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THE CENTER OF MUSIC Concerts in the Ridotto Gavazzeni 5th edition Inaugural concert Saturday, May 23, 2026 with Constance Prince   On Saturday, May 23 (6 p.m.), it will be pianist Costanza Principe who will inaugurate the fifth edition of Il Centro della Musica, a series of eight concerts promoted by the Donizetti Theater Foundation in collaboration with the Bergamo City Council's Department of Social Policies and scheduled for Saturday afternoon in the Ridotto Gavazzeni of the Donizetti Theater. The concert, produced in collaboration with the Vittorio Polli and AnnaMaria Stoppani Foundation and Biblioteca Musicale Victor de Sabata and Aldo Ceccato, will feature performances of some of Robert Schumann's most emblematic pages, the Kinderszenen, op. 15 and the Three Fantastic Pieces, op. 111, two collections that, despite their seemingly fragmentary dimensions, draw a coherent path between memory, imagination and restlessness. In the Childish Scenes, the composer's gaze rests on a childhood filtered through memory, suspended between simplicity and melancholy, while in the Fantastic Pieces, the writing becomes freer and more visionary, shot through with contrasts and emotional tensions. Schumann does not construct linear narratives, but suggests images, moods, flashes of thought. It is music that moves by allusion, asking the performer to become a sensitive medium rather than a protagonist. In this space fits the research of Costanza Principe, a pianist capable of combining rigor and imagination, attention to detail and poetic breath. The concert is also included in the cycle of events dedicated to Maestro Gianandrea Gavazzen, on the 30th anniversary of his death. Born into a family of musicians, Costanza Principe began performing in public when she was only seven years old, graduating in 2010 from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan under Vincenzo Balzani. In 2015 she received her Bachelor of Music degree with honors and in 2017 her Master of Music degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she has studied since 2011 with Christopher Elton. In 2020 she graduated with honors from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where she has studied since 2017 with Benedetto Lupo. Winner of prizes in international piano competitions, including the Lilian Davies Prize from the Royal Academy of Music in London, second prize at the Beethoven Society of Europe Intercollegiate Senior Competition (UK), the Concours International de Piano in Lagny-sur- Marne (France) and the International Competition "Premio Pecar" in Gorizia, Costanza Principe has performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America. After debuting as a soloist with orchestra at the age of fifteen with three Mozart concertos under the direction of Aldo Ceccato, Costanza Principe later collaborated with numerous orchestras including Filarmonica "A. Toscanini" of Parma, Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto e Solisti Veneti, Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica Provincial de Santa Fe, Orquesta Classica da Madeira, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra, Turkish National Youth Orchestra, Royal

Prose Season 2025-2026 Richard III by William Shakesperare with Maria Paiato May 9 to 17 at the Donizetti Theatre   The Prose Season 2025-2026 of the Donizetti Theater Foundation concludes in the sign of Shakespeare: in fact, from Saturday, May 9 to Sunday, May 17, Riccardo III, an absolute masterpiece of Shakespearean theater, is scheduled in the main city theater. Bringing it to the stage will be Maria Paiato, in the role of the protagonist, along with a large group of actors: Riccardo Bocci, Tommaso Cardarelli, Francesca Ciocchetti, Ludovica D'Auria, Giovanna Di Rauso, Giovanni Franzoni, Igor Horvat, Emiliano Masala, Cristiano Moioli, Lorenzo Vio, Carlotta Viscovo. Directed by Andrea Chiodi. A meeting with Maria Paiato and company around the show is scheduled for Thursday, May 14, 2026, at the Music Room of the Donizetti Theater at 6 p.m. Coordinated by Maria Grazia Panigada, Artistic Director of the Prose Season and Other Paths. All the talent and extraordinary strength of Maria Paiato meet Shakespeare's Richard III . A project strongly desired by the Venetian actress herself, which has come to life thanks to the understanding with director Andrea Chiodi: a correspondence in the look at the text that wants Paiato in the role of King Richard the usurper, the evil genius, the kind of cruel, Machiavellian politician, repeatedly targeted by Elizabethan theater. His is an interpretation of the male role that aims to restore a Shakespeare faithful to the original. "Now is the winter of our discontent