Michela Gerosa

The first weekend packed with debuts of all opera productions, Roberto Devereux, Don Pasquale and Granata's Zoraida, the return of LU OpeRave to the Balzer Globe On Friday, November 15, opening of the exhibition D for Ten. Ten words for you say anninellaExhibition Hall of the Donizetti Theater Sunday, Nov. 17, the Birth House concert with Massimo Spadano and Francesco Libetta and the first Opera Family activity with The Owl Detective The opening weekend of the 10th Donizetti Opera festival - already the 2019 winner of the "Oper! Award" as best European festival by German critics and with four nominations for the International Opera Award also as best festival of the year - opens at the Balzer Globe on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024 at 9:30 p.m. with the reprise of one of the most innovative and popular projects during these ten editions of the festival: LU OpeRave in which Donizetti's music meets electronics and new trends; from the title the reference to Lucia di Lammermoor, from which the authors of this experimental project were inspired, is clear. At the origin of LU OpeRave are Mixopera vol. 1 and vol. 2, electronic music EPs inspired by Donizetti's music and made by some of the most prominent European electronic musicians gathered around the Fluidostudio label, available on all streaming platforms (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, YouTube Music). EP artists involved in LU OpeRave include Stefano Libertini Protopapa(creative director of the project), ilromantic, H.E.R. authors of the music. The booklet is by the Love Maniacs. Directed and choreographed by Mattia Agatiello, who brings to the stage his award-winning and celebrated Fattoria Vittadini dance company based at Milan's Fabbrica del Vapore. Sets and costumes are by Andrea Cammarosano and Leonardo Persico. The performers are from diverse musical backgrounds and experiences - soprano Laura Ulloa (a Bottega alumna in 2021), renowned vocalist David Blank and performer M¥SS KETA as narrator - and represent a fusion designed to speak to audiences of all generations, confirming the innovative and revolutionary power of Donizetti's poetics. To celebrate the 10-year anniversary, coinciding with the festival, on Friday, November 15 from 6:30 p.m., the photo exhibition will open Ten Words for Ten Years curated by Clelia Epis and Floriana Tessitore with images by Photo Studio U.V., set up in the Donizetti Theater's Exhibit Hall, next to the box office entrance and realized with the support of Assolari Luigi & C., which is among the initiatives entitled D for Ten and will culminate on Friday, Nov. 29, which coincides with Donizetti's Dies natalis. These are the ten words/sections that guide the collection of images: theater and city, encroachments, rediscoveries, masterpieces, women, Covid-19, awards, night, masters, youth. The photo exhibition, with free admission, can be visited during the performances, from Nov. 14 to Dec. 1, from two hours before the start. Saturday and Sunday also 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 29 (Dies natalis) 10 a.m.-8 p.m. All making their debuts are the three operatic titles around which the festival's entire program

Between art and life Maria Callas and Marina Abramović Donizettian heroines on stage and off Introduction by Roberto Pesenti, President Gres Art 671 Conversation with Francesco Micheli and Fabio Cleto moderated by Francesca Acquati Actress Matilde Facheris performs a monologue by Alberto Mattioli, soprano Eleonora Boaretto with pianist Giulio Zappa The first collaboration between the Donizetti Opera festival and Gres Art 671 Bergamo, Gres Art 671 Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 7 p.m. An "off-schedule" event for the Donizetti Opera 2024 festival that stems from an important new collaboration of the music event, organized by the Donizetti Theater Foundation, in collaboration with Fondazione Pesenti Ets, which-in the year of Bergamo Brescia Capital of Culture 2023-inaugurated gres art 671, the new cultural hub developed by Italmobiliare Group. At gres art 671, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, at 7 p.m., an event will be held that concretizes the interweaving of music, art, history and contemporaneity that animates the two Bergamasque institutions. Between Art and Life: Maria Callas and Marina Abramović Donizettian heroines on stage and off is the title of this meeting in which Francesco Micheli, artistic