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Reruns of Il furioso nell'isola di S. Domingo and Caterina Cornaro continue at Teatro Donizetti, and at Teatro Sociale of the diptych Il campanello and Deux hommes et une femme. For the Donizetti Off review, the appointments A colazione con Gaetano and The Donizetti Brunch return, and the family show Piccolo Signor Rumore debuts.. Double appointment with Opera Stories: the presentation of Alberto Mario Banti's book dedicated to the Beatles in Feltrinelli and the meeting with Valerio Massimo Minale and Paolo Fabbri on Caterina Corner at the Donizetti Theater. After the success of the first weekend, from tomorrow the operas return to the stage: opening will be Il furioso nell'isola di S. Domingo on Friday, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. at the Donizetti Theater; followed by Caterina Cornaro on Saturday, Nov. 22, also at the Donizetti Theater at 8 p.m., and completed with Il campanello and Deux hommes et une femme at the Teatro Sociale on Sunday, Nov. 23 at 3:30 p.m. Donizetti Off, the calendar of meetings, events, presentations and performances for families that enriches the artistic offerings of the Donizetti Opera festival by involving different audiences in the name of Donizetti, also continues. Opening the off programming of the second weekend, on Friday, November 21 at 6 p.m., at Libreria Feltrinelli Bergamo (Via XX Settembre 55), historian Alberto Mario Banti will present his book The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Carocci, 2024). The book tells how the Beatles' album was able to capture the most important fruits of the coeval countercultural communities and at the same time stimulate unexpected creative developments: progressive rock, world music, and experimentation in the recording studio. This is why Sgt. Pepper still deserves to be regarded as one of the absolute pinnacles of 20th-century Western musical culture, just as the works of the great 19th-century composers were able to capture and bring to the stage the issues of the society of the time. Participation is free with reservations at donizettiopera.org. Donizetti Opera's Saturday afternoons are dedicated to families, and on Nov. 22, at 4 p.m. at the Ridotto Gavazzeni of the Donizetti Theater, the musical performance Piccolo Signor Rumore, conceived by Enrico Gabrielli and aimed at children ages 3 and up, will be staged as part of Opera Family. Performed by the ensemble Esecutori di Metallo su Carta with Gabrielli himself on piano, Sebastiano De Gennaro on percussion and noises, and Marcello Corti on brass and narrator, the concert-game tells the story of a curious wad in search of a home; it will be the audience that guides him through drawings, sounds and noises, challenges and riddles. Preceding the performance is a creative workshop at 3 p.m. Tickets (Full €10.00, Under 14 €5.00) are on sale online and at the Donizetti Theater box office. The Opera Stories review doubles this weekend, and at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22 in the Riccardi Room of the Donizetti Theater, there will be a conversation Caterina Corner. Cyprus between Byzantium and Venice between legal

Inaugural performance Prose Season 2025-2026 Pignasecca and Pignaverde with Tullio Solenghi December 6 to 14 at the Donizetti Theatre   The Donizetti Theater Foundation's Prose Season 2025-2026, in memory of Benvenuto Cuminetti on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his death, is on the starting blocks: from Saturday, Dec. 6 to Sunday, Dec. 14, with the exception of Monday, Dec. 8, it will be staged at the city's main theater Pignasecca and Pignaverde, a title that reprises one of the classics of the Genoese comic actor Gilberto Govi with, at the forefront, also in the role of director, Tullio Solenghi, a popular TV and theater face who is also of Genoese descent. The show is based on the original play written by Emerico Valentinetti, adapted into two acts by Solenghi himself and Margherita Rubino, with scenic design by Davide Livermore. Makeup and wig by Bruna Calvanesi taken over by Barbara Petrolati. Set design by Anna Varaldo. On stage, in addition to Tullio Solenghi: Claudia Benzi, Laura Repetto, Matteo Traverso, Stefano Moretti, Roberto Alinghieri, Mauro Pirovano, Stefania Pepe. Production Teatro Sociale di Camogli and Teatro Nazionale di Genova. Duration 1 hour 50 minutes including intermission. Times: evening 8:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 7 and 14 3:30 p.m. Ticket prices: from 15 to 45 euros, reduced from 12 to 36 euros. Pignasecca and Pignaverde is, along with Manezzi per maritare una figlia and Colpi di Timone, one of the most representative shows of the comic art of Gilberto Govi, an actor deeply