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Opera & Ballet - 2026/2027 Season
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MACBETH
November 2026
November: 27 (8h00 pm), 29 (4h00 pm)
DETAILS:
Music Giuseppe Verdi
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Giuseppe Finzi
Director: Fabio Ceresa
Choreography: Mattia Agatiello
Cast: Alexey Zelenkov/Simon Lim, Marily Santoro/ Baia Saganelidze/Paolo Antonio Nevi/Timoteo Bene Junior/Andrei Miclea
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
A CHRISTMAS WELCOME
December 2026
December: 22 (8h30 pm)
DETAILS:
Music TBD
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Shawna Farrell/Vincenzo Li Causi
Cast: BSMT Singers/Maria Galantino
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
January 2027
January: 15 (8h00 pm), 17 (4h00 pm)
DETAILS:
Music Gioachino Rossini
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Massimo Raccanelli
Director: Adrian Schvarzstein
Cast: Paolo Nevi/Kihyun Lee/Giulia Alletto/Nicola Farnesi/Valerio Morelli/Giulio Riccò/Tamar Otanazde
Orchestra & Choir: Coro Colsper
DIDO & AENEAS
February 2027
February: 20 (8h00 pm), 21 (4h00 pm)
DETAILS:
Music Henry Purcell
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Director: Agata Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci, Vito Matera (Dewey Dell)
Choreography: Agata Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci
Cast: Ann Hallenberg/Benedetta Zanotto/Giovanna Baldini/Enrica Rouby/Rosa D’Alise/Andrea Gavagnin/Li Ruitao/Daniel Ochoa
Ballet: Agata Castellucci/Teodora Castellucci/Alberto Galluzzi/Trevor Louw/Francesca Siracusa
Orchestra & Choir: Venice Baroque Orchestra, Coro Accademia dello Spirito Santo
SIMON BOCCANEGRA
April 2027
April: 09 (8h00 pm), 11 (4h00 pm)
DETAILS:
Music Giuseppe Verdi
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Massimo Zanetti
Director: Pier Francesco Maestrini
Cast: Fernando Cisneros/Luca Park/Jaqueline Livieri/Matteo Desole/Junhyeok Felix Park/Renzo Ran
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra Regionale dell’Emilia-Romagna Arturo Toscanini, Coro Lirico di Modena
FOLK SONGS E PROCEDURA PENALE
May 2027
May: 29 (4h00 pm - 9h00 pm), 30 (4h00 pm - 9h00 pm)
DETAILS:
Music Luciano Berio e Luciano Chailly
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Rocco Cianciotta
Director: Giovanni Dispenza
Cast: Janessa Shae O’Hearn - Cecilia Chailly
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra del Conservatorio “G. Frescobaldi” di Ferrara
L’ANNO CHE VERRÀ
December 2026
December: 11 (8h30 pm), 12 (8h30 pm)
DETAILS:
Music Lucio Dalla - Universal Music Publishing Ricordi
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Roberto Molinelli
Director: Manuel Renga
Choreography: Michele Merola
Cast: Pierdavide Carone/Marinella Manicardi/Gabriele Martini/Asia Minniti/Alessandro Russo/Biagio Labanca/Massimo De Stephanis/Maurizio Brancone/MM Contemporary Dance Company
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra Città di Ferrara, Accademia Corale Vittore Veneziani
ROMEO E GIULIETTA
December 2026
December: 30 (8h00 pm), 31 (5h00 pm)
DETAILS:
Music Sergej Prokof’ev
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Evgeniya Bespalova
Choreography: Leonid Lavrovskij
Cast: Russian Classical Ballet
CHOTTO DESH
February 2027
February: 03 (8h30 pm)
DETAILS:
Music Jocelyn Pook
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Sue Buckmaster
Choreography: Akram Khan
Cast: Akram Khan Company
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO
March 2027
March: 12 (8h00 pm), 14 (4h00 pm)
DETAILS:
Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ARTISTS:
Conductor: Ottavio Dantone
Director: Chiara Muti
Cast: Ilker Arcayürek/Mariangela Sicilia/Martina Licari/Arianna Vendittelli/Paola Gardina/Francesco Leone
Orchestra & Choir: Orchestra Giovanile “Luigi Cherubini”, Coro della Cattedrale di Siena Guido Chigi Saracini
MOMO
May 2027
May: 19 (8h30 pm)
DETAILS:
Music Maxim Waratt
ARTISTS:
Choreography: Akram Khan
Cast: Batsheva Dance Company/Batsheva Dance Company/Ariel Cohen



