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unusual facts about Teatro Regio



Alexandrina Pendatchanska

Pendatchanska performed the title role of Esclarmonde at Teatro Regio in Turin in November 1992 at the age of 22, at which time she was even younger than that of Sybil Sanderson, who created the infamously difficult role at age 24.


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Elio Battaglia

Battaglia’s teaching was so influential that for the 1991-1992 opera season’s opening night at Teatro Regio in Torino, Conductor Maurizio Benini cast Humperdinck’s “Hansel und Gretel” entirely from Battaglia’s studio of singers.

Wo die Zitronen blühen

The waltz was composed during a tour of the composer in Italy where he travelled with the Langenbach Orchestra of Germany and performed the work at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 9 May 1874.