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On Saturday, June 14 (5:00 PM), the series The Center of Music, organized by the Donizetti Theater Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Social Policies of the Municipality of Bergamo, continues with The Diary of Adam and Eve, a concert-show based on Mark Twain's text adapted by Silvia Rossetti. On stage, the brilliant and contrasting voices of the two biblical characters, interpreted respectively by Marco Montanari and Rendy Anoh. The original music by Danilo Comitini, performed by the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Jacopo Rivani, completes this hilarious and surprisingly contemporary tale. A poetic and amusing journey through differences, misunderstandings, and irresistible attractions to tell the oldest story: the birth of love between two diametrically opposed beings. Pianist and composer, Danilo Comitini was born in England in 1986. In Italy, he first studied piano and then composition at the G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. He then began his studies at the “National Academy of Santa Cecilia, in Ivan Fedele's class, where he graduated with honors. After completing the Advanced Training course at the Academy in Rome, he attended the Master's Degree in composition held by professors Klaus Lang, Marco Stroppa, George Benjamin, Alberto Posadas, and Unsuk Chin at the Milan Conservatory.” His music has received important recognition and has been awarded by some of the most influential personalities in the compositional landscape such as Michele Dall'Ongaro, Silvia Colasanti, Beat Furrer, Frédéric Durieux, Bruno Mantovani, Alessandro Solbiati, Daniele Zanettovich, Claudio Ambrosini. His compositional activity led him to win several international competitions, including the International Competition "2 agosto" with the piece 'Resa al labirinto', performed by the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and broadcast live on television and radio by RAI. In the three-year period 2017-2020, he was composer in residence for Ente Concerti di Pesaro, for which two orchestral pieces and one chamber piece were written. From 2021 to 2024, he was composer in residence for Orchestra Corelli in Ravenna. His latest works have been commissioned by organizations such as Ravenna Festival, Cantiere d'Arte Internazionale di Montepulciano, Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, Orchestra Sinfonica Rossini, Orchestra Corelli. The next appointment with The Center of Music will feature, on June 21, the Gruppo Fiati Musica Aperta with the show Così fan tutte (or maybe not?), a semi-serious journey through the loves of melodrama conducted by actor Enrico Beruschi.

On the evening of June 21, the audience of Teatro Donizetti will transform into a stage to welcome the public engaged in the choral performance of a pop song with Donizettian echoes It will also be possible to visit Teatro Donizetti for free and taste the new cocktail Furioso Gaetano created by Tassino Eventi dedicated to the Donizetti festival Only for the entire day of the Music Festival, on the occasion of the opening of ticket sales for Donizetti Opera 2025, it will be possible to purchase every order of festival seats at a special price, with a greater reduction for those who participate in the experience Donizetti Opera feat. HardCoro Bergamo, Teatro Donizetti, Saturday, June 21, 2025   A unique choral experience in the grand hall, free guided tours of Teatro Donizetti, the new cocktail dedicated to Donizetti Opera, and special promotions to secure tickets for the 2025 festival right away: these are all the initiatives that the Teatro Donizetti Foundation is implementing to celebrate the upcoming Music Festival on June 21, opening the theater's doors to the city and involving everyone in a great novelty for Bergamo. It starts in the evening at 7:00 PM with Let Me Introduce You to Donizetti, the guided tour to discover the Theater, curated by Clelia Epis. The history of the monument, curiosities, masterpieces of the historic rooms, and the wonder of the theater hall will be revealed to the public, who can book for free their visit, choosing between two shifts, the first at 7:00 PM and the second at 7:45 PM, through the Eventbrite platform: www.eventbrite.it/e/ti-presento-il-donizetti-tickets-1402463137999?aff=oddtdtcreator From 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM the Bar of the Gavazzeni Foyer will be open and you can taste for the first time Furioso Gaetano, the new non-alcoholic cocktail dedicated to Donizetti Opera 2025, created by Tassino Eventi: the blend includes non-alcoholic bitter, red conviv, and pink grapefruit soda, which will give an intense and fragrant taste, with a coloration inspired by the velvets of the curtain and the theater. But the great anticipation is for the “arrival in Bergamo, in the name of Donizetti, of one of the most surprising realities of recent years, which only needs a place, a date, a pop song, and many people who want to sing to create a” truly unique experience. We're talking about HardCoro, a pop-up format part of a worldwide movement of pub choirs that is becoming popular in Milan and brings together music lovers, making them “experience being part of a choir and protagonists of the evening. Led by musician Michele Acocella, the amateur and extemporaneous choir learns the structure of a song in a few steps, harmonizes the voices, and, within” a couple of “hours, performs the” entire song in multiple voices with extreme satisfaction and enjoyment for the participants. And in the following days, the video, shot by filmmaker Alvise Tedesco, allows reliving the performance on social media. At Teatro Donizetti on June 21, the bar will be raised: the public will

