Search / Filter EventsTeatro Nuovo: 200th Year of Italian Opera in America
July 11, 2026 - July 16, 2026
It was meant to be, and yet it was still crazy: four Spanish and four Italian singers, with a fifth Italian to help out as an administrative and musical factotum, crossed the Atlantic to recruit an orchestra and chorus in the New World and bring Europe’s premier artistic product, Italian opera, to a city that had never seen it.
Images: Ricardo José Rivera in Anna di Resburgo; Vincent Graña and Mattia Venni in Crispino e la Comare. Photo credit: Steven Pisano
Graphics: Il Don Giovanni from the handwriting of Lorenzo da Ponte; Il Turco in Italia from the handwriting of Gioachino Rossini
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