An Italian composer has been commissioned by Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and the Paris Opera to jot down a brand new opera based mostly on Umberto Eco’s most well-known novel, “The Title of the Rose.”
FILE – A view of La Scala opera home in Milan, Italy, on April 4, 2022. An Italian composer has been commissioned by Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and the Paris Opera to jot down a brand new opera based mostly on Umberto Eco’s famed novel “The Title of the Rose.” La Scala introduced Friday, Could 19, 2023 that the world premiere could be on the Milan opera home on April 27, 2025. La Scala’s basic supervisor Dominique Meyer referred to as the brand new fee “a vital opera.” “The Title of the Rose,” was Eco’s debut novel, a medieval thriller set in a monastery that catapulted him to worldwide superstar and was made right into a 1986 movie. (AP Photograph/Luca Bruno, File)
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MILAN — Italian composer Francesco Filidei has been commissioned by Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and the Paris Opera to jot down a brand new opera based mostly on Umberto Eco’s most well-known novel “The Title of the Rose,” the opera homes introduced Friday.
The world premiere has already been scheduled, at La Scala on April 27, 2025, performed by Ingo Metzmacher and starring mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsay and baritone Lucas Meachem.
La Scala’s basic supervisor, Dominique Meyer, referred to as the brand new fee “a vital opera.”
“The Title of the Rose” was Eco’s debut novel, a medieval thriller set in a monastery. It catapulted him to worldwide superstar and was made right into a 1986 movie starring Sean Connery. Eco died at dwelling in Milan in 2016.
Filidei is engaged on two variations, one in Italian and one in French, the second to premiere on the Paris Opera. The 50-year-old Filidei has composed two earlier operas: “Giordano Bruno,” which premiered in Porto, Portugal in 2015 and “L’inondation,” carried out through the 2019 season of the Opera Comique in Paris.