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Mattia Venni
Opera recital
Program:
Antonio Caldara: Come raggio di sol
Gaetano Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore – Udite, udite, o rustici!
Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula – Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni
Luigi Denza: Occhi di fata
Francesco Paolo Tosti: L’ultima canzone
Renato Brogi: Visione veneziana
Ernesto de Curtis: Non ti scordar di me
Cesare Andrea Bixio: Mamma
Mattia Venni, a native of Brescia, joined Teatro Nuovo in 2023, making his professional opera debut as “a spectacular Crispino” (New York Times) in Crispino e la Comare. He has since sung Mozart’s Figaro in Sarasota, Donizetti’s Doctor Dulcamara in Rimini, and makes debuts in 2025 with the Santa Fe Opera and Opera Santa Barbara, having meanwhile won international vocal competitions in Rome, Genoa, and Rieti.
Teatro Nuovo – Italian for “new theater” – is a young organization devoted to cutting-edge interpretation of classic Italian opera. Since its debut in 2018 Teatro Nuovo has presented eleven operas by Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Ricci, and Mayr, culminating in the modern premiere of Carolina Uccelli’s Anna di Resburgo, which made the New York Times list of the 20 best Classical events for the year.
Will Crutchfield, Teatro Nuovo’s General Director, has conducted opera throughout the U.S. and abroad, with appearances at the Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro), Washington National Opera, the Polish National Opera, the Opera de Colombia, Minnesota Opera, the Warsaw Philharmonic, and many others. Concurrently he has been a leading scholar of 19th-century opera, publishing with The Grove Dictionaries of Music, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Opera News, and multiple academic journals. His main activity throughout, however, has centered on the training of young singers, first at the Caramoor International Music Festival and since 2018 at Teatro Nuovo.
This is the first of a series of events organized in collaboration with
Teatro Nuovo and Will Crutchfield
The second will take place on May 14, further dates TBA.
(Mattia Venni, Crispino e la Comare, photo credit Stephen Pisano.)