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Francesco Maria Piave

Date of Death: March 05, 1867 (56)

Birth Place: Murano, ITALY

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LA Opera 2024/25 Season to Include ROMEO AND JULIET, Concerts from Kelli O'Hara and Kristin Chenoweth, and More

LA Opera President and CEO Christopher Koelsch has announced details for the company's 39th season. Music Director James Conlon will conduct three of the five mainstage productions, with other mainstage performances led by Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados and by guest conductor Domingo Hindoyan.

Photos: First Look At Verid's RIGOLETTO At Opera San José

Opera San José’s 40th anniversary season continues with a thrilling production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. See photos from the production.

Vengeance, Murder, More On Stage As Opera San José Presents RIGOLETTO, February 17- March 3

Opera San José's 40th anniversary season continues with a thrilling production of Verdi's Rigoletto. Boasting some of opera's most memorable music, including the signature aria “La donna è mobile,” this gripping work follows the jester Rigoletto, his innocent daughter Gilda, and the corrupt Duke of Mantua whose callous treatment of women launches a storm of vengeance, murder, and tragic self-sacrifice.

Florida Grand Opera Opens 2023�"2024 Season With Verdi's LA TRAVIATA

Florida Grand Opera (FGO)’s 82nd season opens with La traviata. Learn more about the opera here!

SIMON BOCCANEGRA Comes to Teatro Alla Scala in 2024

Simon Boccanegra comes to Teatro Alla Scala in 2024. Performances run from 1 to 24 February 2024.

Review: Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo Turns Fairy Godmother as CRISPINO Returns to New York

The famed playwright and wit George S. Kaufman once said, “Satire is what closes on Saturday night.” One can only imagine what Kaufman--whose many credits include YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, as well as the source of Sondheim’s MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, which is circling Broadway for a return this fall--would have had to say about satiric operas. CRISPINO E LA COMARE (CRISPINO AND THE FAIRY GODMOTHER), a lively and lightweight 1850 comic piece that was was happily rescued from obscurity this week by Will Crutchfield's Teatro Nuovo.

Merola Opera Program to Present Schwabacher Summer Concert in August

Bay Area audiences are invited to revel in the high drama and opulent melodies of classic opera as artists from the 2023 Merola Opera Program perform extended scenes from works by Donizetti, Handel, Verdi, and others in the Schwabacher Summer Concert.

Verdi's Classic LA TRAVIATA Closes Memorable Season At Seattle Opera

In Seattle Opera’s mainstage finale, audiences will be treated to one of opera’s most enduring favorites: La traviata, Giuseppe Verdi’s sumptuous tale of true love lost.

OPERA America Awards Opera Grants For Women Stage Directors And Conductors

OPERA America has announced the first-round recipients of the 2023 Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors. 

Helena Matheopoulos Will Present a Speech on the oOccasion of Giuseppe Verdi's Opera FALSTAFF

Throughout his life, Verdi had a passion for Shakespeare. Inspired by the great English poet, he passed down to the operatic repertoire three masterpieces: Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff, assimilating the text through his music to such an extent that he managed to transform the Shakespearean dramas into new compositions.

LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Comes to Teatr Wielki This Month

Giuseppe Verdi’s La forza del destino starts with a scene of Donna Leonora and Don Alvaro’s moonlight tryst which is suddenly interrupted by the girl’s father, Marchese di Calatrava. Alvaro draws a pistol, most probably one with a flintlock mechanism, because that was what used in the 18th century.

THE POWER OF DESTINY Comes to Teatr Wielki Next Month

The Power of Destiny opens a series of operas that Giuseppe Verdi wrote for a foreign commission. 

See The Met Opera's LA TRAVIATA at The Ridgefield Playhouse Next Month

From the Met Opera stage to the big screen at The Ridgefield Playhouse, it's an encore in HD screening of Verdi's La Traviata on Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 12pm. 

Heartbeat Opera Announces 2022-2023 Season With Radical Reimaginings Of 3 Classics

New York's Heartbeat Opera has announced its ninth season in 2022-23. 

LA TRAVIATA is Now Playing at Theater St.Gallen

Violetta Valéry ist jung, begehrt und todkrank. In der glamourösen Halbwelt von Paris führt sie als Edelprostituierte ein ausschweifendes, aber isoliertes Leben im Luxus – bis sie mit Alfredo den Mann trifft, für den sie alles aufgeben und mit dem sie einen bürgerlichen Neuanfang wagen will. Doch die Moralvorstellungen von Alfredos Familie sowie das Fortschreiten ihrer Krankheit machen Violettas Pläne zunichte.

LA TRAVIATA Premieres at Theater St.Gallen This Week

Violetta Valéry ist jung, begehrt und todkrank. In der glamourösen Halbwelt von Paris führt sie als Edelprostituierte ein ausschweifendes, aber isoliertes Leben im Luxus – bis sie mit Alfredo den Mann trifft, für den sie alles aufgeben und mit dem sie einen bürgerlichen Neuanfang wagen will. Doch die Moralvorstellungen von Alfredos Familie sowie das Fortschreiten ihrer Krankheit machen Violettas Pläne zunichte.

Lyric Opera Of Kansas City Announces 2022 - 2023 Season

The season includes four mainstage productions at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Carmen, La traviata, The Shining, and Sondheim on Sondheim in addition to live performances of the holiday classic, Amahl and the Night Visitors and the Kansas City premiere of Listen, Wilhelmina!, an imaginative children's opera at the Michael and Ginger Frost Production Arts Building. All Kauffman Center performances will be accompanied by the Kansas City Symphony.

BWW Feature: POCKETOPERA LA TRAVIATA: STERVEN AAN JE DIEPSTE WENS at Violetta Is In Het Concept Van Regisseur Dorike Van Genderen Een Trans Vrouw!

Van 5 november - 9 december 2021 toeren wij met de nieuwe pocketopera La traviata door Nederland. In de bewerking van regisseur Dorike van Genderen is Violetta een trans vrouw. Het concept is gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal van Lili Elbe (1882 - 1931), die als een van de eersten geslachtsveranderende operaties onderging en daar uiteindelijk aan stierf.

BWW Feature: OPERA ODYSSEY SEPT. 7, 2021, at Home Computer Screens

Lyric Opera of Chicago has recorded Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci on film. Last week, the company announced that registration was open for audiences to secure free links to screen the new Pagliacci made at the Lyric Opera House. Audiences can now secure a free, on-demand viewing of this verismo production. More information about the production and reservations are available at lyricopera.org/pagliacci. 

Melbourne Opera Presents Giuseppe Verdi's MACBETH

Following the sell-out success of Wagner's epic Das Rheingold at The Regent in February, Melbourne Opera will stage an inspired new production of Giuseppe Verdi's thrilling Macbeth at Her Majesty's Theatre from 18 May. 

Francesco Maria Piave FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many shows has Francesco Maria Piave written?

Francesco Maria Piave has written 2 shows including La Traviata (Librettist), Rigoletto (Librettist).

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