Puccini’s ‘Viennese’ Opera
Metropolitan Opera guest conductor
Speranza Scappucci
illustrates La Rondine.
In conversation with
Harvey Sachs
Speranza Scappucci opened 2022 making history as the first Italian woman to conduct at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. With the following house debuts at Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, at State Opera in Berlin and at Opera national de Paris she consolidated her position as one of the most interesting conductors of her generation on the international scene. From the 25/26 season, she will be Principal Guest Conductor at the Royal Opera House in London.
With Donizetti´s DON PASQUALE, Speranza opens the 23/24 season at Opéra national de Paris in Palais Garnier. Immediately after she will make her house debut at the Chicago Lyric Opera with another Donizetti opera: LA FILLE DU REGIMENT. Later in the season, Speranza will return to the Berlin State Opera to conduct LA TRAVIATA and she will make her house debut at the Opera de Montecarlo with CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and GIANNI SCHICCHI. She will also return to the MET with a production of Puccini´s LA RONDINE and to the Washington National Opera with Puccini´s TURANDOT.
Harvey Sachs, writer and music historian, has published twelve books, of which there are now more than seventy editions in seventeen languages.
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