become glorious summer under this sun of York": this is how the Bard's tragedy, among his most famous plays, opens, divided into five acts, recounting the rise to the throne and sudden fall of the wicked Richard, Duke of Gloucester. It is the last of the four plays in Shakespeare's minor tetralogy and concludes the dramatic tale of English history that began with Henry IV Part I. William Shakespeare wrote it around 1592, dramatizing the historical events that occurred about a century earlier when, at the end of the War of the Roses, Plantagenet power in England was replaced by the Tudor dynasty. These events, culminating in Richard's defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, were well known to all Englishmen of Shakespeare's time, and the audience identified with the political factions depicted on stage. At the center of the play is the figure of Richard: in a deformed physique, he packs an indomitable negative force, and his fidelity to his destiny arouses, despite the character's cruelty, an undeniable fascination. In his director's notes Andrea Chiodi writes: "Fascinating, ironic, seductive, yet frighteningly lucid, Richard is the manifestation of an anomaly of the soul. When Maria Paiato asked me to work together on Richard III, I immediately said yes, but with the desire not to dwell on the deformity but on the head and heart of the character that Shakespeare's skilful writing gives us back: it is not his disability that interests me but his irony in his ability to seduce. Evil has always

THE CENTER OF MUSIC Concerts in the Gavazzeni Auditorium 5th edition Eight concerts scheduled on Saturday afternoons in the Ridotto Gavazzeni of the Donizetti Theater: back for the fifth consecutive year is Il Centro della Musica, a well-established event promoted by the Donizetti Theater Foundation in collaboration with the Bergamo City Council's Social Policies Department. Eight concerts, scheduled between May 23 and July 11, offering a wide cross-section of sounds, rhythms and colors hosted in a cozy venue that enhances the intimate dimension of the concert by encouraging a more direct, almost confidential listening. A precious opportunity to be able to enter the city's main theater and its Ridotto named after a great conductor, on an unusual day and time. An original way to experience the city center by combining the magic of music with being together in the theater. "At its fifth edition, The Center for Music is one of the initiatives that best testifies to our Foundation's openness to musical realities, and therefore cultural realities in a more general sense, of our territory, reflecting a spirit of sharing artistic proposals that is naturally transmitted in the "dialogue" established between performers and audience." specifies Massimo Boffelli, General Director of the Donizetti Theater Foundation, "The renewed collaboration with the Department of Social Policies of the City of Bergamo is a sign of an institutional synergy that aims to make the most of an initiative with an inclusive character, intended for audiences of all ages." "This year also consolidates the partnerships with the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, Ensemble Locatelli, CDpM, and Associazione Musica Aperta, already present in previous editions of Il Centro della Musica and in other festivals promoted by our Foundation, while we welcome the entry of the Vittorio Polli and Annamaria Stoppani Foundation, the Società del Quartetto and the Associazione La Magnifica Comunità. The increase in the number of concerts and thus partners is further proof of the vitality of the review itself," Boffelli continued. The fifth edition of The Center for Music begins May 23 with a piano recital by Costanza Principe, featuring Robert Shumann's Kinderszenen, Op. 15 and Three Fantastic Pieces, Op. 111, two collections that, despite their seemingly fragmentary dimensions, draw a coherent path between memory, imagination and restlessness. The concert is in collaboration with the Vittorio Polli and AnnaMaria Stoppani Foundation and the Victor de Sabata and Aldo Ceccato Music Library. This will be followed on May 30 by La Magnifica Quartet, a string quartet emanating from the La Magnifica Comunità Association. The heart of the program, which will include the performance of Franz Joseph Haydn's famous Quartet Op. 76 No. 2 at the beginning, will be the music of Antonín Dvořák, whose Quartet No. 12 "American" , which originated during the Bohemian composer's stay in the United States, and the Zwei Waltzes Op. 54, which offer a more intimate and lighter look, where the elegance of the waltz is colored with freshness and liveliness. There are two appointments bearing the seal of the Orchestra Filarmonica

