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unusual facts about Teatro dell'Opera di Roma


Derek Deane

As a dancer, he eventually became a Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet, later retiring from the stage and working as Deputy Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Artistic Director of English National Ballet 1993-2001.


Blagoj Nacoski

In February 2003 he made his operatic debut as Arturo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the stage of Rome Opera House (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma) with Maestro Daniel Oren.

Félia Litvinne

During the course of the next three decades she appeared at the Academy of Music in New York, at the Paris Opera, at La Scala in Milan, at the Rome Opera, at La Fenice in Venice, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London and at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.

Gianna Galli

In 1961 Galli created the role of Catherine in the world premiere of Roberto Rossellini's Uno sguardo dal ponte,which was based on Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.

Italo Tajo

In 1939, he was back in Italy, where he became a member of the Rome Opera, in 1942 taking part in the Italian premiere of Berg's Wozzeck.

Lucio Gregoretti

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Solistes Européens (Luxembourg), Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, ISCM Buchartest, Festival Pergolesi-Spontini (Jesi), Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti (Naples), Progetto Sonora (Cologne), Todi Music Fest (Todi), Klangspectrum (Villach); and they are regularly performed worldwide in contemporary music festivals.

Oksana Dyka

She won the 2003 Marseilles International Opera competition which lead to her performance as Tosca at the National Opera of Montpellier in 2005, a role which she sang again that year at the Estonian National Opera opposite Sergei Leiferkus as Scarpia, at the Dalhalla Opera Festival in Sweden; in 2008 she sang that role at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and at the Arena di Verona.

Viminal Hill

A finger-shape cusp pointing toward central Rome between the Quirinal Hill to the northwest and the Esquiline Hill to the southeast, it is home to the Teatro dell'Opera and the Termini Railway Station.


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