director of Donizetti Opera, will dialogue with Fabio Cleto, professor of English Literature and Cultural History at the University of Bergamo, moderator is Francesca Acquati, general manager gres art 671. The aim is to trace the ideal thread linking the past to the present and the heroines of Donizetti's operas (in the paradigmatic interpretation of Maria Callas) to a project by Marina Abramović, a woman-symbol of contemporary art, like Callas before her, to whom she has dedicated Seven Deaths, a performance in which visual art, opera and dialectical tension coexist between the evocation of Maria Callas and the immanence of Abramović herself, women in whom life and art converge. This initiative is proposed as a new opportunity for in-depth study related to the suggestions that come from Donizetti's operas and the fascination that the work continues to exert on today's artists. Bergamo actress Matilde Facheris will also perform an unpublished monologue written by Alberto Mattioli and dedicated to Maria Callas, while soprano Eleonora Boaretto, accompanied by pianist Giulio Zappa, will perform pages by Donizetti. At the end of the talk, the audience will have access to the Marina Abramović, Between Breath and Fire exhibition in the spaces of gres art 671. The meeting is free admission with reservations subject to availability at https://ticket. gresart671 .org/buy/event.aspx?ID=6343 This new opportunity for collaboration between two Bergamasque cultural entities underscores common intentions, and especially common desire to bring international artistic experiences to Bergamo, such as the Donizetti Opera festival and the multidisciplinary and inclusive programming of gres art 671.

Conducting the Donizetti Opera Orchestra is the young Mexican Iván López-Reynoso; direction is by Amélie Niemeyer In the title role is a specialist Roberto de Candia while Ernesto is Javier Camarena, undisputed idol of the festival audience Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo Thursday, Nov. 14, 5 p.m. (preview under 30) Sunday, Nov. 17, 3 p.m.30 (Round C) Friday, Nov. 22, 8 p.m. (Round A) Saturday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m. (non-subscription) It is an opportunity not to be missed for all fans to be able to hear in Bergamo a masterpiece such as Don Pasquale - the third operatic title of the Donizetti Opera 2024 - scheduled at the Donizetti Theater onSundayNovember17 at 3:30 p.m. (replays on Friday, November 22 and Saturday, November 30 at 8 p.m.) with on the music stands a preview of the new critical edition edited by Roger Parker and Gabriele Dottofor the National Edition produced by Casa Ricordi, in collaboration and with the contribution of the City of Bergamo and the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, which is scheduled for official release in 2026. On Thursday, Nov. 14 at 5 p.m., young audiences will attend the opera at theunder-30 preview, tickets for which cost 10 euros. The comic drama Don Pasquale is certainly among the Bergamasque's best-known and best-loved titles since its triumphant debut in Paris in 1843: in this new edition of the Donizetti Opera festival, it will be vocally entrusted to two "masters" such as Roberto de Candia (Don Pasquale) and Javier Camarena (Ernesto) joined by the voices of Bottega Donizetti students Giulia Mazzola (Norina) and Dario Sogos (Dottor Malatesta) reaffirming once again the Bergamasque event's desire to be a springboard for new voices. The cast is completed by Fulvio Valenti (a notario). On the podium is the young Mexican Iván López-Reynoso, who will lead theDonizetti Opera Orchestra and the Accademia Teatro alla Scala Chorus prepared by Salvo Sgrò. "We are talking," says conductor López Reynoso, "about a title that completely revolutionizes the operatic aesthetic of the time. In Don Pasquale Donizetti finds a perfect balance, never seen before, between comedy and drama, situations and characters that make people laugh but are also simultaneously very serious, even painful. Let us also not forget that Donizetti uses the "consumer" music of his time in his score: in particular, the waltz. His music is full of waltzes, explicit or only evoked, starting with the ternary rhythm of the first cabaletta of Don Pasquale, "Un foco insolito." When it was written, it was a "modern" opera, interwoven with the music of its time, and for that reason, too, it immediately stood out. I would add that at the time of Don Pasquale Donizetti's art was at its peak. The delicacy and refinement with which many pages are written is remarkable, and often small details are enough to give them character." The production is by director Amélie Niemeyer (reprised by Giulia Giammona), with sets and costumes by Maria-Alice Bahra, choreography by Dustin Klein and lighting by Tobias Löffler. "Donizetti is an

