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27 NOV-6 DEC
Michele Mariotti conducts Dialogues des Carmélites, an opera in three acts and 12 scenes, with libretto after the work of the same name by Georges Bernanos, and music by Francis Poulenc. Emma Dante directs. Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Gigli, www. operaroma.it.
DON QUIXOTE
18-31 DEC
David Garforth conducts this ballet in three acts, based on episodes taken from the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes with music by Ludwig Minkus, in a Teatro dell’Opera production choreographed by Laurent Hilaire. Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Gigli, www.operaroma.it.
Dialogues des Carmélites at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. Photo Fabrizio Sansoni / TOR.
L’ELISIR D’AMORE
11-15 JAN
Francesco Lanzillotta conducts and Ruggero Cappuccio directs this melodramma giocoso (opera buffa) in two acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Libretto by Felice Romani, with the orchestra and chorus of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. Piazza Beniamino Gigli, www.operaroma.it.
RAPUNZEL THE MUSICAL
2 DEC-8 JAN
Maurizio Colombi directs this musical loosely based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, with Lorella Cuccarini in the lead role. Teatro Brancaccio, Via Merulana 244, www.teatrobrancaccio.it.
CATS
7-31 DEC
The hit musical by English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber comes to Teatro Sistina. Produced by Peeparrow, the Italian version of the show will be directed by Massimo Romeo Piparo, with Malika Ayane as Grizabella. For the first time ever, the show will be set in Rome, amid ancient Roman ruins and with the Colosseum as the backdrop. Based on the poetry of T. S. Eliot, the musical tells the story of a tribe of cats and the night they make the “Jellicle choice” by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside layer and come back to a new life. Teatro Sistina, Via Sistina 129, www.ilsistina.it.
The stage of Cats will be set in Rome.