BERGAMO JAZZ 2026 Special event for International Jazz Day Thursday, April 30, 2026, 6:30 p.m. Eleonora Strino Trio in Mascheroni Square   After the days in March, crowned with great success by the public and the press, and in anticipation of the two summer concerts at Lazzaretto, with Fatoumata Diawara on July 2 and Dee Dee Bridgewater on July 18, Bergamo Jazz joins theInternational Jazz Day sponsored byUNESCO again this year. In fact, on Thursday, April 30, at 6:30 p.m., in Piazza Mascheroni, one of the symbolic places of Città Alta, a special free event is scheduled featuring the tried-and-true trio of one of the brightest new talents in jazz not only from Italy, guitarist Eleonora Strino, a soloist capable of reinventing the six-string with fresh ideas. At her side will be double bassist Giulio Corini and drummer Zeno De Rossi, both experienced musicians capable of assisting the leader to the fullest in her sonic evolutions. Born in Naples, in whose conservatory she studied, Eleonora Strino began her professional career playing in composer Roberto De Simone's orchestra. Her meeting with double bassist Greg Cohen, former collaborator of Tom Waits and John Zorn, was instrumental in her rise in the jazz world. This first international partnership was followed by others, with Wayne Escofferey, Ulf Walkenius, Seamous Blake, Joey Baron, Peter Bernstein, Jesse Davis and many others. In November 2021 Eleonora Strino recorded the album I Got Strings in Berlin with Greg Cohen and Joey Baron themselves. In July 2022 she was called by guitarist Martin Tayler to take part in "The Great Guitarists" tour, a project launched in 1973 and which over the years has featured the greatest guitarists in jazz history, from Barney Kessell to Keny Burrell. Also in 2022 he took part in "Women and Music" with Ornella Vanoni, the recently deceased artist's last tour. In 2025 her latest work, Matilde, was released with Claudio Vignali on piano, Giulio Corini on double bass and Zeno De Rossi on drums. In recent months he has played at Ronnie Scott's in London, a historic jazz club in the British capital, and held his first tour in the United States. Eleonora Strino's style is rooted in the finest modern school of jazz guitar, from Jim Hall to Barney Kessel, and is nourished by a personal communicative vein that becomes palpable and engaging in concerts.

Operetta Season 2026 At the White Horse with the Elena D'Angelo Operette Company Sunday, April 26 at the Donizetti Theater The Operette Season 2026 of the Donizetti Theater Foundation is drawing to a close: in fact, the third and last of the titles on the bill is scheduled for Sunday, April 26 (3:30 p.m.) at the city's main theater, Al Cavallino Bianco, among the most famous operettas ever. Bringing it to the stage will be the Compagnia d'Operette Elena D'Angelo, directed and choreographed by Serge Manguette. An operetta in three acts written in 1896 by Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz, with a libretto by Hans Muller, Erik Charell and Robert Gilbert, Al Cavallino Bianco is set in the pleasant village of St. Wolfango, in the Salzkammergut, where the beautiful hostess who owns the hotel of the same name gathers, as she does every summer, her guests. Misunderstandings, work and love disruptions will characterize the hotel's summer season until the arrival of the Archduke during hunting season brings calm and serenity back. The first performance took place in Berlin on November 8, 1930. A year later, at the Teatro Lirico in Milan, the curtain was raised, for the first time in Italy, on what was called the "show of the year." The sumptuous staging proposed by the Schwartz brothers, the music full of grace, brio and agreeableness, and the undeniable sunny mountain setting decreed the success of the show, and the audience, shouting "Bravi! Bravi!", seemed never to want to leave the hall and return home to the foggy Milanese night. But we are now in the 1930s, and Al Cavallino Bianco represents the watershed between operetta proper and musical comedy, and can be considered one of the last fireworks of "little opera," one of the most enthusiastic of the century. De Al Cavallino Bianco are worth mentioning the two important RAI editions: the first in 1954 with Nuto Navarrini, Edda Vincenzi, Anna Campori and Elvio Calderoni, directed by Mario Landi; and the one in 1974 with the likes of Gianrico Tedeschi, Paolo Poli, Angela Luce, Mita Medici, Maurizio Micheli, Gianni Nazzaro and Tony Renis, directed by Vito Molinari and choreographed by Gino Landi. Compagnia d'Operette Elena D'Angelo's edition takes into account both the characteristics of operetta and television versions, winking at musical comedy and musicals, resulting in a choral show full of color, vivacity and lightness.

