(by Luciano Fioramonti) (ANSA) - ROME, 20 JUL - The Opera of Rome led by Carlo Fuortes has been able to capitalize on the successes achieved by daring and experimenting new paths during the terrible experience of the pandemic to continue to give its audience the emotion of music, song and dance and now relaunches proposing for the next season 12 opera titles, 6 ballet titles, laBohème as a film-opera, the return in summer 2022 to the Termedi Caracalla with Mass by Leonard Bernstein never performed in Italy, and continuing to delocalize shows such as Bach's LaPassione according to Matthew which will be staged in the Nuvoladi Fuksas. The rich billboard, the latest signed by the superintendent out for the position of CEO, is precisely the synthesis of the mix of tradition and innovation that has made themusical institution of the capital a management model for artistic quality and economic return in such a difficult time. An example? "Last summer at the Circus Maximus we had reached a collection of just under one million euros. To date we are already at one million and 750 thousand euros in tickets, 75 percent more", Fuortes proudly points out, who then remarks: " For those who come after me, I leave a theater in an optimal situation from the point of view of the programs, economically, financially and organizationally ". Opening with contemporary music at the Costanzi Theater is another sign of the will to accept ambitious challenges. Thus it will be on November 20 with the world premiere of the opera Julius Caesar, commissioned to the Roman composer Giulio Battistelli, with libretto by Ian Burton, directed by RobertCarsen,which will see the musical director Daniele Gatti on the podium.
Then there will be a succession of great titles, with "the major musical theater directors present in our program", orchestra conductors and leading Italian singers from abroad. The Opera di Roma, underlines the mayor VirginiaRaggi, president of the Foundation, "has shown that it knows how to react to shocks and has won the challenge". Great attention also for the structure: the public will find the new armchairs, made on the model of the original ones (cost 500 thousand euros) after the renovation of the marble and parquet. (HANDLE).