#Anna Pirozzi

[derring-do]

Opera Streams: Mid-Late November 2024

15th: Rameau's Platée from Garsington Opera. Featuring Samuel Boden, Robert Murray, and Henry Waddington. Free!

15th: Rossini's Il Turco in Italia from Teatro Galli Rimini. Featuring Nahuel di Pierro, Elena Galitskaya, and Francisco Brito. Free!

17th: Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco from Malmö Opera. Featuring Ania Jeruc, Bror Magnus Tødenes, and Fredrik Zetterström. Rental.

17th: Handel's Theodora from Teatro Real. Featuring Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato, and Iestyn Davies. Subscription.

19th: Bizet's Carmen from San Francisco Opera. Featuring Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Jonathan Tetelman, Christian Van Horn, and Louise Alder. Rental (according to their website that is, but last time they just... didn't charge me).

22nd: Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress from Den Norske Opera & Ballett. Featuring Thomas Atkins, Mari Eriksmoen, and Aleksander Nohr. Free!

30th: Verdi's La Forza del Destino from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring Anna Pirozzi, Brian Jagde, Artur Rucinski, and John Relyea. Free!

UPDATE: The Donizetti Festival is streaming all of this year's opera productions via subscription and/or rental on their platform for an indefinite period.

22nd: Don Pasquale

23rd: Roberto Devereux

29th: Zoraida di Granata

Plus: all of the Met's Puccini recordings, video and audio, are FREE through the end of the month!

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube 5

Nabucco

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Renato Bruson, Ghena Dimitrova; conducted by Riccardo Muti; no subtitles)

Teatro di San Carlo, 1997 (Renato Bruson, Lauren Flanigan; conducted by Paolo Carognani; no subtitles)

Ankara State Opera, 2006 (Eralp Kıyıcı, Nilgün Akkerman; conducted by Sunay Muratov; no subtitles)

St. Margarethen Opera Festival, 2007 (Igor Morosow, Gabriella Morigi; conducted by Ernst Märzendorfer; English subtitles)

Rome Opera, 2011 (Leo Nucci, Csilla Boross; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English and German subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 2013 (Vladimir Stoyanov, Anna Pirozzi; conducted by Michele Mariotti; Italian subtitles)

Rome Opera, 2013 (Luca Salsi, Tatiana Serjan; conducted by Riccardo Muti; no subtitles)

Gran Teatro Nacional, Perú, 2015 (Giuseppe Altomare, Rachele Stanisci; conducted by Fernando Valcárcel; Spanish subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 2017 (Plácido Domingo, Liudmyla Monastyrska; conducted by James Levine; Spanish subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2017 (George Gagnidze, Susanna Branchini; conducted by Daniel Oren; English subtitles)

La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1981 (Frederica von Stade, Francisco Araiza, Paolo Montarsolo; conducted by Claudio Abbado; English subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1983 (Kathleen Kuhlmann, Laurence Dale, Claudio Desderi; conducted by Donato Renzetti; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1988 (Ann Murray, Francisco Araiza, Walter Berry; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; English subtitles)

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1991 (Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Toshiro Gorobe, Domenico Trimarchi; conducted by Antonello Allemandi; Japanese subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Houston Grand Opera, 1995 (Cecilia Bartoli, Raúl Giménez, Enzo Dara; conducted by Bruno Campanella; no subtitles)

Rossini Opera Festival, 2000 (Sonia Ganassi, Juan Diego Flórez, Bruno Praticó; conducted by Carlo Rizzi; Italian subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2008 (Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Bruno de Simone; conducted by Patrick Summers; German subtitles)

Romeo Opera, 2015 (Serena Malfi, Juan Francisco Gatell, Alessandro Corbelli; conducted by Alejo Pérez; Italian and English subtitles)

Lille Opera, 2016 (Emily Fons, Taylor Stayton, Renato Girolami; conducted by Yves Parmentier; English subtitles)

Boboli Gardens, Florence, 2020 (Svetlina Stoyanova, Josh Lovell, Daniel Miroslaw; conducted by Sándor Károlyi; no subtitles)

Lucia di Lammermoor

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1967 (Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Mario Lanfranchi film, 1971 (Anna Moffo, Lajos Kosma; conducted by Carlo Felice Cillario; English subtitles)

Bregenz Festival, 1982 (Katia Ricciarelli, José Carreras; conducted by Lamberto Gardelli; no subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Opera Australia, 1986 (Joan Sutherland, Richard Greager; conducted by Richard Bonynge; English subtitles)

Teatro Carlo Felice, 2003 (Stefania Bonfadelli, Marcelo Álvarez; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; Japanese subtitles)

San Francisco Opera, 2009 (Natalie Dessay, Giuseppe Filianoti; conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce; English subtitles)

Amarillo Opera, 2013 (Hanan Alattar, Eric Barry; conducted by Michael Ching; English subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2015 (Elena Mosuc, Juan Diego Flórez; conducted by Marco Armiliato; French subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2018 (Lisette Oropesa, Javier Camerana; conducted by Daniel Oren; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2022 (Lisette Oropesa, Benjamin Bernheim; conducted by Evelino Pidó; English subtitles)

Il Trovatore

Claudio Fino studio film, 1957 (Mario del Monaco, Leyla Gencer, Fedora Barbieri, Ettore Bastianini; conducted by Fernando Previtali; English subtitles)

Wolfgang Nagel studio film, 1975 (Franco Bonisolli, Raina Kabaivanska, Viorica Cortez, Giorgio Zancanaro; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Japanese subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1978 (Plácido Domingo, Raina Kabaivanska, Fiorenza Cossotto, Piero Cappuccilli; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 1983 (Kenneth Collins, Joan Sutherland, Lauris Elms, Jonathan Summers; conducted by Richard Bonynge, English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1988 (Luciano Pavarotti, Eva Marton, Dolora Zajick, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 2013 (Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Elena Manistinta, Alexey Markov; conducted by Paolo Carignani; English subtitles)

