2005 - 2006 OPERA SEASON

 

Verdi, Mozart, Donizetti and the contemporary musician Henze

 

Miniature of the set for “The Troubadour”

Season ticket subscriptions and individual tickets

 

The Teatro delle Muse in Ancona is pleased to present its fourth Opera Season, with artistic direction provided by Alessio Vlad.

“Exquisite” was the word used to define the play-bill for the last programme at Le Muse which staged, according to the influential critic Elvio Giudici, the “best Norma in the last 30 years”, alongside a diptych supporting the work of two historical twentieth-century masters and a Bohème which was greatly appreciated by the public.  The season consisted of 10 recitals which were completely sold-out, with more than one thousand bookings taken (300 of which were “special” bookings as they were linked to the All’Opera in treno [To the Opera by Train] project), with a substantial number of Italian and foreign groups and the involvement of approximately one hundred students, which was attended by the specialist critics who unanimously highlighted the quality of the productions. 

 

The Teatro delle Muse 2005 - 2006 Opera Season consists of four titles and a total of 13 recitals: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio (the 4th, 6th and 8th November), Hans Werner Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers in its original language with surtitles (the 9th, 11th and 13th December), Gaetano Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux (the 18th, 20th and 22nd January) and Giuseppe Verdi’s The Troubadour (the 21st, 23rd, 25th and 26th February).

The choice of operas respects the desire to maintain a balanced programme schedule by presenting an opera from the eighteenth century, one from the twentieth century, one from a repertoire considered to be in the so-called ‘belcanto’ style and finally an opera from Verdi’s huger repertoire; taking into consideration two important anniversaries with a little licence used to celebrate them a little while before they actually occur, these are the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart and the eightieth birthday of Henze (both of these occasions fall within the year 2006).

 

These are four masterpieces in every sense of the word, the staging of which involved the Teatro delle Muse Foundation organising co-production and collaborations with six different, prominent Theatres: the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Cagliari Operatic Theatre) Foundation for The Abduction from the Seraglio; the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli (Naples San Carlo Theatre) Foundation for Elegy for Young Lovers; the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (Rome Opera Theatre) Foundation and the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo (Bergamo Donizetti Theatre) for Roberto Devereux; the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Bologna Municipal Theatre) Foundation and the Opera di Oporto Portuense Society for The Troubadour, which is travelling to put on a production in Tokyo as soon as the recitals in Ancona have been completed.

The co-production and collaborations with prestigious Italian and overseas theatres demonstrate the reputation that the Teatro delle Muse has built up and safeguarded in terms of artistic quality and also - a not inconsiderable factor - keep the cost of staging an Opera Season that runs from November to February under control.  Both of these factors, i.e. trust in the artistic-musical reputation of the theatre and the economic aspect, define the identity of a theatre that considers its programming schedule carefully.

 

Moreover, the Teatro delle Muse Foundation is part of the European event Mozart Ways, due to the three Mozart productions staged over four seasons: Idomeneo, King of Crete (the Opera Award was presented to Pier Luigi Pizzi for the best set design of 2002), The Shepherd King which was shown last season and the upcoming Abduction from the Seraglio.  These three rare and original productions will help to promote the work of Mozart in 2006.

 

The productions in the 2005 - 2006 Opera Season will benefit, as always, from the participation of the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana (Marche Philharmonic Orchestra) and the “V. Bellini” Operatic Choir.

 

The Board of Governors for the Teatro delle Muse Foundation has decided that the ticket prices for the 2005 - 2006 Opera Season should remain unchanged.