Rome's summer opera season normally takes place at the Baths of Caracalla - since 1937 - but the historic venue was ruled out definitively for being "incompatible" with Italy's covid-19 social distancing rules.įor full details about the summer 2020 opera season, including tickets, see Teatro dell'Opera di Roma website.Ĭover photo: Kimberly Ross / Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. Opera fans can also to look forward to Le Quattro Stagioni, a ballet based on Vivaldi's Four Seasons (25 July-3 Aug), and Omaggio a Roma, with stars Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov (6-9 Aug). Rome opera house cancels summer season at Baths of Caracalla.The programme includes The Barber of Seville (22 July-13 Aug) and The Merry Widow (31 July-12 Aug), both of which will be conducted by Stefano Montanari. Rigoletto with Roberto Frontali and Gilda Rosa Feola. The opera festival under the stars will open on 16 July with a new production of Verdi's Rigoletto, conducted by Daniele Gatti, which will be broadcast on Italy's RAI 5 television channel. The amphitheater was built in the early 3rd century AD capable of seating 35,000 spectators. El Djem was formerly the Roman town of Thysdrus, one of the most important towns in North Africa after Carthage. Rome: opera under the stars at Circus Maximus Its creator has called it a 'virtual time machine' a digital reconstruction of ancient Rome that today became available to hundreds of millions of internet users. The Roman amphitheater of El Djem in Tunisia is the third largest arena in the world, after Rome’s Colosseum and the ruined theater of Capua.
Rome’s opera house technical director, Francesco Arena, told Reuters news agency that the Circus Maximus is "returning in a way to its origins" by transforming itself "from a circus to a theatre, an opera house in this case." Workers are putting the final touches to a giant stage and a high raised stand with seating for a maximum of 1,400 audience members, all of whose seats are spaced wide apart to allow for social distancing. The plug was richly decorated with statues, shrines and temples, and there were seven eggs and seven dolphins from which water flowed, used to count the laps of the race. Rome's Circus Maximus, the ancient chariot racing arena, is preparing to welcome the city's summer opera festival, organised by Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, for the first time. In the arena, were held chariot races, with twelve chariots (four-horse chariot) who made seven laps around the central spine between the two destinations. Rome holds summer opera festival in 2,800-year-old Roman arena. Axa, Casal Palocco, Infernetto districts Chariot racing was therefore a highly dangerous and violent spectacle, though not as overtly brutal as arena events.
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