Dopo due secoli torna sul palcoscenico la rarità donizettiana nella versione del 1824 Alberto Zanardi sul podio dell’orchestra con strumenti antichi Gli Originali L’allestimento, con la regia di Bruno Ravella, è coprodotto con il Festival di Wexford Nel cast il tenore Konu Kim, il soprano Zuzana Marková nel ruolo del titolo e il mezzosoprano Cecilia Molinari Prima del debutto Donizetti Talk alla Biblioteca Mai e l’anteprima under 30 Teatro Sociale, Bergamo sabato 9 novembre, ore 17 (Biblioteca “Angelo Mai” - Donizetti Talk) mercoledì 13 novembre, ore 17 (anteprima under 30) sabato 16 novembre, ore 20 (Turno A) domenica 24 novembre, ore 15.30 (fuori abbonamento) domenica 1 dicembre, ore 15.30 (Turno C) Nel 2024, oltre a celebrare le dieci edizioni del Donizetti Opera, ricorre il bicentenario del debutto di Zoraida di Granata – primo grande successo del compositore bergamasco – andata in scena al Teatro Argentina di Roma in una prima versione nel 1822 e poi nel 1824, nella stesura che per la prima volta in tempi moderni viene riproposta a Bergamo, al Teatro Sociale, sabato 16 novembre alle ore 20 (repliche domenica 24 novembre e domenica 1° dicembre, ore 15.30). Si tratta naturalmente dell’opera scelta per il ciclo #donizetti200 che ogni anno propone nel programma festivaliero un titolo che compie i due secoli. Il debutto di questa rarità sarà preceduta da un nuovo Donizetti Talk, sabato 9 novembre alle ore 17.00 alla Biblioteca Mai e poi al Teatro Sociale, a cura dell’Area scientifica del festival, che ha per tema appunto Zoraida di Granata e vedrà impegnati i musicologi Edoardo Cavalli e Paolo Fabbri e la partecipazione del direttore d’orchestra Alberto Zanardi e del regista Bruno Ravella. Il pubblico avrà poi la possibilità di accedere alle prove d’insieme dell’opera ed assistere in anteprima ad una scena della nuova produzione. Per partecipare è consigliata la prenotazione su www.donizettiopera.org. Mercoledì 13 novembre alle ore 17.00 sarà invece il pubblico dei giovani a poter assistere all’opera grazie all’anteprima under 30, il cui biglietto ha un costo di 10 euro. Zoraida di Granata, composta da Donizetti su libretto di Bartolomeo Merelli e – per la versione che debuttò al Teatro Argentina di Roma il 7 gennaio 1824 – di Jacopo Ferretti sarà proposta con un allestimento frutto della coproduzione con il Wexford Festival Opera che, lo scorso anno, ha presentato lo stesso titolo ma nella versione del 1822; in entrambi i casi l’edizione critica è stata curata da Edoardo Cavalli per la Fondazione Teatro Donizetti. Regista dello spettacolo è Bruno Ravella, nato a Casablanca con origini italiane e polacche, studi in Francia e adesso stabile a Londra; scene e costumi sono di Gary McCann. Il cast comprende Konu Kim (Almuzir, unico interprete in comune con il festival irlandese), Zuzana Marková (Zoraida), Cecilia Molinari, (Abenamet) e gli Allievi della Bottega Donizetti Tuty Hernàndez (Almanzor), Lilla Takács (Ines) e Valerio Morelli (Alì). Sul podio Alberto Zanardi, giovane bacchetta cresciuta in questi anni “dietro le quinte” del festival, interprete nel 2023 del Piccolo compositore di musica, che sarà alla guida dell’orchestra di strumenti d’epoca Gli Originali. «Scorrendo i titoli riproposti con il progetto #donizetti200 – racconta Zanardi – questo è probabilmente il primo caso in

On the podium is festival music director Riccardo Frizza; direction is by Stephen Langridge As Elizabeth I the soprano Jessica Pratt, Roberto Devereux is tenor John Osborne, while Simone Piazzola will be Nottingham and Raffaella Lupinacci Sara The premiere will be preceded by the Donizetti Talk in-depth meeting and open rehearsal and the preview dedicated to the under 30s Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo Friday, Nov. 8, 5 p.m.30 (Donizetti Talk) Tuesday, Nov. 12, 5 p.m. (preview under 30) Friday, Nov. 15, 8 p.m. (non-subscription) Saturday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m. (non-subscription - as an option to Round C) Thursday, Nov. 28, 8 p.m. (Round A)   The debut of the first title to be staged at Teatro Donizetti is approaching: Roberto