BERGAMO JAZZ SUMMER 2026 @LAZZARETTO Donizetti Theatre Foundation/Bergamo Jazz e Bergamo Association of the Friends of the International Piano Festival present two extraordinary concerts at Lazzaretto in collaboration with the City of Bergamo with the support of A2A and BCC Oglio e Serio Thursday, July 2, 2026 Fatoumata Diawara Saturday, July 18, 2026 Dee Dee Bridgewater Fatoumata Diawara, Thursday, July 2, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Saturday, July 18, two great women, two great voices: Bergamo Jazz returns to the Lazzaretto in the name of female musicianship that carries strong messages that are more relevant and necessary today than ever before. Organized by Fondazione Teatro Donizetti with theBergamo Association of Friends of the International Piano Festival, with support from BCC Oglio e Serio and, for Dee Dee Bridgewater's concert, A2A, the two events are among the summer events promoted at Lazzaretto by the Bergamo City CouncilCulture Department . Fatoumata Diawara is among the most intense, powerful and visionary voices in today's African and international world music scene. A native of Mali, she is a multifaceted artist, singer, musician, composer, actress and dancer: an overwhelming performer, she recounts Africa in its wounds and rebirths and transforms each concert into an engaging collective experience. In Bergamo Fatoumata Diawara will present her new album Massa, due out in June, assisted by her band with Jurandir Da Silva Santana on guitar, Fernando Javier Tejero on keyboards, Velez Juan Finger on electric bass and William Ombe Monkama on drums. Dee Dee Bridgewater, whose previous concerts under the banners of Bergamo Jazz date back to 1996 and 2005, has held the title of jazz singing queen for decades. Her project "We Exist!", which fields three talented instrumentalists of different nationalities - Carmen Staaf on piano, Rosa Brunello on electric bass and double bass, and Julie Saury on drums - launches a battle cry through songs that are not mere melodies with committed lyrics, but true manifestos in music, repositories of messages understandable to all thanks to the magnetic personality of a legend not only of jazz. Proceeds from ticket sales of the U.S. vocalist's concert will be donated to Fondazione Banco dell'Energia, the philanthropic organization sponsored by A2A and its Foundations AEM, ASM and LGH, which supports people in economically and socially vulnerable situations. Tickets on sale, at Biglietteria del Teatro Donizetti and online at Vivaticket, from Friday, April 17, On the previous days, April 14 to 16, subscribers to Bergamo Jazz and the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo will be able to avail themselves of the right of first refusal. Prices: 30 to 40 euros. Concerts start at 9:30 pm. For Sergio Gandi, Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Culture of the City of Bergamo, "it is an honor to once again have the opportunity to host artists of international value within Lazzaretto Estate. This is made possible by virtue of the collaboration with Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, which of the Bergamo Jazz festival is the soul and driving force, and with the Bergamo Association of

Lighting and Phonics Courses. Selections kick off   The Lighting and Phonics Courses promoted by the Donizetti Theater Foundation are back: included in the project Il Cantiere del Teatro of the Prose Season and Altri Percorsi, the courses, the call for which is available on the Foundation's website, are aimed at young people aged 17 or older (also yet to be completed, as long as it is by the end of 2026). To participate, applicants should send their curriculum vitae containing any previous experience and studies they have done, as well as a motivational letter, by filling out the appropriate form included in the call for applications no later than noon on Tuesday, May 5. Following selection on the basis of the submitted documents and letters, the outcome of the call for applications will be announced on Tuesday, May 12. The courses do not involve the payment of registration fees and will begin on Monday, June 8. Both courses, at the end of which a certificate of attendance will be issued, will provide theoretical elements of the basic criteria, methodology, and terminology, followed by practical tests with the chief electrician and chief sound engineer of the Donizetti Theater. There will be a common introductory meeting for both courses; afterwards, each course will take place over four intensive days where the theoretical and practical foundations of the disciplines will be laid. Participants in the lighting engineering course will also have the opportunity for a hands-on experience at Claypaky, an international leader in professional lighting systems, during which they will learn about the history of lighting engineering, the company's products and experience their