10 events that add to the 14 titles of the Prose Season and Other Paths, already presented in recent weeks: the 2025-2026 Theater Season of the Donizetti Theater Foundation is confirmed to be rich and multifaceted, covering a time span that “overall goes from December 2025 to May 2026. The OperaConcerts section, Family Opera, the Operetta Season, and the year-end Musical complete a” varied offer, involving the main theatrical spaces of the city, the Donizetti Theater and the Teatro Sociale. "With its substantial Theater Season, the Donizetti Theater Foundation occupies a prominent position in the framework of ‘our city's cultural offer’, comments Sergio Gandi, Councilor for Culture of the City of Bergamo, ‘Spoken theater, music in its many forms, events related to the Christmas holidays, end of the year and new year: all this, together with other festivals and international events such as Donizetti Opera and Bergamo Jazz, contributes to a proactive vitality, which has the merit of covering a wide time span throughout the year, shared by the’ city administration". For Giorgio Berta, President of the Donizetti Theater Foundation, “The Theater Season reflects the variety and breadth of interests and orientations that we pursue with constant commitment. A commitment comforted by unequivocal positive results, which are the fruit of valuable teamwork, to which is added the fundamental support of the City of Bergamo and numerous other public and private entities. To all of them goes the most heartfelt thanks, mine personally and of the entire Board of Directors of the Foundation”. "The Theater Season is a now widely tested and recognized format, within which different proposals coexist in perfect harmony, from Prose in its most classic sense to the branches of experimental theater embodied by Other Paths, from concert music to ‘opera, from’ operetta to musical", adds Massimo Boffelli, General Director of the Donizetti Theater Foundation, "The Theater Season is also the result of synergies with important regional institutional and associative realities. My thoughts go first of all to OperaLombardia, whose circuit we have always been part of and of which we will host a new production. And then to the I Piccoli Musici Choir, which is about to reach an important milestone, to ‘the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra and the’ Ensemble Locatelli, all now well-established partners of our Foundation". OperaConcerts OperaConcerts is the Section of the Theater Season that, Thanks to Specific Projects and Repertoires, Spans Different Musical Genres, Connecting Them “one to” another, Fostering Collaboration with Important Institutional and Associative Entities in the Lombardy Region. Transversality already distinguishes the first event on Saturday, December 13, with the emblematic title Disney In Concert: the voice of Giorgia Semeraro, accompanied by seven musicians from the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra, will reproduce the Disney magic in a musical key, which for over a century has made both adults and children dream with its now classic film creations and unforgettable melodies, revised and arranged for the occasion by Domenico Clapasson. On Saturday, December 20, the Ensemble Locatelli directed by Thomas Chigioni will

Bach: from organ to bow is the title of the concert that on Saturday, June 7 (at 5:00 PM) the Ensemble Locatelli will hold in the Ridotto Gavazzeni of the Teatro Donizetti, as the second event of The Center of Music, a series organized by the Teatro Donizetti Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Social Policies of the Municipality of Bergamo. Specialized in Baroque repertoire, the Ensemble Locatelli will perform pieces originally conceived by Bach for organ, specifically rearranged by its own director, Thomas Chigioni. The concept of the program is to transfer some of Bach's greatest organ music pages to “the other great expressive medium available to the German composer: the” string “orchestra. In fact, Bach can be considered a”“pure”“composer, whose music transcends the limits of the instrument for which it was conceived and can well be adapted and transcribed for other instruments. The” most striking example in this sense is the collection on which the composer focused his energies in the last days of his life: “The”“Art of Fugue”. Composed without indicating the instruments intended for “performance, this collection of counterpoints demonstrates how for Bach music was absolute, and how the instrument was only the means to an ultimate end, the Divine. A passionate scholar of works by composers from the Bel Paese, Bach adapted numerous Italian concertos for”“organ: Bach's great compositional expertise and care in voice management allow for the opposite journey and the creation of new versions for string” orchestra with original arrangements.   The next event of The Center of Music will feature, on June 14, the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra with the show The Diary of Adam and Eve.