Devereux, one of Gaetano Donizetti's most beloved operas scheduled for Friday, Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. (replays on Saturday, Nov. 23 and Thursday, Nov. 28, also at 8 p.m.). So we are just a few days away from the official start of the 10th edition of the Donizetti Opera festival, an event of international significance dedicated to the composer from Bergamo and by the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti chaired by Giorgio Berta with the general direction of Massimo Boffelli, the artistic direction of Francesco Micheli and the musical direction of Riccardo Frizza. An unfailing stop toward the premiere of Roberto Devereux the Donizetti Talk scheduled for Friday, Nov. 8 at 5:30 p.m. in the Riccardi Room of the Donizetti Theater with musicologists from the festival's Scientific Area Livio Aragona and Maurizio Merisio and the participation of conductor Riccardo Frizza and director Stephen Langridge. The audience will then have the opportunity to access the ensemble rehearsal of the opera and thus preview a scene from the new production. Reservations are recommended to attend at www.donizettiopera.org. On Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 5 p.m., it will instead be the youth audience that will be able to attend the opera thanks to theunder-30 preview, tickets for which cost 10 euros. "Roberto Devereux is my favorite Donizetti opera," has repeatedly had occasion to declare the festival's music director Riccardo Frizza, who, after having performed it around the world, will be on the podium of the Donizetti Opera Orchestra bringing to the music stands the National Edition realized by Casa Ricordi in collaboration with and with the contribution of the City of Bergamo and the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti edited by Julia Lockhart, published in 2022. "Roberto Devereux is a masterpiece, indeed perhaps Donizetti's masterpiece, at least in the field of Italian opera," Frizza emphasizes. "It is the title of the turning point, of complete maturity. There will be other masterpieces, especially French ones, but none will move the bar of Donizettian inspiration higher. By force: a very strong and passionate story, with well-drawn characters, an extraordinary figure of a power woman in love, great musical invention and a great formal freedom, transcending the closed forms that were still the rule of melodrama at the time. And, in the end, an altogether unusual subject, unique, I think, in Donizetti's

It begins with "The Enigma of Peace. Necessary Aspiration, Inevitable Conflict" meeting related to the subject of Zoraida di Granata that will feature theologian Don Giuliano Zanchi and journalist Andrea Valesini in dialogue Bergamo, Donizetti Theater, Riccardi Hall, Monday, Nov. 4, 6 p.m. We are getting closer and closer to the inauguration of the tenth edition of the Donizetti Opera festival, which will take place in Bergamo "City of Gaetano Donizetti" from November 14 to December 1, 2024, but the wait is punctuated by a series of appointments to accompany the public in discovering the operas on the program and the many still topical issues that animate librettos, dramaturgies and staging. In these ten editions, alongside the offering of the various titles in editions that are philologically unimpeachable and consistent with the performance practice of the time, the festival has aimed to investigate Donizetti's in some respects revolutionary and modern theatricality. In this sense, the subjects of the 2024 operas still inspire quite a few reflections that have been placed at the basis of the three meetings of the Donizetti Today cycle, in which experts and professionals from non-musical fields and related to other city institutions, reflect and discuss how to transfer the scheduled Donizetti operas to the present day. It begins on Monday, Nov. 4 (Donizetti Theater, Riccardi Hall, 6 p.m.) when Don Giuliano Zanchi (theologian, scientific director of the Adriano Bernareggi Foundation of Bergamo and professor of theology at the Catholic University of Milan) and Andrea Valesini (journalist, editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper "L'Eco di Bergamo," often a correspondent in war zones) will converse on The Enigma of Peace. Necessary aspiration, inevitable conflict related to Zoraida di Granata. Then, on Monday, Nov. 11, Alberto Mattioli and Marco Ubezio will discuss a topic dear to them, Tutti pazzi per i Royals creating a connection