Temporada Lirica a Coruña, 2015 (Gregory Kunde, Angela Meade, Marianne Cornetti, Juan Jesús Rodriguez; conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson; no subtitles)

Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liége, 2018 (Fabio Sartori, Yolanda Auyanet, Violeta Urmana, Mario Cassi; conducted by Daniel Oren; French subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2019 (Yusif Eyvazov, Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Luca Salsi; conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi; German subtitles)

Teatro Verdi di Pisa, 2021 (Murat Karahan, Carolina López Moreno, Victória Pitts, Cesar Méndez; conducted by Marco Guidarini; no subtitles)

[delectablywaywardbeard-blog]

Napoli, al San Carlo Norma è divisa tra i druidi e il Risorgimento

Regia metateatrale di Justin Way, dirige Lorenzo Passerini Successo alla prima per il nuovo allestimento del capolavoro di Bellini. Nel cast Anna Pirozzi (Norma), Freddie De Tommaso (Pollione), Ekaterina Gubanova (Adalgisa) 14/03/2024 Fabio Cappelli source

[hearsandsights]

Opéra Turandot de Puccini - mise en scène par Robert Wilson - le 22/11 à l’Opéra Bastille, une durée raisonnable (2h30), une histoire mise en scène sobrement grâce à l’immobilisme des personnages et aux couleurs et aux lumières principalement, ce qui permet de se concentrer sur le récit d l’une façon différente : j’aime la lenteur de mouvement dans les spectacles mais il faut que le récit avance, ce qui est le cas. Finalement mise en gaieté grâce au jeu de scène du trio de joyeux lurons Ping Pang Pong…. Une belle découverte de l’air très connu Nessum Dorma, tout comme celle de tous les interprètes, coup de ❤️ découverte pour Anna Pirozzi en Turandot (timbre de voix et vibrato original et rafraîchissant!) Découverte ok de Brian Jagde en Calaf, Erminela Jaho en Liu, trio Ping - Florian Mbia - Pang Pong, fini le 29/11 => je recommande si vous appréciez le « low » motion

[personal-reporter]

Lacmus Festival 2023

La settima edizione di Lacmus Festival si terrà dal 6 al 17 luglio sul Lago di Como in Tremezzina, a Bellagio e in Brianza, con artisti di fama internazionale e talenti emergenti, insieme ai direttori artistici Louis Lortie e Paolo Bressan in ben 12 concerti. La programmazione di quest’anno sarà incentrata su Sergej Rachmaninov, di cui ricorrono il 150° anniversario della nascita e l'80° della morte, che fu uno dei più grandi virtuosi del pianoforte e al suo strumento dedicò numerosi capolavori, spesso di enorme complessità tecnica per l’interprete. Nel programma del Festival verranno inclusi compositori che hanno vissuto fuori dalla loro patria, come l’ungherese György Ligeti, di cui si ricroda il centenario della nascita, o il russo Igor Stravinskij. Obiettivo di Lacmus Festival è onorare lo spirito di resilienza che ha accompagnato l’esilio forzato di tanti grandi musicisti, la cui forza creativa ha saputo vincere le difficoltà che da sempre accompagnano chi lascia la propria patria tra Villa del Balbianello, Villa Carlotta, il Santuario della Madonna del Soccorso ad Ossuccio, la Greenway del Lago di Como, il Grand Hotel Tremezzo, Castello Durini ad Alzate Brianza e Villa Melzi a Bellagio, oltre a nuove location, come il Parco Teresio Olivelli di Tremezzo e l’Abbazia di San Benedetto in Val Perlana, immersa nei boschi ed accessibile solo a piedi. Fra le sorprese che accompagnano Lacmus Festival, c’è la prima edizione del Premio per pianisti Guglielmina Durini Litta contessa di Monza, in omaggio alla nobildonna milanese nata nel 1837 e scomparsa ai primi del Novecento, infaticabile promotrice culturale ed eccellente pianista.  Il Premio, in collaborazione con LacMus Festival, sarà assegnato nel corso della serata con il concerto in programma a Castello Durini, il 9 luglio. Il sipario si aprirà giovedì 6 luglio a Villa del Balbianello con  il direttore artistico di LacMus Festival Louis Lortie, insieme ad un violoncellista emergente, il coreano Jaemin Han, risultato il più giovane vincitore nella storia del prestigioso Concorso Enescu nel 2021. Venerdì 7 luglio Lacmus Festival farà tappa a Villa Carlotta, e vedrà riunito il duo formato da Louis Lortie e Hélène Mercier, che hanno spesso condiviso avventure concertistiche e discografiche. Over the Rainbow è il titolo del terzo concerto, in programma a Villa Melzi d’Eril sabato 8 luglio, con star della serata il soprano Anna Pirozzi, considerata una delle massime interpreti del repertorio verdiano della sua generazione, in un viaggio musicale tra le più note arie del repertorio operistico, per approdare al musical e alla canzone napoletana. Domenica 9 luglio il festival si sposta in Brianza, al Castello Durini di Alzate, per A Night at the Castle, con l’italiano Giovanni Bertolazzi, premiato al Concorso Liszt a Budapest nel 2021, e l’ucraino Illia Ovcharenko, che nel 2022 ha vinto l’Honens International Piano Competition. Per il pubblico martedì 11 luglio l’appuntamento è in mattinata all’Abbazia di San Benedetto in Val Perlana, con Luca Giovannini, primo premio al Johannes Brahms Competition e al Grand Prize di Salisburgo. Nella stessa giornata ritorna la Greenway Musicale del Lago di Como, dove si alternano passeggiate ed ascolti di intermezzi musicali, affidati ad una schiera di giovani e talentuosi interpreti. L’affascinante soprano tedesco Christiane Karg sarà la protagonista mercoledì 12 luglio insieme al baritono Michael Nagy, per Aimez-vous Brahms, interamente dedicato al genio tedesco a Villa Carlotta, dove il compositore soggiornò. Pwr A Rachmaninov Celebration, giovedì 13 luglio a Villa del Balbianello, ci sara il pianista Alexander Kashpurin, formatosi a San Pietroburgo ed allievo di Louis Lortie. Accanto agli artisti di fama internazionale e ai giovanissimi emergenti, si segnala l’appuntamento con la Cappella Musicale del Duomo di Milano diretta da Monsignor Massimo Palombella, che percorrerà le tappe più significative dell’anno liturgico attraverso il canto gregoriano e la polifonia rinascimentale al Santuario della Beata Vergine del Soccorso di Ossuccio, venerdì 14 luglio. Sabato 15 luglio al Parco Teresio Olivelli di Tremezzo ci sarà Rhapsody in Blue on the Waterfront e un programma molto vario del pianista americano Andrew Von Oeyen e dalla banda di ottoni dei Quintessenza Brass. Non mancherà il concerto all’alba al Parco di Mezzegra, seguito da una sessione di yoga, domenica 16 luglio, con  Raffaele Putzolu, uno dei più brillanti chitarristi italiani, e un recital in cui, accanto ad un omaggio a Bach, spiccano pagine di Tárrega, Villa-Lobos e Rodrigo, di ispirazione iberica e sudamericana. Il concerto di chiusura, previsto per lunedì 17 luglio al Grand Hotel Tremezzo, vede insieme l direttore artistico Louis Lortie al pianoforte e Danusha Waskiewicz, viola solista dei Berliner Philharmoniker e della Luzern Festival Orchestra, Jan Vogler, violoncellista di fama mondiale e artista Sony, e Markus Daunert, violinista e cofondatore della Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Read the full article

