
2026
production Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds
in co-production with Foundation Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Fondazione Teatro Petruzzelli
music by Samuel Barber
libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
Publisher G. Schirmer, New York
Representative Casa Ricordi, Milan
premiere New York, Metropolitan Opera, January 15, 1958
conductor Sora Elisabeth Lee
assistant conductor Elias Peter Brown
stage direction Leo Muscato
sets Andrea Belli
costumes Margherita Baldoni
lights Alessandro Verazzi
choreography Simona Bucci
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Coro del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto
Chorus Master Mauro Presazzi
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







