attached to his city to the point of transposing the texts of his shows into Genoese dialect. His fame, however, thanks to an irresistible comic vis and extraordinary facial expressions, has largely crossed regional and national borders. Long the focus of a rediscovery, the work and figure of Gilberto Govi have in Tullio Solenghi one of the most sincere supporters and popularizers. It is Tullio Solenghi himself who narrates his love for Govi: "The thrilling outcome of Manezzi per maritare una figlia, which in the span of 80 performances entertained and moved an audience of at least 50,000 spectators, could only prelude a new adventure with the other great classic of Gilberto Govi's masterful repertoire, Pignasecca e Pignaverde. I leave the shoes of the submissive "Steva" to step into those of the more sullen Felice Pastorino with unchanged enthusiasm, a mask that, unlike the previous one, hides, among the inevitable cues of great comedy, dark and intriguing human sides to be investigated and represented. This new Govian character represents, in fact, the eternal archetype of the miser, around which revolve characters and situations that go to make up, in the careful observation of reality, that microcosm of Ligurian style that manifests itself in a sort of precious "period photo." It is precisely by browsing through these scenic images that the audience participated in our "Manezzi," in a kind of collective ritual that I want to punctually recreate with this new performance." "In Pignasecca and Pignaverde the mask becomes more authentic,

Inaugural performance Other Pathways 2025-2026 Christmas in the Cupiello House with Luca Saccoia Thursday, December 4 at the Social Theater   The Donizetti Theater Foundation's Season of Theaters begins again, offering numerous events in the vein of drama, music and opera until May. It begins with Altri Percorsi, an open window on the different facets of theatrical expressiveness, whose 2025-2026 edition is symbolically dedicated to Benvenuto Cuminetti, who was the enlightened inventor of the review. The first of seven titles on the bill, scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 4 at 8:30 p.m. at the Social Theater, is Natale in casa Cupiello, Eduardo De Filippo 's classic revived by Luca Saccoia in a special version, cum figuris. In fact, the show sees the actor interacting with seven puppets made by set designer Tiziano Fario, author of the entire scenography, and animated by a group of maneuvers formed ad hoc for the project and coordinated by Irene Vecchia. The direction is by Lello Serao. Lighting by Luigi Biondi and Giuseppe Di Lorenzo. Costumes by Federica Del Gaudio. Original music by Luca Toller. Production Teatri Associati di Napoli/Interno 5 with the support of Fondazione Eduardo De Filippo and Teatro Augusteo. Running time 1 hour 50 minutes including two intermissions. Ticket prices: 20 euros, reduced 16 euros. The show, faithful to Eduardo's text, evokes the events of the Cupiello family, opening a rift within the imagination and memory of every spectator. A dream that comes to life through figure theater in which Luca Saccoia immerses himself by re-emerging as "Tommasino" who, after saying the fateful "yes" to his father, relives and revives that "Christmas" that has been with us for 90 years. Says director Lello Serao in his notes presenting the play, "The project is the brainchild of Luca Saccoia and Vincenzo Ambrosino, which took shape from a meeting with myself and set designer Tiziano Fario. The nativity scene is the horizon within which the whole work moves in both a real and metaphorical sense; the nativity scene is the element Luca Cupiello needs in order to hope for a renewed and conflict-free humanity, but it is also the representation of birth and death, it is the time of transition from the old to the new, it is the mixture of past and present, it is an established iconography and at the same time to be continuously deconstructed. The Nativity scene is remade every year, it is cyclical like the seasons, it can be liked and disliked. It is precisely from this last statement that we started: what has become of that Tommasino, "Nennillo," as his mother calls him, considering him an eternal child? How did he transform after that fateful "yes" on his father's deathbed? We have tried to flesh out these answers by imagining that Tommasino said that "yes" convinced, that from then on, there had to be a change, thinking that it was not just a way of pleasing his dying father, but that it was the beginning of a new path,

