Francesco Izzo is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. His research focuses primarily on nineteenth-century Italian opera. He has published numerous articles in leading academic journals and various collections of essays, often focusing on the work of Giuseppe…
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The third title of XX Festival Verdi, beautifully entitles Sparks of Opera, will be Ernani, with Michele Mariotti, who is conducting for the first time this work, on the podium of Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini and the Choir of Teatro Regio…
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WenMeng Gu was born on September 4th, 1992, in ChengDu, the People’s Republic of China, in a family of musicians. When she was younger, she could often hear her father, who was a tenor, give singing lessons to students in…
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Roberto Abbado, awarded the prestigious “Premio Abbiati” by the Italian Music Critics Association, is Musical Director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia and, from 2018, of Parma’s Festival Verdi. He studied orchestra conducting under Franco Ferrara…
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Candida Mantica is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southampton, and the Managing Editor of the Edizione Critica delle Opere di Vincenzo Bellini (Casa Ricordi). She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Musicology from the University of Pavia/Cremona and…
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