[joaquimblog]

IL TROVATORE 5/5: LEONORA

IL TROVATORE 5/5: LEONORA

Avui finalitzo les cinc propostes que us he fet en ocasió de les representacions que estan tenint lloc al Liceu de la popular òpera verdiana Il Trovatore, amb l’apunt dedicat al personatge de Leonora i amb la difícil escena del quart acte que s’inicia amb el recitatiu “Vanne,��lasciami…Timor di me” contiua amb la hipnòtica i bellíssima ària “D’amor sull’ali rosee” per seguir amb el “Misere” amb la…

[tenshichan1013]

frozen broadway facts

[perfectlypattimurin]

new frozen broadway promo picture! ❄️

[goalhofer]

2020 Olympics Italy Roster

Diving

Lorenzo Marsaglia (Rome)

Giovanni Tocci (Cosenza)

Noemi Batki (Trieste)

Sarah Jodoin-Di Maria (Rome)

Elena Bertocchi (Rome)

Chiara Pellacani (Rome)

Gymnastics

Ludovico Edalli (Busto Arsizio)

Marco Lodadio (Frascati)

Alice D’Amato (Genoa)

Asia D’Amato (Genoa)

Vanessa Ferrari (Genivolta)

Martina Maggio (Villasanta)

Lara Mori (Montevarchi)

Alexandra Agiurgiuculese (Udine)

Milie Baldassarri (Ravena)

Alessia Maurelli (Rivoli)

Martina Centofanti (Rome)

Martina Santandrea (Bentivoglio)

Agnese Duranti (Spoleto)

Daniela Mogurean (Padua)

Karate

Angelo Crescenzo (Sarno)

Luigi Busà (Avola)

Mattia Busato (Mirano)

Viviana Bottaro (Rome)

Silvia Semeraro (Faggiano)

Pentathlon

Elena Micheli (Rome)

Alice Sotero (Asti)

Sailing

Giulio Calabrò (Rome)

Giacomo Ferrari (Rome)

Mattia Camboni (Rome)

Ruggero Tita (Rovereto)

Bianca Caruso (Rome)

Caterina Banti (Rome)

Silvia Zennaro (Chioggia)

Elena Berta (Rome)

Marta Maggetti (Cagliari)

Shooting

Tammaro Cassandro (Capua)

Gabriele Rossetti (Florence)

Lorenzo Bacci (Firenze)

Tommaso Chelli (Livorno)

Mauro De Filippis (Taranto)

Marco De Nicolo (Legnano)

Ricardo Mazzetti (Busto Arsizio)

Paolo Monna (Fasano)

Marco Suppini (Porretta Terme)

Diana Bacosi (Città Della Pieve)

Chiara Cainero (Udine)

Sofia Ceccarello (Lugo)

Jessica Rossi (Cento)

Silvana Stanco (Winterthur, Switzerland)

Softball

Alexia Lacatena (Byram Township, New Jersey)

Ilaria Cacciamani (Macerta)

Greta Cecchetti (Bollate)

Elisa Cecchetti (Bollate)

Marta Gasparotto (Monfalcone)

Erika Piancastelli (Carlsbad, California)

Andrea Filler (Ft. Wayne, Indiana)

Amanda Fama (Anaheim, California)

Giulia Longhi (Bussolengo)

Andrea Howard (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Emily Carosone (Orlando, Florida)

Giulia Koutsoyanopoulos (Mission Viejo, California)

Fabrizia Marrone (Bussolengo)

Laura Vigna (Chieri)

Beatrice Ricchi (Rimini)

