After the summer break, Fenice’s programme will start again with a series of events not to be missed. Starting with the production of  Turandot, Giacomo Puccini’s last masterpiece, which will close the celebrations dedicated to the composer from Lucca in the year of the centenary of his death. The performance will be performed in a production directed by Cecilia Ligorio and under the baton of Francesco Ivan Ciampa, at the head of a cast composed of Saioa Hernandez, Roberto Aronica, Selene Zanetti and Michele Pertusi in the main roles. The premiere on Friday 30 August 2024 at 7 p.m. will be followed by four performances: on 3, 8, 14 and 18 September 2024, all at 7 p.m.

This will be followed by the Luigi Nono’s La fabbrica illuminata and Arnold Schönberg’s Erwartung: this, too, will be an opportunity to celebrate a double anniversary, the 150th anniversary of Arnold Schönberg’s birth and the 100th anniversary of Luigi Nono’s birth, the two great masters of modern music. It will be a new production directed by Daniele Abbado, with sound direction by Alvise Vidolin and musical direction by Jérémie Rhorer. Five performances are scheduled at the Teatro La Fenice, on 13, 15, 17, 19 and 22 September 2024.

A new production of Gian Francesco Malipiero’s Vita è sogno, directed by Valentino Villa and conductor by Francesco Lanzillotta, will close the 2023-2024 opera season. It will sing by Riccardo Zanellato, Leonardo Cortellazzi, Simone Alberghini and Veronica Simeoni. The opera will be staged at the Teatro Malibran on 31 October, 3, 5, 7, 10 November 2024.

The Symphonic Season will conclude with two concerts: Alfonso Caiani & La Fenice Choir will perform the symphonic psalm in three parts Le Roi David by Arthur Honegger in the original version of 1921: this concert is scheduled at the Teatro La Fenice on Saturday 28 September at 8.00 p.m. (S turn) and Sunday 29 September at 5.00 p.m.

Finally, Juanjo Mena, conducting the Teatro La Fenice Orchestra, will play Witold Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra and the virtuosic Rach3, Sergej Rachmaninov’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D minor Op. 30, which will be played in the solo part by Nicolò Cafaro, winner of the thirty-eighth Venice “Premio Venezia”. There will be three repeats of the concert: the first on Friday 18 October at 8.00 p.m. (S turn) will be broadcast live on Rai Radio3; this will be followed by a repeat performance on Saturday 19 October at 8.00 p.m. and one on Sunday 20 October at 5.00 p.m., reserved for the under-35s as part of the La Fenice è giovane project.