between Donizetti's passion for "the Tudori" and the current ruling family in Great Britain; finally, on Monday, Nov. 18, psychiatrist Filippo Tancredi with Albert Mattioli, taking a cue from Don Pasquale, will debate on Desiderio senza età. All the meetings are free admission with reservations recommended at gaetanodonizetti.org Around the opera titles are then scheduled the long-awaited Donizetti Talks curated by the festival's Scientific Area with the participation of the directors and conductors of the operas and access to rehearsals. The first meeting on Friday, Nov. 8 (Teatro Donizetti, Sala Riccardi, 5:30 p.m.) is for Roberto Devereux with Livio Aragona and Maurizio Merisio; on Saturday, Nov. 9 (5 p.m.) at the Mai Library and then at the Teatro Sociale, it will be dedicated to Zoraida di Granata and will feature speakers Edoardo Cavalli and Paolo Fabbri. It continues on Sunday, Nov. 10 (5 p.m.) in the Riccardi Room of the Donizetti Theater with Candida Billie Mantica and Livio Aragona for Don Pasquale. All these meetings are free admission with reservations recommended at gaetanodonizetti.org Finally, we talk about libraries and books with Donizetti Bookmarks (Teatro Donizetti, Sala Musica, 6 p.m.), Saturday, Nov. 23 C'è posta per

Sounds of Joy: is the title Joe Lovano wanted to imprint on the 2025 edition of the Bergamo Jazz Festival, the second under the Artistic Direction of the famous American saxophonist. Organized by Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, with the support of the City of Bergamo, MIC-Ministry of Culture and private sponsors, the Festival will be held March 20-23, with concerts at Teatro Donizetti and Teatro Sociale flanked by numerous events scattered throughout the City, which for the 46th time will come alive with the thousands of sounds of a music that has long put down firm and deep roots in Bergamo. "Sounds of Joy means the celebration of a musical community born among the people for the people. The celebration of jazz from its origins until today. The dance of life, love and spirit unites us as one," specifies Joe Lovano, "The idea of jazz improvisation has taken many paths over the years and is 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." Unfailingly faithful to the Festival's natural international vision, the 2025 edition of Bergamo Jazz will thus once again be a wide-open window on the composite scene of an expressive universe that continues to show signs of vitality in its being an ideal meeting point between different musics and cultures. While numerous initiatives carried out in collaboration with as many realities of the territory are being defined, including meetings with schools and the "Scintille di Jazz" section dedicated to new talents, the bill of concerts at the Donizetti Theater and the Teatro Sociale is already finalized in detail, so that the subscription campaign and ticket sales can begin. In fact, old subscribers will be able to renew from December 3 to 21, 2024 (change seats from January 8 to 10, 2025), with right of first refusal for concerts at the Sociale. New subscriptions will then be available from January 14, 2025, with the possibility of purchasing Sociale tickets as well, while tickets for individual evenings at the Donizetti will go on sale from January 28.   Jazz at Donizetti Venerdì 21 marzo, la prima delle tre serate in abbonamento al Teatro Donizetti, con inizio alle ore 20.30, amatissime sia dai bergamaschi sia da chi proviene da ogni parte d’Italia e da oltre confine, sarà aperta dal duo formato da un fuoriclasse del contrabbasso come Dave Holland e da Lionel Loueke, uno dei chitarristi più innovativi apparsi sulle scene del jazz negli ultimi decenni. Una coppia artistica di spessore che fungerà da “apripista” al concerto della Wayne Shorter Legacy, ovvero il pianista Danilo Pérez, il contrabbassista John Patitucci e il batterista Brian Blade, che per quasi 25 anni hanno condiviso con il grande sassofonista e

