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All the productions staged during the years

La Traviata

From "La dame aux camélias" to "La Taviata" - the risky undertaking of Giuseppe Verdi

Aida

On December 24th 1871 made its debut at Cairo the great opera on the banks of the Nile, composed by Giuseppe Verdi

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

"Almaviva" that is "The Useless Precaution" with an original libretto seted to music by the up-and-coming young composer

Nabucco

On March 9th 1842 the Milanese public attended the première of the opera and was completely captivated. Nabucco allowed Verdi to become one of the most admired and loved musicians of his era

La Bohéme

A gentle love story, and heart-rending ending which never fail to reduce the audience to tears

Roméo et Juliette

After the first performance in 1867 at Theatre Lyrique in Paris, many changes has been done for the renewd stage design in 1873 at Opéra-Comique

Madama Butterfly

The much awaited première was staged on February 17th, 1904 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. It was a total flop, defined by Puccini himself as "a real lynching".

Carmen

On March 3rd 1875, Carmen was staged at the Opéra-Comique in Paris: an opera which broke the tradition of this genre and which had to be presented to an audience which was very much unprepared

Il Trovatore

Il Trovatore is one of the three great operas with which Giuseppe Verdi reached his full artistic maturity and was recognized as the greatest Italian composer of the 1800s.