FULL VILLA BELCANTO (Pastiche) Parma 2026 Anna-Helena Maclachlan, Mariam Suleiman, Benjamin Gautier, Charles Buttigieg

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Villa Belcanto  
• Composer: various  
• Libretto: Federico Grazzini    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Regio di Parma, Italy  
• Recorded: May 30, 2026
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Anna-Helena Maclachlan, Mariam Suleiman, Benjamin Gautier, Charles Buttigieg, Ferdinand Muradyan, Taylor Wallbank, Vuyisa Xipu
• Conductor: Wyn Davies  
• Orchestra: Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna  
• Stage Director: Federico Grazzini  
• Stage Designer: Anna Bonomelli  
• Costume Designer: Anna Bonomelli   
• Lighting Designer: Giuseppe Di lorio  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: OperaVision  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: desubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  The performance takes shape as a new musical dramaturgy, weaving together scenes, arias and duets from different operas into a single narrative journey, designed to showcase the stagecraft and musical talent of a new generation of performers.

  Set in a luxury clinic poised somewhere between the 1920s and the 1940s, Villa Belcanto emerges as the transformation of a place of memory: no longer merely a private, idealised space, but a shared environment inhabited by a community in which youth, maturity and old age coexist and mirror one another. Within this ambiguous setting, what is meant to heal and protect also reveals itself as a mechanism of organisation, hierarchy and control.

  The performance unfolds as a sequence of musical tableaux in which individual memory gradually opens onto a collective dimension, and in which the characters move through desire, vulnerability, rivalry, crisis and the possibility of renewal.

  From Donizetti to Tchaikovsky, and on to Handel, the musical fabric accompanies this gradual shift in perspective, shaping an ensemble narrative in which intimacy and tension, discipline and disorientation, community and solitude coexist.

  Villa Belcanto thus becomes a symbolic space in which the past resurfaces, the present is distorted, and each character is called to confront their own limits, fears and desires.

  Quoted from https://mascaradeopera.com

  Programme

  Act I

  Slavonic Dance Op. 46 No. 1 in C major by Antonín Dvořák

  ​​​‘​Quoi! Vous m’aimez?’​​​​​​ from La Fille du Régiment by Gaetano Donizetti
  Mariam Suleiman (Marie)
  Vuyisa Xipu (Tonio)

  ‘​Ma de’ malvagi invan sul capo mio… Vien, Leonora’​​​​​​ from La Favorita by Gaetano Donizetti
  Charles Buttigieg (Alfonso)
  Anna-Helena Maclachlan (Leonora)

  ‘​Kuda, kuda’​​​​​​, ‘​A vót oní…vragí, vragí…’​​​​​​ from Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Taylor Wallbank (Lensky)
  Benjamin Gautier (Onegin)
  Ferdinand Muradyan (Zaretsky)

  Act II

  ‘​Dopo notte’​​​​​​, ‘​Manca, oh Dei! La mia costanza’​​​​​​, ​​​​​​​‘​Bramo di mille vite’​​​​​​ from Ariodante by George Frideric Handel
  Mariam Suleiman (Ginevra)
  Anna-Helena Maclachlan (Ariodante)

  Act II from Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti
  Mariam Suleiman (Norina / Sofronia)
  Vuyisa Xipu (Ernesto)
  Charles Buttigieg (Notaro)
  Benjamin Gautier (Dottor Malatesta)
  Ferdinand Muradyan (Don Pasquale)

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