use during a dedicated technical session. Students in the phonics course, on the other hand, are scheduled to attend an in-depth meeting, "The Hidden Jobs of Sound Engineers, Orchestral Microphones and the Future of Phonics," by musician, composer and mix engineer Francesco Bonalume, and a lecture/workshop, titled "Beyond the Screen - Sound Narration Workshop," scheduled at Triangolo Lab, a recording and music production studio. Both courses will conclude with the experience of recording a live band on the stage of the Donizetti Theater. For Maria Grazia Panigada, Artistic Director of the Prose Season and Other Paths of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation, "The courses we promote as part of Il Cantiere del Teatro constitute a very important part of our activities, because we feel it is our duty to give young people the opportunity to learn about the professions of the theater and to be able to approach this world and then in the future be able to be part of it. Personally, I am grateful to all those who make this project possible by putting their professionalism on the line and showing educational concern."   For more information: email: info@fondazioneteatrodonizetti.org

"WE ARE STORM": THE NEW EDITION OF DONIZETTI SUMMER CAMP Starting April 7 at 12 noon, registration opens for Donizetti Summer Camp 2026, the weekly summer center at the Donizetti Theater for children and teens aged 8 to 13: four weeks, from June 15 to July 10, dedicated to three operas by Gaetano Donizetti and Rossini's Cenerentola Details and registration form: teatrodonizetti.it/en/donizetti-summer-camp   It is already time to think about summer with the Donizetti Summer Camp 2026, the long-awaited summer center of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation that returns for a new edition under the theme We are storm. Starting next April 7 at 12 noon, while places last, registration is open for the four weeks scheduled from June 15 to July 10 at the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo. Thanks to the Donizetti Summer Camp 2026 children and teens between the ages of 8 and 13 will be able to experience the spaces of the Donizetti Theater for a week, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (with the possibility of early at 8 a.m. and late at 5:30 p.m.). This is a unique opportunity to discover the works of Gaetano Donizetti and other composers, immersed in the wonder of Bergamo's Theater. The title of this edition, WE ARE STORM, reflects the courageous and collective spirit that animates the project: four weeks, four operas, four adventures to live together, with the courage to stage the reduction of an opera in a single week. An educational and playful experience that makes Donizetti's theater, music and life a tool for growth, expression and self-discovery. During each week of the Donizetti Summer Camp, the young participants will be able to discover the rehearsal room, the dressing rooms, the set design workshop and take the stage of the Donizetti Theater as true protagonists: in fact, every Friday at 5 p.m. there will be the final recital open to families, a choral performance in which the whole group is involved and every scenic element will have been created by the children during the dedicated sessions. The works and related weeks of the Donizetti Summer Camp 2026 will be structured according to the following schedule: from June 15 to 19, we will play with The theatrical conveniences and inconveniences by Gaetano Donizetti. What happens before the debut of a performance when all the people involved in the staging are agitated, anxious, worried about giving their best? According to this comic opera buffa by Donizetti, a series of comic patatracas happen, in a mad game of the parts, between fragility and delusions of protagonism. Then, from June 22 to 26 , the opera will be. The Furious in the Island of St. Domingo: a semi-serious reinterpretation of Donizetti's melodrama, centered on the fear of diversity. A whirlwind of misunderstandings and misunderstandings will transform the staging into a tragicomic play, full of surprises and reflections on the relationship with the other. The Daughter of the Regiment will be, instead, the Donizetti title starring the week of June