The batons will be those of Antonino Fogliani, Chiara Cattani and Alberto Zanardi, while the directors who will sign the stagings will be Katharina Thoma, Benedetto Sicca and Silvia Paoli The festival will run from Nov. 13 to 29, Gaetano Donizetti's birthday Carnets for Donizetti Opera 2026 will be available for purchase during the current festival at the Donizetti Theatre Box Office or bookable online On the eve of the debut of Donizetti Opera 2025, people are already looking ahead, and everything is also ready for the 2026 edition of the international festival dedicated to Bergamo composer Gaetano Donizetti: L'esule di Roma, Alahor in Granata e Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali are the three titles on the bill of the upcoming Donizetti Opera, organized by the Donizetti Theater Foundation of Bergamo, chaired by Giorgio Berta with the general direction of Massimo Boffelli, and supported by the City of Bergamo. "Today we are presenting an edition in which Donizetti rarities are absolute protagonists," says artistic and musical director Riccardo Frizza . Donizetti Opera 2026, in fact, will go to enhance the rediscovery of lesser-visited titles by Donizetti, starting with the performance of the autograph score of Alahor in Granata, found in 2023 at the Palermo Conservatory library. In addition, for the next edition of the festival I have decided to entrust the podium to colleagues who are specialists in the repertoire, focusing my role fully on artistic and musical direction, taking particular care of the realization of new projects that will see the light of day in the coming years." Opening the festival at Bergamo's Donizetti Theater will be the melodrama L'esule di Roma, a title composed in 1828 for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, staged Nov. 13, 21 and 29. The performance will be entrusted to the baton of Antonino Fogliani, a conductor with an international profile who will be on the podium at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in the coming days to perform La fille du régiment, and to German director Katharina Thoma, who has signed productions at the Glyndebourne Festival, the Royal Opera House in London, the theaters in Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig and Malmö and is head of the department of stage art at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg. Both are making their Donizetti Opera debuts. Absolute opportunity for rediscovery is the staging of the title of the "Donizetti 200" project, which includes at the Teatro Sociale in Bergamo (Nov. 14, 22 and 27) a work composed exactly two hundred years earlier by the composer from Bergamo: it is Alahor in Granata, an opera proposed in the new edition edited by Edoardo Cavalli, compiled following the identification of the autograph score at the library of the Conservatorio "A. Scarlatti" in Palermo in 2023. "Gaetano Donizetti spent a long period of work in Palermo, at the Teatro Carolino, from April 1825 to February 1826," says Paolo Fabbri, scientific director of the Centro Studi Donizettiani: "This stay was studied in his time by Palermo musicologist

Concerts in theaters, museums and venues of the City intertwined with cinema and meetings with schools Coinciding with the sale of new subscriptions to the three evenings at the Donizetti Theater and tickets for the two dates at the Teatro Sociale, the Donizetti Theater Foundation presents the full program of the 2025 edition of Bergamo Jazz, a festival organized with the support of the City of Bergamo, MIC-Ministry of Culture, and private sponsors and that for four days, March 20-23, will spread the thousand sounds of jazz throughout the City. Sounds of Joy is the title chosen by Joe Lovano, Artistic Director of Bergamo Jazz since last year, to testify to the great variety and vitality of sounds, rhythms and colors that mark a music that represents one of the cornerstones of contemporary artistic expressiveness. "Sounds of Joy means the celebration of a musical community born among people for people. It is the celebration of jazz from its origins until today: the dance of life, love and spirit unites us as one," Joe Lovano specifies, "The idea of jazz improvisation has taken many paths over the years and resulted in a beautiful art form with many directions and influences. This idea has inspired the most innovative and influential musicians in the music world on a global scale.The multigenerational and multicultural sounds that animate the joy of hearing music will come to us through the passion and expressiveness of all the artists we have invited for the 46th edition of the Bergamo jazz festival." Keeping faith with its own nature, Bergamo Jazz 2025 will also be a Festival with an international scope, a widespread Festival: in addition to the concerts at the Donizetti and in the theater in Città Alta, already announced in recent months, significant events hosted in small theaters, in museums, and in venues transformed for the occasion into cozy jazz clubs are in fact planned. Nourished will be the representation of Italian musicians, including numerous new talents, and considerable will be the space for jazz conjugated to women, with the presence of established singers and instrumentalists. The next edition of Bergamo Jazz therefore promises to be very rich both in content and in the number of its protagonists: more than 80. And a relevant space will also have interweaving with other arts, especially cinema, and popular meetings aimed at the youngest.   