Celebratory program with two masterpieces: Roberto Devereux and Don Pasquale Zoraida di Granata is the rarity for #donizetti200 LU OpeRave returns, the thematic meetings, presentations, open rehearsals, and activities for schools and families The playbills feature the names of great performers such as Javier Camarena, Roberto de Candia, Cecilia Molinari, John Osborn, and Jessica Pratt along with other established younger performers and students of the Bottega Donizetti On the podium Riccardo Frizza, Iván López-Reynoso and Alberto Zanardi The directors are Stephen Langridge, Amélie Niermeyer, Bruno Ravella and Mattia Agatiello In Bergamo, activities begin Oct. 25 in anticipation of opera weekends from Nov. 14 to Dec. 1 2015-2024: Less than a month to go until the tenth edition of the Donizetti Opera festival, a major international event dedicated to the Bergamasque composer and organized by the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti chaired by Giorgio Berta with the general direction of Massimo Boffelli, the artistic direction of Francesco Micheli and the musical direction of Riccardo Frizza. The music program will take place in Bergamo "City of Gaetano Donizetti" from Nov. 14 to Dec. 1, 2024, but as early as Oct. 25 there are numerous activities planned for the public: meetings, lectures and open rehearsals. "We are approaching the debut of Donizetti Opera 2024 with a lot of really encouraging data," says Donizetti Theatre Foundation President Giorgio Berta, "Once again this year's fundraising from sponsors and donors has been beyond significant and highly satisfying, standing at 1,300,000 euros to date for the entire Foundation. We confirmed the main partnerships but also recorded important new memberships. We launched a new project that links the number of Donizetti Ambassadors to the 73 works in the Donizetti catalog, and to date we have matched 50 Ambassadors to as many titles. Reservations and ticket sales at the moment are also up from last year, demonstrating that the balance found by artistic director Francesco Micheli between research and repertoire is winning. Finally, the foreign press is also increasingly interested in reporting and documenting Donizetti Opera's programming-a further confirmation of the festival's internationality." "Donizetti Opera," says Bergamo's Culture Councillor Sergio Gandi, "will stage Gaetano Donizetti's titles within a proposal linked to contemporaneity that will also address current political issues, as has already happened in recent editions. This has contributed over time to making a "star" out of an author who was almost unknown to the city. In general, this articulated and so organized programming has given the festival and therefore also the whole city an international profile, as shown by the data already in our possession, which mark 87 percent of foreigners in group bookings. All this leads us to be able to consider Donizetti Opera a pillar of Bergamo's identity: this edition celebrating ten editions proves this in a special way." "This is the tenth edition of Donizetti Opera," stresses artistic director Francesco Micheli, "the tenth year in which we have been working on the construction of a monument to this artist whose greatness has yet to be explored,

On Saturday, October 19 at the Donizetti Theater, meetings dedicated to teachers of all grades were held in preparation for the activities dedicated to schools during the tenth edition of the Donizetti Opera festival An entire day dedicated to teacher training was held in the Music Room of the Donizetti Theater in preparation for the 2024 edition of Donizetti Education, which includes all the activities dedicated to schools and families during the Donizetti Opera festival. More than 120 teachers of all grades and school levels thus took part in an active in which the Donizetti Theater Foundation invests much of its attention and resources, with a view to enhancing and disseminating Donizetti's cultural heritage to younger generations. Realized in collaboration with ATS and the Territorial School Office, the day had a full schedule full of speeches involving the Foundation's experts: to the teachers, after institutional greetings by Donizetti Theater Foundation director Massimo Boffelli and the head of the Simple Structure for Addiction Prevention of the Hygiene and Health Prevention Department of ATS Bergamo Luca Biffi, the program of the tenth edition of Donizetti Opera was illustrated by artistic director Francesco Micheli and musicologist of the scientific section Livio Aragona. The teachers were thus able to learn in detail about the festival's operatic proposal composed of the three Donizetti titles Roberto Devereux, Zoraida di Granata and Don Pasquale; the presentation was followed by a guided tour of the Donizetti Theater by Clelia Epis, who curates the iconography research and archives for the Foundation, as well as being a Donizetti Education trainer. In the second part of the day, teachers were