A look at the first season of Cecilia Bartoli, new Director of the Monte-Carlo Opera
Cecilia Bartoli succeeds Jean-Louis Grinda, at the head of the prestigious institution.
On September 16, in the superb Salle Garnier, Cecilia Bartoli presented her first season as Director of the Monte-Carlo Opera. The singer will take office in January and it is a more than enticing program that will be offered for this new season.
A season that will open with Alcine. Also not to be missed: La Traviatadirected by Jean-Louis Grinda, The Marriage of Figaro or The Barber of Seville, with Cecila Bartoli herself and the Musicians of the Prince!
” It’s been a completely exceptional season, up to the expectations that we could legitimately have had with the arrival of Cecilia Bartoli. I really think everyone will be very, very happy in the Principalitydeclared Jean-Louis Grinda at the microphone of Monaco Info. What I wanted above all was for an artist to succeed me as director of this theatre. »
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” The idea is: tradition and innovation. Innovation, from the point of view of the repertoire, that is to say to perform operas that have never been performed in the Salle Garnier, but also to invite artists who have never sung in Monaco. (…) There are plenty of nice surprises “, Designated Cecilia Bartoli for her part to Monaco Info.
Complete program:
- Alcine (Opera / Georg Friedrich Handel): January 20, 22, 24 and 26, 2023
- Stabat Mater (Choir concert / Gioachino Rossini): January 25, 2023
- Andrea Chenier (Opera / Umberto Giordano): February 19, 21, 23 and 25, 2023
- Daniel Barenboim (Recital): March 10, 2023
- La Traviata (Opera / Giuseppe Verdi): March 17, 19, 21 and 23, 2023
- The Marriage of Figaro (Opera / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart): March 20, 2023
- The Barber of Seville (Opera / Gioachino Rossini): April 16, 18, 20 and 22, 2023
- The Orfeo (Opera-puppets / Claudio Monteverdi): April 17, 2023
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