September 28 and November 29, 2024Bergamo, Donizetti Theater "D come Dieci" editions of the Donizetti Opera festival: two days of celebration to go over the highlights together, visit the theater, remember and comment on the productions that also revealed hidden aspects of our favorite composer. Appointments for Saturday, Sept. 28 Donizetti Welcome 10 a.m. - 12:40 p.m. | Ticket Office Guided tours of the Donizetti Theater Buy Now DeCineForum Donizetti 2:30 p.m. | Music Room, Donizetti Theater L'ange de Nisida Projection of the Donizetti Opera 2019 staging. Book for free Qui Don Pasquale 4 pm | Donizetti Studio Workshop for children ages 8 to 13 by and with Clelia Epis Book for free Parla con Gaetano City Edition 5 p.m. | Quadriportico piacentiniano The great composer from Bergamo is waiting for you in the "confessional" in front of the theater "The Fragrant Sigh" 6 p.m. | Riccardi Hall, Donizetti Theater Three scents for three works with Alberto Mattioli, Allegrini and Atelier Fragranze Milano Book for free A Donizetti is forever 7 p.m. | Allianz Hall, Donizetti Theatre Conversation and appetizer on music and jewelry with Curnis Jewelry and Roberto Coin Book for free The little music composer 8 pm | Donizetti Theater Playful farce in two acts by John Simon Mayr Buy Now Mixopera 10:30 p.m. | Balzer Globe Mixopera Presents Nicola Buttafuoco × Donizetti Opera 10th Anniversary Live Set The appointments for Friday, November 29 Donizetti Welcome 10 a.m. - 12:40 p.m. | Ticket Office Guided tours of the Donizetti Theater Buy Now G for James and Gaetano 10:30 a.m. | Piazza Vecchia, Upper Town, Bergamo Student flashmob Musical elevation 11:15 a.m. | Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo DeCineForum Donizetti 2:30 p.m. | Music Room, Donizetti Theater La Favorite Projection of the Donizetti Opera 2021 festival staging. Book for free from Oct. 29 Let's sing Donizetti! 6 pm | Donizetti Studio 10 years of choirs for young audiences with Silvia Lorenzi. Group performance at 7:30 pm. Book for free from Oct. 29 A Donizetti is forever 7 p.m. | Allianz Hall, Donizetti Theatre Conversation and appetizer on music and jewelry with Curnis Jewelry and Roberto Coin Book for free from Oct. 29 Calling Gaetano, Amarcord 8 p.m.| Great Hall, Donizetti Theater To trace the history of the festival with a preview screening of excerpts from Anna Bolena (DO2015) Book for free from Oct. 29 LU OpeRave 9:30 p.m. | Balzer Globe Clubbing + Opera + Performance Followed by DJ set Buy Now

Guided opera viewings at the tenth edition of the Donizetti Opera festival   A new review is born on the occasion of the festival's 10th anniversary: DeCineForum Donizetti, five appointments for as many operas to watch and understand together. Curated by the scientific section of the Donizetti Opera, this musical "cineforum" wishes to accompany the public to the festival during the months when live appointments are not scheduled. In the Music Room of the Donizetti Theater, set up for optimal audio-video enjoyment, five Donizetti titles, particularly significant for the composer's career, will be offered, chosen from the productions staged over the past ten years by the festival, recorded by the Dynamic record company and belonging to different genres: to opera semiseria to opera buffa to the great melodramas. In detail: on Saturday, April 20 (2:30 p.m.) the following will be screened. Henry of Burgundy, a title of the #Donizetti200 cycle staged at the Teatro Sociale in 2018, two hundred years after its debut at the Teatro San Luca in Venice (a melodrama in two acts of the semiserio genre on a libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli), with Alessandro De Marchi conducting, Silvia Paoli directing and a cast of outstanding performers such as Anna Bonitatibus, Sonia Ganassi and Luca Tittoto. The screening will be preceded by a presentation by Candida Mantica. Livio Aragona will present the second title on the program, Saturday, April 27 (2:30 p.m.) Olivo and Pasquale, melodramma giocoso in two acts to a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, staged at Bergamo's Teatro Sociale for the 2016 festival in the autumn 1827 version, created for the Teatro Nuovo in Naples with alternating spoken dialogues and singing numbers, with Pasquale's part in Neapolitan. On the podium Federico Maria Sardelli, directed by operAlchemica (Ugo Giacomazzi and Luigi Di Gangi), vocal performers Bruno Taddia, Filippo Morace, Laura Giordano and Pietro Adaini. Saturday, May 25 (2:30 p.m.) Candida Mantica returns to present. Lucrezia Borgia, a melodrama in a prologue and two acts to a libretto by Felice Romani, Donizetti's tragic masterpiece that will be screened in the version staged at the Teatro Sociale in 2019 with Andrea Bernard directing, Riccardo Frizza conducting and starring Carmela Remigio, Xabier Anduaga, Marko Mimica and Varduhi Abrahamyan. In the fall, when the 10th edition of Donizetti Opera is just around the corner, two more screenings will be held: Saturday, September 28 L'ange de Nisida, on a libretto by Gustave Vaëz and Alphonse Royer, which was supposed to debut at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris in 1839, and instead received its first, acclaimed, staged performance at the very Donizetti Opera in 2019 with Francesco Micheli directing and Jean-Luc Tingaud on the podium; and finally Sunday, September 29 The favorite, grand-opéra to a libretto by Gustave Vaëz, Alphonse Royer and Eugène Scribe, in the full version staged at Teatro Donizetti in 2022 conducted by Riccardo Frizza and directed by Valentina Carrasco. These two productions represent two peaks of Donizetti Opera, having both won the Abbiati Prize of the