Climbing

Ludovico Fossali (Vignola)

Michael Piccolruaz (Bolzano)

Laura Rogora (Rome)

Swimming

Alberto Razzetti (Lavagna)

Federico Burdisso (Pavia)

Thomas Ceccon (Thiene)

Marco De Tullio (Bari)

Gabriele Detti (Livorno)

Nicolò Martinenghi (Varese)

Gregorio Paltrinieri (Carpi)

Mario Sanzullo (Massa Di Somma)

Domenico Acerenza (Potenza)

Stefano Ballo (Bolzano)

Giacomo Carini (Piacenza)

Santo Condorelli (Lake Oswego, Oregon)

Stefano Di Cola (San Benedetto Del Tronto)

Pier Matteazzi (Veneto)

Alessandro Miressi (Turin)

Federico Poggio (Voghera)

Matteo Restivo (Udine)

Simon Sabbioni (Rimini)

Lorenzo Zazzeri (Florence)

Manuel Frigo (Cittadella)

Matteo Ciampi (Rome)

Filippo Megli (Florence)

Rachele Bruni (Florence)

Martina Caramignoli (Rieti)

Martina Carraro (Genoa)

Sara Franceschi (Livorno)

Margherita Panziera (Montebelluna)

Federica Pellegrini (Mirano)

Benedetta Pilato (Taranto)

Simona Quadarella (Rome)

Ilaria Bianchi (Castel San Pietro Terme)

Ilaria Cusinato (Cittadella)

Elena Di Liddo (Bisceglie)

Francesca Fangio (Livorno)

Anna Mascolo (Florence)

Stefania Pirozzi (Benevento)

Giulia Vetrano (Turin)

Arianna Castiglioni (Busto Arsizio)

Linda Cerruti (Savona)

Costanza Ferro (Genoa)

Beatrice Callegari (Castelfranco Veneto)

Domiziana Cavanna (Pietra Ligure)

Francesca Deidda (Cagliari)

Costanza Di Camillo (Rome)

Gemma Galli (Melzo)

Enrica Piccoli (Castelfranco Veneto)

Taekwondo

Vito Dell’Aquila (Mesagne)

Simon Alessio (Livorno)

Wrestling

Frank Chamizo (Rome)

Abraham Conyedo (Rome)

Archery

Mauro Nespoli (Voghera)

Tatiana Andreoli (Venaria Reale)

Lucilla Boari (Mantua)

Chiara Rebagliati (Savona)

Athletics

Lamont Jacobs; Jr. (Rome)

Filippo Tortu (Milan)

Eseosa Desalu (Casalmaggiore)

Antonio Infantino (London, U.K.)

Davide Re (Milan)

Edoardo Scotti (Lodi)

Yeman Crippa (Trento)

Paolo Dal Molin (Belluno)

Hassane Fofana (Gavardo)

Alessandro Sibilio (Naples)

Amed Abdelwahed (Rome)

Ala Zoghlami (Palermo)

Osama Zoghlami (Palermo)

Lorenzo Patta (Oristano)

Vladimir Aceti (Giussano)

Yassine El Fathaouli (Belfaa, Morocco)

Eyob Faniel (Bassano Del Grappa)

Yassine Rachik (Casablanca, Morocco)

Francesco Fortunato (Andria)

Massimo Stano (Palo Del Colle)

Federico Tontodonati (Turin)

Andrea Agrusti (Sassari)

Teodorico Caporaso (Benevento)

Marco De Luca (Rome)

Filippo Randazzo (Cattagirone)

Tobia Bocchi (Parma)

Andrea Dallavalle (Piacenza)

Chiebuke Ihemeje (Verdellino)

Stefano Sottile (Borgosesia)

Gianmarco Tamberi (Civitanova Marche)

Claudio Stecchi (Bagno A Ripoli)

Leonardo Fabbri (Bagno A Ripoli)

Nick Ponzio (San Diego, California)

Zane Weir (Westville, South Africa)

Giovanni Faloci (Umbertide)

Anna Bongiorni (Pisa)

Vittoria Fontana (Gallarate)

Gloria Hooper (Villafranca Di Verona)

Dalia Kaddari (Cagliari)

Elena Bellò (Schio)

Federica Del Buono (Vicenza)

Gaia Sabbatini (Teramo)

Nadia Battocletti (Cles)

Luminosa Bogliolo (Albenga)

Elisa Di Lazzaro (Trieste)

Eleonara Marchiando (Aosta)

Linda Olivieri (Turin)

Yadis Matrone (Sicignano Degli Alburni)

Zaynab Dosso (Rome)

Johanelis Herrera (Vicenza)

Irene Siragusa (Poggibonsi)

Rebecca Borga (Treviso)

Maria Chigbolu (Rome)

Ayomide Folorunso (Fidenza)

Raphaela Lukudo (Modena)

Alice Mangione (Niscemi)

Petra Nardelli (Bolzano)

Anna Polinari (Verona)

Gia Butler (Los Angeles, California)

Giovanna Epis (Venice)

Eleonora Giorgi (Milan)

Antonella Palmisano (Mottola)

Valentina Trapletti (Magenta)

Dariya Derkach (Pagani)

Alessia Trost (Pordenone)

Elena Vallortigara (Schio)

Roberta Bruni (Rome)

Elisa Molinarolo (Soave)

Daisy Osakue (Turin)

Sara Fantini (Fidenza)

Basketball

Marco Spissu (Sassari)

Nicco Mannion (Phoenix, Arizona)

Stefano Tonut (Cantù)

Danilo Gallinari (Sant’Angelo Lodigiano)

Nicolò Melli (Reggio Emilia)

Simon Fontecchio (Pescara)

Amedeo Tessitori (Pisa)