divided for each school order of reference into three meetings: Manuel Renga, who will direct and dramaturgy the performance dedicated to students entitled Don Pasquale. The great game of love (staged for schools at the Donizetti Theater on Nov. 22, 25 and 26 and for families on Sunday, Nov. 24 at 4 p.m.), presented the creative project; Alessandra Giolo, on the other hand, told the preschool teachers about Tano di Lammermoor, a workshop-performance whose protagonists are little Gaetano and his enchanted toys that will help him face his path of growth; Maria Teresa Galati , on the other hand, gave a talk dedicated to opera and theater for adolescents aimed at high school teachers. Finally, a workshop dedicated to the youngest children was presented that will be carried out in the classroom before attending Don Pasquale. The great game of love . La partecipazione, totalmente gratuita, non prevedeva l’iscrizione obbligatoria delle classi agli spettacoli e ai progetti formativi della Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, ma ha voluto essere un’occasione di studio e approfondimento per gli insegnanti a prescindere dalla ricaduta effettiva sulle classi. Questa decisione è nata dal desiderio della Fondazione di coinvolgere gli insegnanti come interlocutori privilegiati e portatori di cultura alle nuove generazioni, in accordo con le linee guida del proprio statuto.  

Five appointments scheduled on Saturday mornings at the Donizetti Theater from Jan. 18 to March 1, 2025: after the success of the past Season, "Lezioni di Storia," a series of meetings conceived by Editori Laterza and produced in co-production with the Donizetti Theater Foundation of Bergamo and with the support of Cassa Lombarda, returns. The new edition is entitled Rebels: an unprecedented program that focuses on the thought and action of some great figures of the past and is intended as an exhortation to cultivate hope for change that is always possible. Opening the cycle will be theologian Vito Mancuso on January 18 with the lecture Jesus: the Breaking of the Law. On Feb. 1 it will be the turn of Francesca Cenerini who will talk about the figure of Cleopatra and the influence Egyptian culture had on the taste of the Romans. The following Saturday, Feb. 8, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli will take the Donizetti stage to recount the historical figure, charisma and complex personality of Joan of Arc. On Feb. 15, Luigi Mascilli Migliorini will offer a profound reflection on Robespierre, at the heart of the French Revolution, while to close, on March 1 Loris Zanatta will present Fidel Castro and his revolutionary "political religion." All meetings will begin at 11 a.m. and will be introduced by journalist Max Pavan, Bergamo TV news director. Tickets 10 euros, with a reduction for schools to 8 euros. Sales open from Oct. 23. At the end of all meetings, the authors will stop with the audience for a firmacopie at the Ridotto Gavazzeni of the theater. Sergio Gandi, Councillor for Culture of the City of Bergamo, offers the Administration's greetings, emphasizing the value of the initiative: "In a City as rich in history as Bergamo, the "Lessons" promoted by the Donizetti Theater Foundation are an added value, an original way of reliving the past through the eyes of the present. The confirmation of interest by Laterza, one of the most significant publishers on the national territory and of greater authority in the field of educational publishing, is a confirmation of the positioning of our City. And of the Donizetti Theater, which broadens its function and mission, becoming a 360-degree space of culture: it opens its doors not only to entertainment but also to different forms of community involvement, such as historical popularization, ready to welcome a curious audience always looking for new insights." Giorgio Berta, president of the Donizetti Theater Foundation, confirms how "this initiative is a broadening of our scope, complementing the many proposals in the spectacular sphere, from prose to opera to jazz. The "History Lessons" therefore fully correspond to that diversification of the offer that allows us to involve ever new audiences, with a focus on young people." Massimo Boffelli, General Director of the Foundation, comments, "We are pleased to reintroduce 'History Lessons,' on the back of the great success of the first edition: this initiative sees us in collaboration with a prestigious publishing house such as Laterza