2026

production Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds

in co-production with Foundation Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Fondazione Teatro Petruzzelli

music by Samuel Barber

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libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti


Publisher G. Schirmer, New York

Representative Casa Ricordi, Milan

premiere New York, Metropolitan Opera, January 15, 1958

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conductor Sora Elisabeth Lee

assistant conductor Elias Peter Brown

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stage direction Leo Muscato

sets Andrea Belli

costumes Margherita Baldoni

lights Alessandro Verazzi

choreography Simona Bucci

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Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Coro del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto

Chorus Master Mauro Presazzi

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Characters and singers

Vanessa Lauren Fagan

Erika Kayleigh Decker

The Baroness Helene Schneiderman

Anatol Lulama Taifasi

The old doctor Rod Gilfry

The butler Nicolò Lauteri

The footman Mattia Ribba

Photo by FABRIZIO SANSONI