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unusual facts about opera festival



Festival della Valle d'Itria

The Festival della Valle d’Itria is a summer opera festival held in the south eastern Italian town of Martina Franca in the Apulia region.

Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg

Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg is an international opera festival for young talented singers, founded and directed by German composer Siegfried Matthus.

Opera Memphis

The opera festival is organized as two additional smaller scale mainstage productions designed for intimate spaces or as chamber operas, as well as academic panels and pay-what-you-can shows and activities.


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Alfredo Nigro

Nigro 'performed at the prestigious Festival of Schubert in Schwarzenberg (Austria) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and at the Vilnius Opera Festival, Toronto Opera Festival, Saint Petersburg (Russia),Tokyo, Kyoto, Madrid and others.

Bad Wildbad

The annual Rossini in Wildbad opera festival, held in July, brings an international audience to the Kurhaus and the Kurtheater to hear belcanto works by Gioachino Rossini and his contemporaries.

Chicago Ballet

Ruth Page became the leading force of ballet in Chicago, establishing many Chicago companies with various names: Chicago Grand Opera Company, Ravinia Opera Festival, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Ballet, Ruth Page's International Ballet and Chicago Ballet, with Ben Stevenson and Larry Long as Co-Artistic directors in 1974.

Dorset Opera Festival

Dorset Opera Festival is an annual country house opera festival combining amateur and professional performers, which takes place at Bryanston near Blandford Forum in Dorset, England.

Erkki Korhonen

Becoming a lecturer at the renowned Sibelius Academy, from 1989–1997, Korhonen taught at numerous conservatories throughout Finland as well as coached for more than twenty years at the Finnish National Opera, the Savonlina Opera Festival, the Zurich Opera and most recently at the Lyric Opera Studio of Weimar.

Giancarlo del Monaco

Since 2009, he has served as the Artistic Director of the Tenerife Opera Festival.

International PuntaClassic Festival

The International PuntaClassic Festival is an opera festival in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Lismore Music Festival

Lismore Music Festival is an annual classical music and opera festival held in Lismore in the Republic of Ireland.

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.

Torre del Lago

The Festival Puccini, an annual opera festival which attracts around 40,000 attendees, is held in its open-air theatre, a short distance from the Villa where opera composer Giacomo Puccini lived and worked.