The final performance of the 2024-2025 workshop of Project Young, one of the main educational initiatives linked to the Prose Season and Other Paths of the Teatro Donizetti Foundation, is titled If We Were Shadows. The show, which will involve the young participants of the training course for young actors under the direction of Fabio Comana, will take place on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8 in the spaces of the Teatro Sociale at the following times: Saturday, June 7 at 4:00 PM, 6:00 PM, 8:00 PM; Sunday, June 8 - 10:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 3:00 PM, 5:00 PM. If We Were Shadows is an itinerant performance, a walk through the corridors, rooms, and other usually hidden corners of the Teatro Sociale inspired by the ancient history of the place and the desire to engage in creating a sort of theatrical collage, representing brief original fragments that refer to characters from different eras and situations. It all stems from a suggestion: when the audience leaves the theater, when even the “last staff member closes the door behind them and the hall plunges into” darkness, someone inside the theater begins to breathe. These are the characters from the many stories that theater has seen performed coming to life. Freed from the constraints of the stage, but imprisoned in the space and time that the authors have decided for them, these characters are eager to meet and express themselves freely, sometimes to rebel. The show requires reaching some spaces via stairs. The performance, reserved for small groups of spectators at a time, aims to offer the young participants of Project Young, 15 individuals between 21 and 28 years old selected from 30 candidates, the opportunity to put into practice the training course that began last October. During this course, they were able to meet various stage professionals, guests of the Prose Season and Other Paths, as well as young newly-professional ex-Young participants. Actors involved: Francesco Baldin, Sofia Bolchi, Martina Citroni, Martina Di Caro, Leila Gervasoni, Beatrice Gotti, Carolina Grossi, Clara Marchesi, Matteo Masolini, Elisa Mercurio, Giulia Pizzaballa, Marta Salvi, Letizia Sanchioni, Valeria Spertini, Daniela Tasca. Maria Graia Panigada, Artistic Director of the Prose Season and Other Paths, emphasizes the educational value of the "initiative she conceived: ‘The young people of Project Young inhabit the rehearsal room of the Teatro Donizetti guided by Fabio Comana. Their journey is one of searching for a true theater, in which to let themselves be represented and, for some of them, in which to seek their life's profession. Following their artistic and human journey is for me a source of encouragement for everything I accomplish within’ the Teatro Donizetti Foundation: these young people give me a sense of future, of possibility, of vitality for our theater". "Last year, with the intense experience lived by the students of Project Young under the inspiration of a master like Cesar Brie, a three-year journey concluded during which I had the opportunity to see the technical preparation and motivation of

With the usual autumn and winter programming recently concluded, the Donizetti Theatre Foundation is not stopping and, already looking ahead to the next season, is searching for front-of-house staff for the shows and events that will be held at the Donizetti Theatre and the Teatro Sociale from September 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. For this purpose, a selection procedure has been activated, through the collection of expressions of interest, by curriculum and individual interview, to form a ranking from which the Foundation will draw the necessary personnel to cover the service. The selected staff will be assigned to welcoming and assisting the public, as described in the job posting itself. The expression of interest should be submitted by sending the appropriate request, which can be downloaded from the Transparent Administration area of the website www.teatrodonizetti.it, by June 18 to the following email address: selezionemaschere@fondazioneteatrodonizetti.org The evaluation of candidates will be carried out through analysis of the curriculum vitae and individual interview. To learn about the requirements and for more information, please carefully read the announcement published at the link: https://trasparenza.teatrodonizetti.it/documentazione/bandi-aperti/

The opera will be staged in Bergamo “as part of the 2026 Donizetti festival” and will be a participatory performance aimed at younger audiences The deadline for submitting applications is July 21, 2025, and the winner will receive a fee of three thousand euros in addition to a publishing contract with Casa Ricordi The call is open to librettists Under 35 and is available at this link: www.donizettiopera.org/#librettista   A new libretto for a new opera aimed at younger audiences: this is the next challenge of the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, which begins with the publication of a call to select a librettist Under 35, who will be entrusted with writing the text, in Italian, for a new opera for young audiences between 8 and 14 years old. This is a concrete opportunity for young Italian and European theater writers who will be able to hear their verses sung in autumn 2026 as part of Donizetti