Prose Season 2025-2026 Long journey into the night with Gabriele Lavia and Federica Di Martino April 11 to 19 at the Donizetti Theatre After a plunge into commedia dell'arte with Harlequin Dumb for Fright by the Stivalaccio Teatro company, the Donizetti Theater Foundation's Prose Season 2025-2026 opens a window on the best American theater in its variety of proposals, hosting in the city's main theater from Saturday, April 11 to Sunday, April 19, Long Journey to Night., a masterpiece by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Bringing it to the stage will be one of the pillars of Italian theater, Gabriele Lavia, who also signs the direction, and Federica di Martino, assisted on stage by Jacopo Venturiero, Ian Gualdani and Beatrice Ceccherini. A meeting around the show with Gabriele Lavia and company is scheduled for Thursday, April 16, 2026, at the Music Room of the Donizetti Theater at 6 p.m. Coordinated by Maria Grazia Panigada, Artistic Director of the Prose Season and Other Paths. Long Journey to Night is considered-along with Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Tennessee Wiliams' A Streetcar Named Desire-to be one of the greatest masterpieces of 20th-century American theater. Written by Eugene O'Neill between 1941 and 1942, it was first performed in Stockholm in 1956 and won the Pulitzer Prize the following year after the author's death. Sidney Lumet directed its first film adaptation in 1962, starring Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson. Set in 1912, the powerful and poignant drama recounts a day in the life of the Tyrone family, amid conflict, addiction and painful secrets. Gabriele Lavia and Federica Di Martino bring to the stage this work-confession, "a backward journey" through O'Neill's life, a pitiless precipice into the bitterness of failure without redemption. Gabriele Lavia himself writes in the director's notes, "The prison-house of the "bad family" that O'Neill tells us about is, after all, his own home. And therein lies the winding path of a possible mise-en-scene-travel of this truly bitter work, written by O'Neill now close to death to take a "backward journey" through his life. An unapologetic journey inside the bitterness of failure without redemption. Men's lives are made up of tenderness and violence. Of Love and contempt. Understanding and rejection. Of family and its ruin."

A WORLD PREMIERE, A RARITY AND A BRILLIANT THEATRICAL VIS FOR THE 12TH EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL DEDICATED TO THE BERGAMASQUE COMPOSER At the Donizetti Theater The Exile from Rome and Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali and at the Teatro Sociale Alahor in Granata presented in the new critical edition of the autograph score found in Palermo in 2023 On the podium Antonino Fogliani, Chiara Cattani and Alberto Zanardi; Directed by Katharina Thoma, Benedetto Sicca and Silvia Paoli. In the principal roles Lidia Fridman, Sergey Romanovsky, Luca Pisaroni, Grisha Martirosyan, Dave Monaco, Mira Alkhovik, Laura Verrecchia and Paolo Bordogna The 2026 edition of the Donizetti Opera is dedicated to the memory of Gianandrea Gavazzeni, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death, after whom a Gala at the Donizetti Theater and a documentary exhibition spread throughout the city will be named Completing the program are three Under 30 Previews, the rich Donizetti OFF schedule and the Opera Family proposals Bergamo, November 13 to 29, 2026 Tickets on sale from March 25   A program entirely focused on Donizetti rarities and little-performed titles, in addition to the rich Donizetti Off schedule with the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the death of Bergamo conductor Gianandrea Gavazzeni at its center: this is the 12th edition of Donizetti Opera, the second with Riccardo Frizza in the dual role of artistic and musical director. The international festival dedicated to the famous composer from Bergamo, organized by the Donizetti Theater Foundation of Bergamo chaired by Giorgio Berta with the general direction of Massimo Boffelli, with the support of the City of Bergamo, will animate the theaters of the City of Gaetano Donizetti from November 13 to 29, 2026, the day of the dies natalis Donizetti. The Donizetti Opera is made possible thanks to the support of Allianz ( Main Partner of the Donizetti Theater Foundation), Intesa Sanpaolo, SIAD, ATB Mobility, A2A, Sacbo, Uniacque, Fondazione Cariplo, and to a growing number of partner companies and realities adhering to the Donizetti Ambassadors project that support the festival through Art Bonus. "The Donizetti Opera 2026 - declares. Riccardo Frizza - carries with it a deep meaning and at the same time an open look at the world. We wanted to dedicate this edition of the festival to the memory of Gianandrea Gavazzeni, on the 30th anniversary of his death: a fitting tribute to a figure who indelibly marked the musical history of Bergamo and the entire international opera scene. It was Gavazzeni, with his extraordinary artistic vision and intellectual rigor, who gave decisive impetus to what we now call the "Donizetti Renaissance," restoring dignity and centrality to a composer that history had long neglected. Without him, this festival would probably not exist. This dedication is accompanied by a billboard of high-profile international: artists from all over the world will bring different voices and sensibilities to our stages, confirming Donizetti Opera's vocation to be a reference point for bel canto globally. Many debuts at the festival: from