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Gala Verdiano
213th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor James Conlon
ORCHESTRA FILARMONICA TOSCANINI
CHORUS OF TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA
Chorus Master Martino Faggiani
Date – Saturday 10 October 2026, 8:30 pm
Teatro Regio di Parma
Program and cast
Il Corsaro, Act II
Tragic melodrama in three acts and seven tableaux on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after The Corsair by George Byron.
First performance on 25 October 1848 at the Teatro Grande in Trieste.
Music GIUSEPPE VERDI
Critical edition edited by Elizabeth Hudson, The University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi
Gulnara Alessia Panza*
Eunuch, A slave Carlo Raffaelli
Seid Daniel Luis de Vicente
Corrado Galeano Salas
Giovanni Agostino Subacchi*
*former students of the Accademia Verdiana
Il Guarany, Overture
Opera-ballet, on a libretto by Antonio Scalvini and Carlo d’Ormeville, after the novel O Guarani by José de Alencar.
First performance on 19 March 1870 at Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
Music ANTÔNIO CARLOS GOMES
Jérusalem, Act III Scene I
Grand Opéra in four acts on a libretto by Temistocle Solera with the French translation by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz.
First performance on 26 November 1847 at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
Music GIUSEPPE VERDI
Critical edition edited by Jürgen Selk, The University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi, Milan
An Officer of the Emir Carlo Raffaelli
The Emir of Ramla Agostino Subacchi*
Hélène Alessia Panza*
Gaston Galeano Salas
The Count of Toulouse Daniel Luis de Vicente
*former students of the Accademia Verdiana
Made possible by the generous support of International Friends of Festival Verdi
Teatro Regio di Parma
The Teatro Regio di Parma, originally constructed as the Nuovo Teatro Ducale (New Ducal Theatre), is an opera house and opera company in Parma, Italy.
Replacing an obsolete house, the new Ducale achieved prominence in the years after 1829, and especially so after the composer Giuseppe Verdi, who was born nearBusseto, some thirty kilometres away, had achieved fame. Also well known in Parma was the conductor Arturo Toscanini, was born there in 1867.
As has been noted by Lee Marshall, "while not as well known as La Scala in Milan or La Fenice in Venice, the city’s Teatro Regio....is considered by opera buffs to be one of the true homes of the great Italian tradition, and the well-informed audience is famous for giving voice to its approval or disapproval – not just from the gallery."
The 1,400-seat auditorium, with four tiers of boxes topped by a gallery, was inaugurated on 16 May 1829 when it presented the premiere of Vincenzo Bellini's Zaira, a production which was staged another seven times, although it did not prove to be popular with the Parma audiences. Initially Rossini had been invited to compose a work for the inauguration of the house, but he was too busy and so the task fell to Bellini. However, that inaugural season saw three Rossini operas staged, including Moïse et Pharaon, Semiramide, and Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Today, the company stages about four operas each season from mid January to April and, since 2003, it has presented an annual Verdi Festival each October.
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