Opera, the international festival dedicated to the famous Bergamo composer. The call for applications with mandatory attachments is already online in the Open Calls section of the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti website, accessible via the link: www.donizettiopera.org/#librettista The call is open to all those who, as of January 1, 2025, have not yet turned 35 and is part of a project that combines dramaturgical research, education in listening, and concrete attention to emerging creativity. The opera will be dedicated to brothers Gaetano and Giuseppe Donizetti, based on a subject by Luca Baccolini, journalist, music critic, and author, with music composed by Marco Taralli. The performance will include moments of active participation from the audience in the hall, with guided choral interventions. The chosen author for writing the libretto will receive a gross fee of 3,000.00 euros and will work closely with the creative team of Donizetti Opera, in addition to signing a publishing contract with the prestigious Casa Ricordi. To participate in the selection, candidates are invited to create the dramaturgical transposition and detailed synopsis with scene divisions of two famous stories from 20th-century Italian literature: Il colombre by Dino Buzzati and Il treno ha fischiato by Luigi Pirandello, for which they will also write the libretto for at least two scenes of their choice, using prose or verse writing. Applications must be submitted no later than July 21, 2025, exclusively through the online form attached to the call. The ranking will be published on September 15, and the delivery of the final version of the libretto is scheduled for December 31, 2025. With this initiative – strongly supported by the artistic and musical director of Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizza – the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti reaffirms its commitment to the development of contemporary operatic repertoire aimed at young audiences, fostering the emergence of a new generation of authors capable of engaging with sung words and the great themes of modernity. At the same time, it relaunches a vision of opera as a living space, capable of educating, engaging, and renewing itself, expanding the promotion

Saturday, May 31 (5:00 PM), in the Ridotto Gavazzeni of Teatro Donizetti, marks the beginning of the fourth edition of Il Centro della Musica, a series organized by the Teatro Donizetti Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Social Policies of the Municipality of Bergamo. There will be a total of six concerts, always scheduled on Saturday afternoons until July 7, which represent a precious opportunity to enter the city's main theater, and the space named after a great conductor, on an unusual day and time. An original way to experience the city center, combining the magic of music with being together in the theater. It begins with a journey into the ever-evocative world of Argentine tango and with the Ensemble of the Italian Philharmonic Orchestra, formed for the occasion by Andrea Coruzzi, bandoneon and accordion, Cesare Carretta, violin, and Nicola Ziliani, double bass. Tango is a musical genre that originated in the early 1900s; the instrument that most characterizes it, invented in the 19th century by the German Henrich Band and from which it took its name, is the bandoneon. This instrument was used to replace the harmonium in religious functions and, thanks to its small size, traveled on the ships of European migrants seeking economic fortune in Argentina. But it is in the estuary of the Mar del Plata, between Buenos Aires and Montevideo, that tango originated, in an incredible and unique cultural blend between America, Europe, and Africa. It had enormous commercial success and, through the growing production of 78 rpm records, spread to Europe and Italy, enriching the vast tradition of Italian song. What then happened thanks to the great Astor Piazzolla was a real revolution that not by chance took the name of nuevo tango. A series of famous compositions by Astor Piazzolla - including Adios Nonino, Inverno Porteño and Oblivion - will be at the center of the concert by the “Ensemble of the” Italian Philharmonic Orchestra, along with pieces by Carlos Gardel, the quintessential voice of tango, and the Frenchman Richard Galliano, indicated by many as the most authoritative heir of the Argentine master himself. The next appointment with Il Centro della Musica will feature, on June 7, the Ensemble Locatelli directed by Thomas Chigioni and the eternal music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Over 5,000 students from 30 schools in Bergamo and its province involved in watching performances and participating in individual projects: this is the first salient figure of the educational projects linked to the 2024/2025 Prose Season and Other Paths of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation. This figure confirms young people's interest in theatrical expression in general and in the specific themes addressed by the titles in the program. During the 2024/2025 Prose Season and Other Paths, numerous educational courses were offered to secondary schools, alongside sound and lighting courses, which will take place in June, and the Young Project for aspiring young actors, which will culminate in an itinerant performance