Giampaolo Ricci (Rome)

Riccardo Moraschini (Cento)

Michel Vitali (Bologna)

Achille Polonara (Ancona)

Alessandro Pajola (Ancona)

Chiara Consolini (Peschiara Del Garda)

Rae D’Alie (Waterford, Wisconsin)

Marcella Filippi (Bergamo)

Giulia Rulli (Rome)

Boxing

Giordana Sorrentino (Rome)

Irma Testa (Torre Annunziata)

Rebecca Nicoli (Nicoli)

Angela Carini (Naples)

Canoeing

Giovanni De Gennaro (Brescia)

Manfredi Rizza (Pavia)

Luca Beccaro (Monsélice)

Samuele Burgo (Siracusa)

Marta Bertoncelli (Ferrara)

Stefi De Gennaro (Brescia)

Francesca Genzo (Trieste)

Cycling

Alberto Bettiol (Castelfiorentino)

Damiano Caruso (Ragusa)

Giulio Ciccone (Chieti)

Filippo Ganna (Verbania)

Gianni Moscon (Trento)

Vincenzo Nibali (Messina)

Simon Consonni (Ponte San Pietro)

Francesco Lamon (Mirano)

Jonathan Milan (Tolmezzo)

Elia Viviani (Isola Della Scala)

Luca Braidot (Gorizia)

Nadir Colledani (San Daniele Del Friuli)

Gerhard Kerschbaumer (Bressanone)

Giacomo Fantoni (Zevio)

Marta Bastianelli (Velletri)

Marta Cavalli (Cremona)

Elisa Longo-Borghini (Ornavasso)

Soraya Paladin (Treviso)

Martina Alzini (Legnano)

Rachele Barbieri (Pavullo Nel Frignano)

Martina Fidanza (Ponte San Pietro)

Vittoria Guazzini (Pontedera)

Letizia Paternoster (Cles)

Elisa Balsamo (Cuneo)

Eva Lechner (Bolzano)

Equestrian

Francesco Zaza (Monza)

Emmanuele Guadiano (Matera)

Susanna Bordone (Milan)

Vittoria Panizzon (Rome)

Arianna Schivo (Turin)

Fencing

Marco Fichera (Acireale)

Enrico Garozzo (Catannia)

Andrea Santarelli (Foligno)

Gabriele Cimini (Pisa)

Andrea Cassarà (Passirano)

Alessio Foconi (Rome)

Daniel Garozzo (Acireale)

Giorgio Avola (Modica)

Enrico Berrè (Rome)

Luca Curatoli (Naples)

Luigi Samele (Foggia)

Aldo Montano (Livorno)

Rossella Fiamingo (Catania)

Federica Isola (Milan)

Mara Navarria (Carlino)

Alberta Santuccio (Catania)

Martina Batini (Pisa)

Arianna Errigo (Monza)

Alice Volpi (Siena)

Erica Cipressa (Mirano)

Martina Criscio (Foggia)

Rossella Gregorio (Salerno)

Irene Vecchi (Livorno)

Michela Battiston (Palmanova)

Golf

Guido Migliozzi (Vicenza)

Renato Paratore (Rome)

Giulia Molinaro (Camposampiero)

Lucrezia Colombotto-Rosso (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Judo

Manuel Lombardo (Turin)

Fabio Basile (Rivoli)

Christian Parlati (Naples)

Nicholas Mungai (Pistoia)

Francesca Milani (Rome)

Odette Giuffrida (Rome)

Maria Centracchio (Castel Di Sangro)

Alice Bellandi (Brescia)

Rowing

Gennaro Di Mauro (Massa Di Somma)

Giovanni Abagnale (Gragnano)

Marco Di Costanzo (Naples)

Stefano Oppo (Oristano)

Pietro Ruta (Gravedona)

Matteo Castaldo (Naples)

Matteo Lodo (Terracina)

Bruno Rosetti (Ravenna)

Giuseppe Vicino (Naples)

Giacomo Gentili (Cremona)

Andrea Panizza (Lecco)

Luca Rambaldi (Ferrara)

Simon Venier (Latina)

Aisha Rocek (Erba)

Kiri Tontodonati (Genoa)

Chiara Ondoli (Cittiglio)

Alessandra Patelli (Conegliano)

Federica Cesarini (Cittiglio)

Valentina Rodini (Cremona)

Stefania Gobbi (Padua)

Valentina Iseppi (Gavardo)

Veronica Lisi (Padua)

Alessandra Montesano (Cassalmaggiore)

Skateboarding

Ivan Federico (Cirié)

Alessandro Mazzara (Erice)

Asia Lanzi (Bologna)

Surfing

Leonardo Fioravanti (Rome)

Table Tennis

Debora Vivarelli (Bolzano)

Tennis

Fabio Fognini (Arma Di Taggia)

Lorenzo Sonego (Turin)

Lorenzo Musetti (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Camila Giorgi (Tirrenia)

Jasmine Paolini (Bagni Di Lucca)

Sara Errani (Bologna)

Triathlon

Gianluca Pozzatti (Trento)

Delian Stateff (Rome)

Alice Betto (Cavaria)

Angelica Olmo (Pavia)

Verena Steinhauser (Brixen)

Volleyball

Daniel Lupo (Rome)

Paolo Nicolai (Ortona)

Adrian Carambula (Rome)

Enrico Rossi (Cesenatico)

Jiří Kovář (Civitanova Marche)

Luca Vettori (Parma)

Osmany Juantorena (Trento)

Simon Giannelli (Bolzano)

Ivan Zaytsev (Spoleto)

Matteo Piano (Asti)

Massimo Colaci (Gagliano Del Capo)

Gianluca Galassi (Trento)

Riccardo Sbertoli (Milan)