Jazz at Donizetti On Friday, March 21, the first of three subscription evenings at the Donizetti Theater, beginning at 8:30 p.m., beloved by Bergamo audiences and those from all over Italy and beyond, will be opened by the duo formed by double bass ace Dave Holland and Lionel Loueke, one of the most innovative guitarists to appear on the jazz scene in recent decades. A thick artistic pair that will serve as "openers" to the Wayne Shorter Legacy, namely pianist Danilo Pérez, double bassist John Patitucci, drummer Brian Blade and, in the role of special guests, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, musicians who certainly do not need much

The list of those admitted to the in-person auditions for the 2025 edition of the Bottega Donizetti, the masterclass workshop for opera singers that the Donizetti Theater Foundation activates every year for young opera singers' voices, has been published. This year more than 150 applications arrived from 31 different countries, and the committee admitted 31 singers to the in-person selections, to be held on Monday, March 31, and Tuesday, April 1, 2025. From them, 6 participants (2 sopranos, 1 mezzo-soprano, 1 tenor, 1 baritone, 1 bass-baritone/baritone) will be chosen to take part in Donizetti Opera 2025 festival productions. The specialization workshop dedicated to Donizetti's repertoire, curated by Giulio Zappa, in the 2025 edition will have Riccardo Frizza, Alessandro Corbelli and Cristiano Sandri among its teachers. Eligible candidates

Sign Up for Ticket Alerts! Fondazione Teatro Donizetti and Bergamo Jazz announce the return to Bergamo, after over 50 years since his previous concert in the city, of Herbie Hancock: the great American pianist will be at the Lazzaretto on Friday, July 18 (9:30 PM), as a guest in one of the three events that Bergamo Jazz will organize next summer together with the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo, as part of the performance series promoted by the Municipality of Bergamo. "We are delighted and proud to be able to deliver such important news: the return to Bergamo of an artist of Herbie Hancock's caliber after so many years is an event of absolute significance," comments Giorgio Berta, president of the Donizetti Theater Foundation, "Herbie Hancock is an international star, as well as an outstanding pianist, and we are very pleased to have the friends of the Brescia and Bergamo Piano Festival at our side on this special occasion in the memory of its founder Filippo Siebaneck." The other two Bergamo Jazz concerts included in the Lazzaretto Estate 2025 program will also be announced soon. Tickets will be available at the Teatro Donizetti Box Office and online on the VivaTicket circuit starting Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM. Subscribers to Bergamo Jazz Festival 2025 and the Piano Festival 2025 will be able to exercise their pre-emption right on reservations during the Bergamo jazz festival, from March 20 to 23, 2025, always from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM by presenting themselves directly at the Box Office. Born in Chicago in 1940, considered one of the greatest jazz pianists on the scene from the 1960s onwards, winner of 14 Grammy Awards, Herbie Hancock is the protagonist of a brilliant career that has gradually led him to engage with different fields and genres. From his successful collaboration with Miles Davis and the historic recordings as a leader for Blue Note (including Takin' Off, Maiden Voyage and Speak Like a Child), his star has also shone in contact with funk, hip hop and the best singer-songwriter music. Notable in this regard are the formation of Head Hunters, a seminal funk-jazz group, the 1980 album Future Shock, which included the global hit "Rockit", and his collaboration with Joni Mitchell. Herbie Hancock performed at the Teatro Donizetti in March 1972: alongside him were, among others, trumpet player Eddie Henderson and drummer Billy Hart, who will be upcoming protagonists of Bergamo Jazz 2025 on March 22 as members of The Cookers. Since 2011, Herbie Hancock has been the patron of UNESCO's International Jazz Day, which Bergamo Jazz has been participating in for several years.

