Fondazione Arena di Verona opens the season at the Royal Opera House Muscat with “Rigoletto”

Fondazione Arena di Verona opens the season at the Royal Opera House Muscat with “Rigoletto”

Fondazione Arena di Verona opened the season at the Royal Opera House Muscat with "Rigoletto" on the 10th anniversary of the Omani opera theatre

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Rigoletto

Fondazione Arena di Verona was once more the protagonist of a great cultural event in the Sultanate of Oman, thanks to the successful reopening, following two years of pandemic silence, of the Royal Opera House Muscat for its tenth season since the Theatre’s foundation.

The prestigious co-production, whose partners also include the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and Florence’s Fondazione Zeffirelli, has as its protagonist the iconic international figure of Franco Zeffirelli, who conceived and worked for a long time on this Rigoletto, which he presented personally in 2018 at the age of 95 and which yesterday, 20^th January, finally reached its world premiere.

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Following yesterday’s first night, with a full theatre and the participation of the top authorities, Rigoletto is also being staged on Friday 21^st and Saturday 22^nd January. The production will be broadcast in prime time by Rai 5 on Friday 28^th January. On Sunday 23^rd, after the opera’s prestigious journey to Oman, the Verdi Masterpieces concert will be staged, with choral and orchestral pieces from the Busseto composer’s most famous operas.

The well-established relationship between Fondazione Arena and the Royal Opera House Muscat began with the memorable success of Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Turandot in 2011 for the Theatre’s inauguration (staged again in 2015), continued in 2014 with Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi directed by Arnaud Bernard, and again in 2018, firstly with La Sonnambula by Bellini directed by Hugo de Ana and then with the show Fuego and the gala dedicated to the Zarzuela with Plácido Domingo as its protagonist.