Simon Anzani (Como)

Alessandro Michieletto (Desenzano Del Garda)

Daniel Lavia (Cariati)

Marta Menegatti (Rovigo)

Viktoria Orsi-Toth (Santeramo In Colle)

Indre Sorokaite (Kariya, Japan)

Ofelia Malinov (Bergamo)

Monica De Gennaro (Piano Di Sorrento)

Raphaela Folie (Bolzano)

Alessia Orro (Oristano)

Caterina Bosetti (Busto Arsizio)

Cristina Chirichella (Naples)

Anna Danesi (Brescia)

Sarah Fahr (Piombino)

Elena Pietrini (Imola)

Miriam Sylla (Palermo)

Paola Egonu (Cittadella)

Water Polo

Marco Del Lungo (Tarquinia)

Francesco Di Fulvio (Pescara)

Stefano Luongo (Chiavari)

Pietro Figlioli (Albany Creek, Australia)

Nicholas Presciutti (Rome)

Alessandro Velotto (Naples)

Vincenzo Renzuto-Iodice (Naples)

Gonzalo Echenique (Rosario, Argentina)

Niccolò Figari (Genoa)

Michaël Bodegas (La-Seyne-Sur-Mer, France)

Matteo Aicardi (Finale Ligure)

Vincenzo Dulce (Brescia)

Gianmarco Nicosia (Busto Arisizio)

Weightlifting

Davide Ruiu (Sassari)

Mirko Zanni (Podenone)

Antonino Pizzolato (Castelvetrano)

Maria Alemanno (Galatina)

Giorgia Bordignon (Gallarate)

[westendwithsteph]

Frozen: The Broadway Musical Review

With Frozen due to open in the West End in a few months (although who knows what will happen with COVID-19 causing all the theatres to close), it seemed like the perfect time for me to review the show when I saw it in New York last December.

Frozen is a musical based on Disney’s film by the same name and was playing at the St James Theatre in New York City, until it was sadly closed during the COVID-19 lockdown. It follows the same story as the film. Anna, the feisty, positive, younger sister, sets off on a journey to find her older sister, Elsa, after she accidentally sets off an eternal winter in Arendelle at her anointment to become queen and runs away to the mountains. Anna meets Olaf, the snowman, Kristoff, the mountain man, and his reindeer, Sven, along the way and they help her on her quest to save her sister. It is a story of sisterly love and learning to love and accept yourself for who you are.

The musical, despite following the same story, brings lots of new songs and music, as well as keeping some of the classics from the 2013 movie. The first characters we properly get to meet are young Elsa and Anna, who sing ‘A Little Bit of You’, which is about them making a Olaf for the first time, and also leads to young Elsa hitting young Anna with her magic, which is really the beginning of the end for Elsa until the end of the musical when there is of course a happy ending (it wouldn’t be a Disney story without one!). I was fortunate enough to see Fiona Morgan Quinn as young Anna and Suri Marrero as young Elsa in this performance, and they were beyond phenomenal! Both had amazing voices and brought such an exciting energy to the stage. Their acting was very natural, but big enough for the whole theatre to see, they were an absolute pleasure to watch. I have seen a lot of children in stage shows and they are always amazing, but I was completely blown away by these two. They continue their excellent performances through a couple more songs, before magically growing up into Caissie Levy (Elsa) and Patti Murin (Anna) at the end of ‘Do You Want to Build a Snowman?’

(photo from @fionamorganq on Instagram)

Having described the kids as phenomenal, I am left with no words to describe the voices of Levy and Murin. They both have such power in their voices, while still being able to portray the struggles both sisters have been through. I will not say anything more about the two leads, because it is not necessary. They were cast for a reason and they show it.

One of the only things I did not love about the show was the set and staging for ‘In Summer’, Olaf’s solo song. Ryann Redmond plays the role of Olaf and does a great job of acting with her own face and body as well as puppeteering the snowman puppet (which is very cleverly designed but I will get into that later). My dislike was nothing to do with her, it was the set. Practically the entire show is full of incredibly detailed, realistic sets, except for ‘In Summer’, which has a cartoony style to it, and I know it is to show that he’s imagining, but since it’s the only time in the show where this style is used, I felt it was out of place and took away from the overall vibe of the show. If the cartoon style had been woven more into the show, especially around Olaf’s parts, I think it would have worked better, but it was only used in this one circumstance and I did not like that.

However, while I am on the topic of sets, I must talk about how stunning the rest of them are. Christopher Oram was the scenic and costume designer on this production, and I adore his designs. The sheer detail that goes into each of them is unmatched in any other show I have seen, and I ended up spending £19 on the souvenir programme, so I would be able to fully remember them! For anyone who does not know, programmes in England are usually only £10 maximum, so forking out nineteen is unheard of for me, but I could not resist. I would genuinely say that the sets alone make this production worth seeing. The costumes compliment each set amazingly as well, it makes the scenes absolutely stunning to look at.

(Kristoff (Jelani Alladin) and Anna (Patti Murin). Photo: Deen van Meer)

The special effects (by Jeremy Chernich) are so magical, and the lighting design (by Natasha Katz) just takes them to the next level. Lighting design and special effects seem to go hand in hand in this show, so I could not possibly know who designed which parts, I imagine it was a collaboration between the two though. One of the standout moments to me is when Elsa sets off the eternal winter. She touches the edge of the stage and the whole theatre turns to ice. Shards of ice shoot out of the wings and the floor is covered in dry ice smoke to look like snow. The set pieces to disguise the wings transform into snowy cliffs and its just incredible. The set change got a round of applause from the audience. It was magical to watch. The other major special effects moment I remember is near the end. The people of Arendelle are coming to capture Elsa and punish her for the eternal winter, and to protect herself Elsa makes huge icy spikes shoot up from the ground to block them out. They look so much like ice and are quite scary really. If I were one of the people of Arendelle I would certainly count them as a good reason to stay back!