scheduled for June 7 and 8 in the spaces of the Teatro Sociale. Massimo Boffelli, General Director of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation, adds: "The organization of the Foundation's activities is very complex and articulated and is not limited to just offering performances but, thanks to a series of skills and professionals we can rely on, also includes educational initiatives within all our programs, such as the Prose Season and Other Paths, the Donizetti Opera festival and Bergamo Jazz; all activities that attract significant participation from young people and schools in Bergamo and its province. Young people, now more than ever, need beauty." For Maria Grazia Panigada, Artistic Director of the Prose Season and Other Paths, "attention to young people, both as an audience and as direct protagonists, represents an aspect of absolute importance in" the activity of the Donizetti Theatre Foundation and starts from the involvement of active realities in "associations: ‘What does’ a social garden or a food pantry have to do with a prose season? Why talk about hikikomori or civil responsibility in the theater? Yet these are among the themes we have addressed in our work with students this" year. We met them in the theater spaces, in classrooms, but also by going out into the territory to explore some representative places where active citizenship can be cultivated," she says. ""I am convinced of the value of this osmosis between the internal space of the theater and the surrounding territory: I would like this aspect to increasingly become a key to interpreting our theater-making. I am also convinced that education is the heart of a" cultural institution like the Donizetti Theatre Foundation and, in this sense, it is our duty - in addition to "bringing young people closer to theatrical viewing, giving them critical tools to understand and evaluate it - to make them understand how" scenic action can be a space and time to reflect on oneself, on one's social relationship, but also on the city, on the world in which we live." ""The consequence of this work is finding oneself in the theater, before the performance, with a different attention, with a new care for listening and then, at the end, feeling the desire to confront, exchange opinions and perhaps take home new perspectives. I am therefore grateful to those who collaborate with me in the

With the program for the next Prose Season and Other Paths already announced in recent days, it's time to take stock of the season that concluded last Sunday with the poetic acrobatics of the Finzi Pasca Company and their 'Titizé', applauded by nearly 8,000 spectators. A show that literally enchanted audiences of all ages, as Artistic Director Maria Grazia Panigada noted in a post on her Facebook page: "One can describe the wind or the lapping of water, but it's much more difficult to express the emotion they evoke in us, the taste of life they leave us with, the imaginings they provoke. The Finzi Pasca Company essentially does this, and their show 'Titizé' takes us to that other side, where reality is not depicted but rather the emotions that truth and dreams, intertwining at dawn, gift us. And so this week has been one of wide-eyed wonder, smiles transformed into laughter, applause mixed with suspended sighs, with the serenity of play where everything can change without ever replacing the dream." Overall, the recently concluded Prose Season recorded a total of 52,751 attendees, with 5,770 subscriptions, an 18% increase compared to the previous season. The most-watched show was 'La coscienza di Zeno' with Alessandro Haber, with 9,265 attendees, including an additional performance for students, closely followed by 'Titizé'. "Once again, we can only express great satisfaction," comments Massimo Boffelli, General Director of the Teatro Donizetti Foundation, "The Prose Season is one of our most qualified and qualifying offerings, as demonstrated by the attention and affection of the audience. The increase from seven to eight performances has allowed us to accommodate new requests, and we can state, without fear of contradiction, that this is a number of performances that few other theaters at a national level can boast today, even in cities larger than Bergamo. And these results are achieved only thanks to a team of the highest professional level, to whom we extend our most heartfelt thanks." That the Donizetti is one of the most beloved theaters in Italy is evident from the words of the performers themselves in the shows hosted. In this regard, it's enough to report some of the testimonials of esteem expressed by them in the Season's "diary". "There are theaters that manage to contain all the mysterious game that has made your career worth pursuing: the Donizetti, for me, from my beginnings until today, is one of them," writes Franco Branciaroli, who shared applause with Umberto Orsini for 'I ragazzi irresistibili', the opening title of the Season. "It was an honor and a great joy to return here for the first time after the magnificent renovation. It was particularly moving to bring Eduardo's words to a theater so virtuous and an example for all of Italy," reads the testimony of Fausto Russo Alesi. "The only real problem at the Donizetti is having to leave," adds Silvio Orlando, who, along with his company, brought 'Ciarlatani' to the stage.