Festival Verdi 2023 - Complete programme and cast

The Festival Verdi is considered one of the premier opera music events in Italy and in the world, bringing together music lovers and opera music enthusiasts in Parma and Busseto, the homelands of Maestro Giuseppe Verdi, offering a memorable and enchanting experience.

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I Lombardi alla prima Crociata, Falstaff, Messa da Requiem, Il trovatore, Nabucco, Gala Verdiano: these are the great performances and that will lead the XXIII edition of the Festival Verdi 2023 from the 16^th of September to the 16^th of October, 2023. The Festival Verdi 2023 is a celebration of the life and legacy of Giuseppe Verdi, one of Italy's greatest composers born in Roncole Verdi, near Busseto and Parma.

I Lombardi alla prima Crociata, Messa da Requiem and Il trovatore will be held in the temple of the opera in the ducal city of Parma Teatro Regio di Parma, while Falstaff will be performed at Teatro Verdi in Busseto right in the heart of Verdi Homelands together with Nabucco in concert form at Teatro Magnani in Fidenza. In addition to the operas, you can enjoy a wide range of world-class performances, including operas, concerts, symphonies, and recitals.

CAST

Pier Luigi Pizzi, Davide Livermore, Manuel Renga sign the three new productions which will see Francesco Lanzillotta, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Alessandro Palumbo on the podium respectively, while Giampaolo Bisanti will conduct Nabucco and Omer Meir Wellber the Gala Verdiano.

Among the protagonists on stage, Eleonora Buratto, Francesca Dotto, Lidia Fridman, Federica Lombardi, Marta Torbidoni, Clementine Margaine, Julija Matočkina, Marco Ciaponi, Freddie De Tommaso, Gregory Kunde, Riccardo Massi, Antonio Poli, Giovanni Sala, Elia Fabbian, Marko Mimica, Vladimir Stoyanov, Franco Vassallo, Markus Werba, Michele Pertusi, Marco Spotti.

It is renewed the collaboration with La Toscanini, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Teatro Regio di Parma Chorus prepared by Martino Faggiani.

The charity gala concert Fuoco di Gioia, concerts and shows at the Teatro Regio di Parma, at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Busseto and at the Teatro Girolamo Magnani in Fidenza.

At Wopa the lyrical-theatrical work Otello Circus and the interactive Opera Crime. At the Palazzo dell'Agricoltore, the engaging experience of A letto con Verdi and at the Teatro Regio, Alessandro Preziosi in Letteralmente Verdi.

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