(Caissie Levy as Elsa in Frozen: The Musical. Photograph: Deen van Meer)

Now I do not want to make this review too long, but it would be a crime of me to not discuss Olaf and Sven. Olaf is done in a sort of Lion King-esque style. He is a puppet attached to the actor. His feet were joined onto her feet and she controlled his arms, mouth, and head with her hands, using a not-quite-classic puppeteering set up. When they first came on, I was concerned that having the actor be taller than the Olaf puppet would be distracting, but it was quite the opposite. I found that I stopped noticing she was there and focussed mainly on the puppets face. But even on the occasions I did look at Redmond, she was mimicking the facial expressions and it almost added more to the character. Sven on the other hand, was slightly different. He was not a puppet per say, but I do not know if he could be classed as a costume either. He looked and acted just like a reindeer, but of course was not really one. He has only one person inside, controlling him (Adam Jepsen and Andrew Pirozzi switch off playing him, but you never see their faces, so I am not sure which one I saw!). The design is ingenious. It unfortunately is very difficult to explain though, but believe me when I say it is incredibly effective.

(Collin Baja and F. Michael Haynie in 'Frozen' North American Tour. Photo by Deen van Meer)

I adored watching Frozen and wish I could have seen it again while I was in New York City, but time and money were against me (NYC is awfully expensive!). I am extremely excited for it to come to London and will definitely be there as soon as I can. The cast list includes Samantha Barks as Elsa and Stephanie McKeon as Anna, two extraordinarily talented actors. Assuming it is going to be the same, or similar, to the Broadway production, I could not recommend seeing it enough, especially if you have children who love Frozen. But even if you have no children, it is so beautifully done that I have no doubts it will be enjoyed by adults too, I certainly loved it.

[muatyland]

Annunciata la stagione 2019 dell'Arena di Verona

Annunciata la stagione 2019 dell' #ArenadiVerona

Salve lettori, pochi giorni fa è stata resa pubblica la stagione 2019 della Fondazione Arena di Verona. 5 titoli di rilievo con cast stellari: La Traviata di Giuseppe Verdi, Aida di Giuseppe Verdi, Carmen di Bizet, Il Trovatore di Giuseppe Verdi e la Tosca di Giacomo Puccini.

LA TRAVIATA

21, 28 giugno 2019 (ore 21.00), 11, 19, 25 luglio 2019 (ore 21.00), 1, 8, 17, 22, 30 agosto 2019 (ore…

[delectablywaywardbeard-blog]

Il soprano Anna Pirozzi, 'canto Unesco, grande risultato simbolico'

 ”E’ un risultato simbolico di grande importanza. Non credo ci sarà alcun tipo di ricaduta concreta nel breve termine, ma è un grande orgoglio per noi che abbiamo dedicato al canto tutta la nostra vita ed energia”. Anna Pirozzi, soprano dalla rapida ascesa acclamata nei palcoscenici italiani e stranieri, commenta così la decisione dell’ Unesco di inserire la pratica del canto lirico italiano tra…

[sincerely-michael-mell]

My Audio List

I have a smaller collection that I thought, but at least I have them...

Beetlejuice

Washington, DC

Date: October 14,2018

Notes: First preview

Dear Evan Hansen

Date: May 13, 2018

Note: Mike's last show

Cast: Ben Platt, Mike Faist, Will Roland

The Prom

Date: 10-24-18

​Cast: Caitlin Kinnunen - Emma

Isabelle McCalla - Alyssa

Beth Leavel - Dee Dee Allen

Brooks Ashmanskas - Barry Glickman

Josh Lamon - Sheldon Saperstein

angie Schworer - Angie

Christopher Sieber - Trent Oliver

Coutnay Collins - Mrs. Greene

​Michael Potts - Mr.Hawkins

Ensamble - Mary Antonini, Coutney Balan, Jerusha Cavazos, Shelby Finnie, Josh Franklin, Sheldon Henry, Fernell Hogan, Joomin Hwang, Becca Lee, Wayne "Juice" Mackins, Vasthy Mompoint, Anthony Norman, Drew Redington, Teddy Toye, Kalyn West, Brittany Zeinstra

Waitress

Notes: Jessie's final show

Date: 3-24-17

​Jessie Mueller (Jenna), Charity Angel Dawson (Becky), Caitlin Houlahan (Dawn), Drew Gehling (Dr. Pomatter), William Popp (Earl), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Joe Cassidy (Cal), Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie)

Bandstand

Notes: Second preview

Date: 4-1-17

​Corey Cott (Donny Novitski), Laura Osnes (Julia Troy), Beth Leavel (Mrs. Adams), Joe Carroll (Johnny Simpson), Brandon James Ellis (Davy Zlatic), Nate Hopkins (Jimmy Campbell), Geoff Packard (Wayne Wright), Joey Pero (Nick Radel)

Be More Chill

Date: Unknown

Dear Evan Hansen

Date: 2-10-19

Cast: Andrew Barth Feldman, Mallory Bechtel, Lisa Brescia, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Alex Boniello, Michael Park, Sky Lakota-Lynch, Samantha Williams

Date: 3-15-18

Taylor Trensch, Alex Boniello, Lisa Brescia, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Michael Park, Sky Lakota-Lynch

