Music Georg Friedrich Händel

Opera in three act
Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym after Giacomo Francesco Bussani

World Première King’s Theatre, Londra, 20 february 1724

First performed at Teatro Costanzi, 26 December 1955

Music by Leoš Janáček

Opera in three acts
Libretto by Leoš Janáček after Memoirs from the House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky

World première Teatro Nazionale di Brno April 12, 1930
The première, May 23 2022, will be the first performance at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Three-year project in collaboration with the Royal Opera House of London

Three-year project in collaboration with Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago to celebrate the centenary of the composer’s death

Music Giacomo Puccini

World Première Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 17 February 1904

First performed at Teatro Costanzi, 25 March 1908

Arvo Pärt / Robert Wilson

Music Arvo Pärt

Original production Première Noblessner Foundry, Tallinn Estonia 12 May 2015

ITALIAN PREMIERE

Music Ruggero Leoncavallo

Opera in one prologue and two acts
Libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo

On the occasion of the Centenary Celebration of the Birth of Franco Zeffirelli

World premiere at the Teatro dal Verme in Milan, on 21 May 1892

First performance at the Teatro Costanzi on January 18, 1894

Music Giuseppe Verdi

Opera in four acts
libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni

World Première Teatro dell’Opera del Cairo, 24 December 1871

First performed at Teatro Costanzi, 8 October 1881

Music Gaetano Donizetti

Melodramma giocoso in two acts
libretto by Felice Romani

World première Teatro della Cannobiana di Milano, 12 May 1832

First performed at Teatro Costanzi, 29 November 1883

Music Francis Poulenc

Opera in three acts and twelve scenes
libretto after the pièce by Georges Bernanos

World première Teatro alla Scala, Milan 26 January 1957 (in italian translation)

First performed at Teatro Costanzi, 17 March 1958