The renowned couple will feature in Aida and Carmen, where audiences will also delight in seeing Anita Rachvelishvili and rising star Aigul Akhmetshina. Bookings are already open, and with such treasures on display, some performances will undoubtedly be more sought-after than others…

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Verona Arena (c) Gianfranco Fainello

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Roberto Alagna Creates a Buzz Once Again!

admin_mowp — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:00:16 +0000

After celebrating his 61st birthday on June 7, 2024 and preparing to celebrate his 40-year career with the release of a special box set featuring 33 CDs—the complete collection of his opera recordings for Warner Classics (originally published by EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, Warner Classics, and Erato)—Roberto Alagna, the unique, radiant superstar, will perform in concert alongside another major star of the opera world at the Philharmonie de Paris on Monday, September 23, 2024. On this occasion, Giorgio Croci, at the helm of the Belgian National Orchestra, will conduct arias and duets by Bizet, Donizetti, Moniuszko, Verdi, and Wagner with Ludovic Tézier, who, after Jonas Kaufmann, seems to be collecting the greatest tenors in the world!

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Roberto Alagna © Gregor Hohenberg

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The Arena of today and tomorrow

admin_mowp — Mon, 06 May 2024 08:00:50 +0000

While Cecilia Gasdia, Sovrintendente of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, is touring the major cities to present the 2024 programme of the famous Verona Arena Festival, the 2025 season has already been announced. 2024, the great Puccini year, will of course include the masterpieces Tosca, Turandot and a new Bohème, as well as the eagerly awaited Carmen, Barbiere di Siviglia and two Aida. The modern staging created for the festival’s 100th anniversary will be revived, as will the historic 1913 production with its monumental set. 2024 also marks the return of the great stars Anna Netrebko, Elena Stikhina, Clémentine Margaine, Jonas Kaufman, Roberto Alagna, Vittorio Grigolo, Ludovic Tézier, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, etc. as well as the debuts of Pretty Yende and mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina. 2025 will be a year dominated by Verdi, who will be back in force with Aida, La Traviata, Rigoletto and a new production of the legendary Nabucco. In the programme, only Carmen was not composed by the great composer!

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Alagna and Kurzak on New Year’s Eve

admin_mowp — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 09:00:02 +0000

Verona is the city of lovers that welcomes couples in every season. Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak even have a nice surprise in store for the people of Verona as they will perfom as Mimi & Rodolfo to the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona on 31 December 2022 for an exclusive performance of Puccini’s La Bohème. The staging is by Stefano Trespidi and tickets have recently gone on sale!

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Roberto Alagna (c) Kasia Paskuda

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Three knights take the Bastille

admin_mowp — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:53:32 +0000

While Manon is expected at the Opéra Bastille from 5 to 26 February 2022, performed by Ailyn Pérez in Jules Massenet’s masterpiece, her Chevalier des Grieux will not be Joshua Guerrero as announced. The tenor having withdrawn from the production for health reasons, he leaves his place to three other colleagues, Roberto Alagna (on 5, 11 and 17), Atalla Ayan (8, 14 and 20) and Benjamin Bernheim (23 and 26 February 2022).

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From Verona, finally in Paris!

admin_mowp — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:30:55 +0000

The most Italian of French operas, Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, has not been performed at the Opéra national de Paris since 1985 (sic). From 13 to 21 December 2021, the Opéra Comique will once again perform the great masterpiece with an ideal cast (Julie Fuchs, Jean-François Borras, Adèle Charvet, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Jérôme Boutillier with Laurent Campellone conducting and the elegant Éric Ruf for the staging and set design), as it did almost 30 years ago. In 1994, a very young tenor made his Parisian debut, a certain Roberto Alagna ! To be booked as a matter of urgency…

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Photograph: DR / Opéra Comique

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Roberto Alagna and is wife Aleksandra Kurzak at Wiener Staatsoper

admin_mowp — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:04:45 +0000

Something’s wrong at Wiener Staatsoper between Roberto Alagna and is wife Aleksandra Kurzak, as Otello in Verdi’s opera he is about to strangle her on stage from 12 March !

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