Hamilton Chicago

Date: 10-12-16

Cast: ​​Miguel Cervantes (Alexander Hamilton), Ari Afsar (Eliza Hamilton), Joshua Henry (Aaron Burr), Karen Olivo (Angelica Schuyler), Jonathan Kirkland (George Washington), Chris De’Sean Lee (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Wallace Smith (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), José Ramos (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Samantha Marie Ware (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Alexander Gemignani (King George III), Jin Ha (Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor), José Amor (Samuel Seabury), John Michael Fiumara (Charles Lee), Remmie Bourgeois (George Eacker), José Amor, Amber Ardolino, Remmie Bourgeois, Chloë Campbell, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, John Michael Fiumara, Jin Ha, Holly James, Dashí Mitchell, Justice Moore, Emmy Raver-Lampman (Ensemble)

​Date: 10-5-16

Cast: ​Miguel Cervantes (Alexander Hamilton), Ari Afsar (Eliza Hamilton), Joshua Henry (Aaron Burr), Karen Olivo (Angelica Schuyler), Jonathan Kirkland (George Washington), Chris De’Sean Lee (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Wallace Smith (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), José Ramos (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Samantha Marie Ware (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Alexander Gemignani (King George III), Jin Ha (Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor), José Amor (Samuel Seabury), John Michael Fiumara (Charles Lee), Remmie Bourgeois (George Eacker), José Amor, Amber Ardolino, Remmie Bourgeois, Chloë Campbell, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, John Michael Fiumara, Jin Ha, Holly James, Dashí Mitchell, Justice Moore, Emmy Raver-Lampman (Ensemble)

Falsettos

Date 1-8-17 (Closing Night)

Cast: ​Christian Borle (Marvin), Stephanie J. Block (Trina), Andrew Rannells (Whizzer), Brandon Uranowitz (Mendel), Tracie Thoms (Dr. Charlotte), Betsy Wolfe (Cordelia), Anthony Rosenthal (Jason)

​Pretty Woman

Notes: Second preview

Date: 3-14-18

​Samantha Barks (Vivian), Steve Kazee (Edward), Orfeh (Kit De Luca), Jason Danieley (Philip), Eric Anderson (Mr. Thompson), Kingsley Leggs (James)

The Lion King

Date: 6-8-13

Andile Gumbi (Simba), Jaden Jordan (Young Simba), Derek Smith (Scar), Alton Fitzgerald White (Mufasa), Buyi Zama (Rafiki), Chantal Riley (Nala), Teshi Thomas (Young Nala), Jeff Binder (Timon), Ben Jeffrey (Pumbaa), Fred Berman (Zazau), James Brown-Orleans (Bonzai), Bonita J. Hamilton (Shenzi), Enrique Segura (Ed), Derrick Davis, Lindiwe Dlamini, Bongi Duma, Joel Karie, Ron Kunene, Sheryl McCallum, S'bu Ngema, Nteliseng Nkhela, Sindisiwe Nxumalo, Chondra La-Tease Profit, Vusi Sondiyazi, L. Steven Taylor, Rema Webb (Ensemble Singers), Lawrence Alexander, Lamar Baylor, Gabriel Croom, Charity de Loera, Christopher Freeman, Lisa Lewis,

Jaysin McCollum, Ray Mercer, Bravita Threatt, Natalie Turner (u/s Fireflies specialist), Donna Michelle Vaughn, Camille Workman (Ensemble Dancers)

Frozen

Date: 2-22-18

Cast: ​Caissie Levy (Elsa), Patti Murin (Anna), Jelani Alladin (Kristoff), Greg Hildreth (Olaf), John Riddle (Hans), Robert Creighton (Duke of Weselton), Kevin Del Aguila(Oaken), Timothy Hughes (Pabbie), Andrew Pirozzi (Sven), Mattea Conforti (Young Anna), Brooklyn Nelson (Young Elsa), Tracee Brazer, Wendi Bergamini, Ashley Blanchet, James Brown III (King Agnarr), Claire Camp, Lauren Nicole Chapman, Jeremy Davis, Kali Grinder, Zach Hess, Donald Jones JR. Nina Lafarga, Ross Lekites, Austin Lesch, Synthia Link, Adam Perry, Olivia Phillip (Bulda), Noah J. Ricketts, Ann Sanders (Queen Iduna), Jacob Smith, Nicholas Ward

​Ben Platt (Boston)

(Concert)

Date: May 9, 2019

[joaquimblog]

LA TEMPORADA 2019/2020 DEL GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU

LA TEMPORADA 2019/2020 DEL GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU

  Mai una temporada havia estat tan ben presentada i mai el contingut havia estat tan decebedor com en aquesta ocasió.

Ahir el Liceu presentava al migdia la seva propera temporada a la premsa i al vespre en una gala amb més noms de relleu cantant sobre l’escenari que en el vergonyant proper homenatge a Caballé i davant d’un teatre abarrotat de liceistes amb ganes d’escoltar i saber que ens…

[tenshichan1013]

sunday thanks

[operaeoperanews]

#Repost @annapirozzisoprano • • • • • • Having a wonderful time singing #Aida at @arenadiverona! I can't wait for our next performance on July 5! • "Nei panni della protagonista Anna Pirozzi appare in stato di grazia, già in possesso di una voce di soprano lirico spinto potente, ben timbrata, ben estesa e di una tecnica salda. In "Ritorna vincitor... Numi pietà" ha cantato con una grinta e sensibilità ammalianti, filati raffinati, colori incisivi, sfumature passionali. Meglio ancora "O cieli azzurri", dove la voce ha letteralmente galleggiato sopra lo spazio enorme dell’anfiteatro con luna delicatezza raramente sentita e chiaroscuri raffinatissimi. Un’Aida senza un minimo errore, mai sopra righe." -Irina Sorokina, @apemusicale • 📸 @ennevifoto | Arena di Verona https://www.instagram.com/p/BzSpJKViptj/?igshid=129ezxnr9kcp4