The Prose and Other Paths Season of the Donizetti Theater Foundation continues under the sign of one of the great names of Italian theater, Eduardo De Filippo: in fact, from Saturday, March 8 to Sunday, March 16, the following is staged on the city's main stage The Art of Comedy, with adaptation and direction by Fausto Russo Alesi. The Palermitan actor and director himself, who has already been appreciated several times in Bergamo, will play the role of the capocomico Oreste Campese, the text's main protagonist. Other performers and characters: David Meden (Veronesi, piantone), Sem Bonventre (Palmira, hostess of the tavern), Alex Cendron (His Excellency De Caro, prefect), Paolo Zuccari (Giacomo Franci, his secretary), Filippo Luna (Quinto Bassetti), Gennaro De Sia (Padre Salvati), Imma Villa (Lucia Petrella), Demian Troiano Hackman (Gerolamo Pica), Davide Falbo (Un uomo). The Art of Comedy, an extraordinary and brilliant work by Eduardo De Filippo, is part of "Odd Days," the collection that-from different angles-addresses the difficult issues of everyday life. Incredible is the strength and topicality of the text that brings us in a direct way to confront the mortification and censorship of culture. Written in 1964 - ambiguous and at the same time farcical - it is a little-visited work, seemingly less explosive than the most famous masterpieces; instead, it is a masterful, wide-ranging and extraordinarily imperfect text, as imperfect is the human being in search of his identity, his right to exist, in short, in search of answers to those pressing and necessary questions that cannot wait any longer. The questions, doubts, responsibilities, constraints and weaknesses that Eduardo brings to the table affect us all, and that "Theater," whether it is a theater company, a community or a small world, becomes a resonator of our relationship with power and the need to be heard and, above all, recognized. "Come to the theater Mr. Prefect! - says the head playwright Oreste Campese - In Theater the supreme truth has been and always will be the supreme fiction...": it all starts here. How much can the distance and filter of theater, through fiction, help us deal with reality? Winner of three Ubu Awards as best leading and supporting actor, nominated for a David di Donatello for best supporting actor in Marco Bellocchio's Esterno Notte, Fausto Russo Alesi has been one of the most appreciated actors in film and theater since the early 2000s. In cinema, besides Bellocchio, he has worked with Silvio Soldini, Florestano Vancini, Mario Monicelli, Carlo Mazzacurati, Sergio Castellitto, Marco Tullio Giordana, and Roberto Andò. In theater he has collaborated with Luca Ronconi, Serena Sinigaglia, Peter Stein, Damiano Michieletto, Gabriele Vacis and others. Fausto Russo Alesi starred in 2017 at Teatro Sociale in Ivan, a play loosely based on Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, co-produced by Fondazione Teatro Donizetti and directed by Serena Sinigaglia.

