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SUMMER 2026 Piazza Giuseppe Verdi Saturday 18 July 2026, 9:00 PM “FESTA” A Tribute to Ezio Bosso Music and texts by Ezio Bosso Poetry by Emily Dickinson Choreography by Ambra Cadelli – GeA Danza Giulia Diomede, Actress and Mezzo-soprano Giacomo Segulia, Narrator, Paolo Caianiello, Poet Anna Somma, Dancer Daniele Bonini, Piano Dorian Dionisi, Piano Stefano […]

OPERETTA FESTIVAL 2026 DIE BAJADERE Emmerich Kálmán Adaptation in two acts by Andrea Binetti 9, 11 and 12 July DIE BAJADERE Music Director and Conductor ANDREA ALBERTIN Director ANDREA BINETTI Choreography by NOEMI GAGGI and LUCA MICLAUSIG Production of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste Characters and performers Prince Radjami – DOMENICO MENINI […]

Deputy Mayor Serena Tonel, Superintendent Giuliano Polo and Artistic Director Valerio Vicari of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste presented the touring project Note in d’Estate in Città 2026 (Summer Notes Around the City 2026) at Trieste City Hall on Monday 29 June. Following last year’s success, the Note d’Estate in Città summer […]

20 September 2026 – 19 May 2027 SYMPHONIC SEASON 2026–27 CONCERT 1 Sunday 20 September 2026 at 6.00 pm Ezio Bosso: “White Ocean”(Antarctic) Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 Conductor FRANCESCO LANZILLOTTA Piano BENEDETTO LUPO Orchestra of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di […]

From 13 November to 20 June 2027 LOHENGRIN Richard Wagner Music Director and Conductor ENRICO CALESSO Director and Set Designer ARNAUD BERNARD Associate Director YAMAL DAS IRMICH Costume designer MARIA CARLA RICOTTI Lighting Designer EMANUELE AGLIATI Video Designer SERGIO METALLI Dramaturg ANNA BORODINA New production by the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste Principal […]

2025-2026 OPERA AND BALLET SEASON ELEKTRA Richard Strauss Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, based on his tragedy Elektra. Music pub: Fürstner/Schott Representative in Italy: Casa Musicale Sonzogno di Piero Ostali, Milan Concertmaster and Conductor ENRICO CALESSO Director MARCO FILIBERTI Set Designer BENITO LEONORI Costume Designer DANIELE GELSI Lighting designer ALESSANDRO CARLETTI Video Designer MARIO SPINACI […]

LA STORIA DELLA TRAVIATA (THE STORY OF LA TRAVIATA) One-act reduction by ANDREA STANISCI (based on La Traviata by GIUSEPPE VERDI) New orchestration by EMANUELE STRACCHI Konzertmeister STEFANO FURINI Directed by ANDREA STANISCI Set and costume design by ANDREA STANISCI Lighting design by FRANCESCO SIVI A new production by the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi, […]

2025-2026 OPERA AND BALLET SEASON This June, Elektra by Richard Strauss at the Teatro Verdi di Trieste marks the important operatic debut of playwright, theatre and film director, actor, teacher and essayist, as well as novelist and poet Marco Filiberti. With his hallmark refined aesthetic, a profound understanding of musical culture, and years of work […]

2025-2026 OPERA AND BALLET SEASON MADAMA BUTTERFLY by Giacomo Puccini Music pub: E. F. Kalmus & Co., New York Conductor GIULIO PRANDI Director ALBERTO TRIOLA Set design EMANUELE GENUIZZI and STEFANO ZULLO Costume Design SARA MARCUCCI Lighting Design STEFANO CAPRA Production of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste Characters and performers Madama Butterfly […]

3 March- 19 April 2026, Victor de Sabata Hall THE MAGIC FLUTE (A fantasy in one act afterDIE ZAUBERFLÖTE) Music by WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Orchestration by PAOLA MAGNANINI One-act reduction by ANDREA BINETTI Konzertmeister STEFANO FURINI Direction, set and costume design by ANDREA BINETTI Production of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste Characters […]

2025-2026 OPERA AND BALLET SEASON IL TROVATORE (THE TROUBADOUR) by Giuseppe Verdi An opera in four acts to a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano after El trovador by Antonio Garcia Gutiérrez. First performance: Teatro Apollo, Rome, 19 January 1853 – Music Publisher: E. F. Kalmus & Co., New York Conductor JORDI BERNÀCER Director LOUIS DÉSIRÉ Set […]

2025-2026 OPERA AND BALLET SEASON AUFSTIEG UND FALL DER STADT MAHAGONNY (Rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny) by Kurt Weill Opera in three acts, libretto by Bertolt Brecht – Music Publisher: Universal Concertmaster and Conductor BEATRICE VENEZI Director HENNING BROCKHAUS Set designer MARGHERITA PALLI Costume designer GIANCARLO COLIS Light designer PASQUALE MARI Choreography […]

2025-2026 OPERA AND BALLET SEASON Petit / Wheeldon / Pastor Evening BALLET LA ROSE MALADE Music Gustav Mahler Choreography ROLAND PETIT Costumes Yves Saint Laurent Lighting Stefano Laselva PERFORMERS Eleonora Abbagnato and Giacomo Castellana WITHIN THE GOLDEN HOUR Music Ezio Bosso The Sky Seen from the Moon, Le Notti…, Of the Thunders Dance of the Tree, Worried, African […]

End of Year Concert 2025 Wednesday, 31 December 2025, 6.00 pm Conductor ENRICO CALESSO Soprano JESSICA PRATT Tenor MARCO CIAPONI Baritone GIORGIO CAODURO Music by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi, Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Giacomo Puccini, Jacques Offenbach, Franz Lehár Choir master: PAOLO LONGO Orchestra and Choir of the Fondazione Teatro Lirico […]

2025 SYMPHONIC SEASON – TEATRO G. VERDI, TRIESTE From 11 September to 23 December 2025 ******************* NOTICE! The bass role in the 8th symphonic concert – G. Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle, December 23 – will be performed by DAVIDE GIANGREGORIO. ******************* 8th Concert Tuesday 23 December 2025 – 7:30 p.m. Conductor                  GIULIO PRANDI Soprano         ALINA […]

2025-2026 OPERA AND BALLET SEASON IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (THE BARBER OF SEVILLE) by Gioachino Rossini Comic opera in two acts with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini, based on the play of the same name by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais – Premiere:  Rome, Teatro Argentina, 20 February 1816 – Music Publisher: E. F. Kalmus & […]

Victor de Sabata Hall – Ridotto del Teatro Verdi From 29 October to 12 November 2025 THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (a Fantasy in one act from LE NOZZE DI FIGARO) Music by WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART and GIOACHINO ROSSINI New Orchestration by PAOLA MAGNANINI One-act adaptation, direction and set design by ANDREA BINETTI A new production […]

2025 SYMPHONIC SEASON – TEATRO G. VERDI, TRIESTE From 11 September to 23 December 2025 ******* 7th Concert Friday 24 October 2025 – 7:30 p.m. Conductor                  ENRICO CALESSO             Violin              GIUSEPPE GIBBONI Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky       Romeo and Juliet, fantasy-overture in B minor Niccolò Paganini                   Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 7 Richard Strauss                     Aus Italien, […]