Sept. 9 – “Nessun dorma …” will fill the London air, as Puccini’s Turnadot opens the Covent Garden season tonight. Co-starring in the role of Calaf, there is the Italian tenor Marco Berti, who will be directed by Andrei Serban and the conducted by Henrik Nánási. The show will be repeated in London on September 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, 24 and 28. Recently, the tenor from Como performed at the Metropolitan in New York (January 2013), at the Berlin Staatsoper in February, in Houston (April 2013), Los Angeles (May 2013), and in the Aida staged last August at the Arena di Verona, celebrating the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth. The next events will see him engaged in Italy in October at La Scala in Milan (a premier on the 25th and further performances on October 28 and 31 and November 5, 16 and 19) with the Aida conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Berti will then be at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin on December 13 and 16 with the Tosca and in February 2014 he will bring the Fanciulla del West to Opera Basille.