From Baroque music to jazz, from Bach to Charlie Parker via Mozart and Donizetti: a kaleidoscope of sounds, rhythms and colors characterizes the fourth edition of Il Centro della Musica, six concerts scheduled on Saturday afternoons between May 31 and July 7, now a traditional event organized by the Donizetti Theater Foundation in collaboration with the Bergamo City Council's Social Policies Department. A valuable opportunity 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. "In its fourth edition, The Music Center confirms itself as a review that aims to offer moments of musical sharing with varied content, on a weekday and at a time that allows both the Donizetti Theater and the adjacent Piacentiniano Center to come alive," specifies Massimo Boffelli, General Director of the Donizetti Theater Foundation, "The usual collaboration of the Bergamo City Council's Social Policies Department testifies to an institutional synergy that aims to make the most of an initiative with an inclusive character, intended for audiences of all ages." "This year the partnerships with the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana and Ensemble Locatelli, already present in previous editions ofIl Centro della Musica and in other festivals promoted by our Foundation, are also further consolidated, while we welcome the return of CDpM Europe - Centro Didattico Produzione Musica and the new entry Musica Aperta. Collaboration with all these realities is fundamental for the realization and success of the review," Massimo Boffelli concludes. The fourth edition of The Center for Music begins May 31 with theItalian Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble and a journey into the ever-impressive world of Argentine tango. Soloists: Andrea Coruzzi, bandoneon and accordion; Cesare Carretta, violin; Nicola Ziliani, double bass. Music by Carlos Gardel, Astor Piazzolla and Richard Galliano, among others. This will be followed on June 7 by a concert by theLocatelli Ensemble conducted by Thomas Chigioni titled Bach from Organ to Bow., entirely dedicated to the Master of Leipzig: one of the most ambitious programs offered by Ensemble Locatelli over the years, the concept of which is to transfer some of Bach's greatest pages of organ music to the other great medium of expression available to the composer, the string orchestra. The following week, Saturday, June 14, theItalian Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jacopo Rivani, will present The Diary of Adam and Eve, a concert-show based on Mark Twain's brilliant text and adapted by Silvia Rossetti. The Diary of Adam and Eve brings to the stage the brilliant and contrasting voices of the two biblical characters, played by Marco Montanari and Rendy Anoh, respectively. Original music by Danilo Comitini. On June 21, it will then be the turn of the Gruppo Fiati Musica Aperta to offer. Così fan tutte (or maybe not?), a semi-serious journey through the loves of melodrama (Mozart, Cherubini, Donizetti) with the participation of well-known comedian Enrico Beruschi. Direction by Pieralberto Cattaneo.

Donizetti Theatre Foundation/Bergamo Jazz and the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo present three extraordinary concerts at Lazzaretto in collaboration with the City of Bergamo Friday, June 27, 2025 Mare Nostrum: Paolo Fresu/Richard Galliano/Jan Lundgren Thursday, July 10, 2025 Kurt Elling & The Yellowjackets "Celebrate Weather Report" Friday, July 18, 2025 Herbie Hancock Three extraordinary concerts of international scope will be added to the usual Bergamo Jazz program, whose 46th edition is now just around the corner, from March 20 to 23. Three special events organized as part of the summer initiative promoted at Lazzaretto by the Culture Department of the City of Bergamo: Fondazione Teatro Donizetti and Bergamo Jazz, together with the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo, will bring artists of extraordinary prestige and international fame to Lazzaretto, reflecting the long tradition of two of the city's most important music festivals. It begins on Friday, June 27 with an authentic supertrio that bears the “name of Mare Nostrum and which aligns the trumpet of Paolo Fresu, one of the most beloved Italian jazz musicians, even” abroad, the masterful accordion of the Frenchman Richard Galliano and the piano of the Swede Jan Lundgren, a refined specialist of the 88 keys. Then, on Thursday, July 10, it will be the turn of American Kurt Elling and compatriots Yellowjackets: the summit meeting between today's leading exponent of jazz singing declined to the male voice and one of the most iconic bands in the jazz-fusion area will take place in the groove of the music of Weather Report, a legendary lineup that left behind indelible traces of adventurous and innovative music. Finally, on Friday, July 18, Bergamo will see the return, more than 50 years after his previous concert in the city, of Herbie Hancock, one of the brightest stars in the world musical firmament. The U.S. pianist, who will perform at Lazzaretto leading a band whose lineup will be announced soon, will hold a long European tour next summer, starting July 1 from Hamburg and ending July 31 in Madrid. There will be five Italian stops: Perugia, Rome, Udine, Bergamo and Naples. Tickets for the three concerts will be available at the Donizetti Theater Box Office and online on the VivaTicket circuit starting Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 4 p.m. Subscribers to the Bergamo Jazz Festival 2025 and the Piano Festival 2025 will be able to take advantage of the right of first refusal on reservations during the Bergamo Jazz Festival 2025, that is, from March 20 to March 23, again from 4 to 8 p.m. by coming directly to the Ticket Office (Piazza Cavour, 15). All concerts will begin at 9:30 PM. For Sergio Gandi, Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Bergamo, "it is an honor to have the opportunity to host artists of this value, whose presence further enriches the wide range of proposals of the fifth edition of Lazzaretto Estate, giving it an international imprint. Heartfelt thanks are therefore due to