The traditional programming of the Venice New year’s Eve suggests like first appointment the New  years concert at la Fenice Theatre, as usual live at RAI UNO, the 1 st of January 2008. 
The performance will be conduct by the italian Director Roberto Abbano, considered one of the best international directors. His predecessors were, in 2006 Kurt Musur and in 2007 the japanese director Kazushi Ono.
The Soloists are: Marcello Giordani, Barbara Frittoli and Ferruccio Furlanetto.
The Musics are by Verdi, Puccini, Rossini

FindyourEvents proposes for the occasion a turistic package that includes:

• 5th/7th category seat in gallery / loggione / side box seats nr 3/4, IV and V order;
• nr.1 night in 3 stars  superior hotel like Casanova, All´ Angelo, la Fenice et des Artistes or similar.

There are other kind of tickets and oh hotels too.
the same packages are availeble for the 30 and 31 of December.

A wide selection of OPERA stage play

TURANDOT, Venice at Teatro  La Fenice
December: 13, 14.
The package: Ticket in 6th category in gallery a/o loggione; nr. 1 night 4 stars hotel -  in double room in b/b.

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, Milan at Teatro La Scala
January  2008:  2 - December  2007:  7, 11, 16, 23, 28.
the package: Ticket in gallery 7° category (restricted view); nr. 1 night in 3 stars hotel - double room in b/b.

MARIA STUARDA, Milan at Teatro La Scala
January 2008: 15, 18, 20, 22, 26, 30 - February: 7.
the package: Ticket in gallery 7° category (restricted view); nr. 1 night in 3 stars hotel - double room in b/b.

OPERA - BALLET

IL LAGO DEI CIGNI in Milan at Teatro La Scala
December 2007: 14; 15; 18; 19; 21.
the package: Ticket in gallery 7° category (restricted view);  nr. 1 night in 3 stars - double room in b/b.

OPERA - NEW YEARS’ EVE

GALA CAJKAVSKIJ - in Milan at Teatro La Scala
31.12.2007 - 01.01.2008
The package: 7th Category Ticket ; nr. 1 night in 3/4 stars - double room in b/b.

NEW YEAR’S EVE in Vienna at MusikVerein Theatre
29.12.2007 -  02.01.2008
The package: 1st Category Ticket; nr. 4 nights in 4 stars Hotel - double room in b/b.

Venice at La Fenice Theatre
December: 30, 31 - January 1
The package: Ticket, nr 1 Night in 3/4 stars - double room in b/b.

The Medieval legend of the mythical indissoluble adultery, transformed by Wagner into a decadent mystery with a harmonic music, en route to the infinite. This is Tristan und Isolde that will open the La Scala 2007/2008 season.

Findyourevents.com propose different packages for the date: 11, 16, 23, 28, 02 of December.

The packages include: Ticket in gallery 7° category (restricted view). Nr. 1 night in 3/4 stars hotel - Milan city centre - Rate per person in double room in b/b.  
Some tickets are available in gallery between 4th and 6th category, or in box between 2nd and 5th Category, or in parterre a/o best seats in box 1st Category too.

If you are in Milan and you would like breathing the atmosphere of the most important italian opera house, www.findyourevents.com propose two perfoemances very interesting at La Scala Theatre.
Così fan tutte an opera buffa by W. A. Mozart: apparently, it has a misogynist and traditional plot, but in reality the work is more complex and grown: Mozart knows the limts of expactancy and illusions. This opera is certanly  actual and it will give you a subject of discussion.

Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi: although he refused to compose circumstantial music during his long carrier, on two occasions he made exceptions to this rule, planning the composition of a mass to honour the passing of two great figures of the Italian cultural scene of the time: Alessandro Manzoni and Gioacchino Rossini.

Both the packages include one night in Hotel, verify the date and the offers.

Every year we hope the New year’s Eve will be a wonderfull night, but duly our expectations are not sadisfied. 
For all opera lovers we propose two exclusive experiences that will deny the popular belif.

The first is at the Musikverein in Vienna: New Years Eve - Conductor: George Pretres
It has long been a Philharmonic tradition at the New Year to present a program consisting of the lively and at the same time nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the Johann Strauss family and its contemporaries.
These concerts not only delight the audiences in the Musikverein in Vienna, but also enjoy great international popularity through the world wide television broadcasts, which now reach over 50 countries.

The second at the La Sacala Theater in Milan: New Years Eve - Gala Cajkovskij
A showcase for the La Scala étoiles and the most prestigious international companies. Extracts from Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, with some of the most famous and difficult choreographic moments; a true test for the Ballet Company and its guests stars.

For more information about this packages look our site: www.findyourevents.com

10 mounths of concerts, operas and ballets and they are all italian prima; eleven title: 9 operas and 2 ballest. The choice has been executed between famous repertoire and new proposal, considering titles absent for a long time from Genova too. The season turns out centered on the great season romantic European (Italian, French and Russian) with two presences XX century of mach various spirit and capacity. The heart season is the big european romantic season. Contemporary music finally returns to appear in the billboard of our Theatre with one proposed eccentric, innovative, thaT it will not lack to attract to curiosity and attentions.

Some of the operas of the seasons are:
- I VESPRI SICILIANI October 2007;
- GISELLE December 2007;
- IL TROVATORE March 2008;
- LA SONNAMBULA April and May 2008;
- ROMEO E GIULIETTA June 2008.

Ten operas, five of which are new productions realised in co-production with important opera theatres, the arrival of Gianandrea Noseda in the new prestigious role of Musical Director, the presence of the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow for a month, an increase of 13.5% in the number of performances and the continuation of RegioneInTour, the successful opera tour realised together with the Piedmont Region. The Teatro Regio is increasing and strengthening its artistic, organisational and production capacities thanks to a reverse trend on the part of the Italian government, the passion of our audiences — who continue to sell out the hall of the Regio — the partnership with local administrations for the development of specific projects, the steadfast presence of Teatro Regio Foundation Partners and the particularly lavish commitment of Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT and Gruppo Fondiaria Sai, which, for the fourth year running is a partner in the inaugural evening.

Falstaff, the last immortal masterpiece of Giuseppe Verdi, will inaugurate the 2007-2008 Season on 7 October (with performances through 24/10) and will have as interpreters authentic stars like Ruggero Raimondi — the unforgettable protagonist of numerous important performances — Barbara Frittoli, Francesco Meli and Natale De Carolis. On the podium of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio, maestro Gianandrea Noseda, in his first opera production as Musical Director. The production is by Pier Luigi Pizzi, responsible for the direction, sets and costumes.

… To coincide with the 150th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini’s birth, the Season will conclude in June (25/6 – 6/7) with an opera by the Tuscan composer that merits rediscovery: Edgar, which will be presented, in the first modern performance, in the original four-act version. This important event will see the involvement of José Cura, who has accepted with his usual enthusiasm to tackle this new undertaking, Amarilli Nizza, Julia Gertseva and Marco Vratogna. On the podium, the conductor Lü Jia. The new staging, produced in collaboration with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Teatro Bellini di Catania, is by Lorenzo Mariani.

Franz Kafka was also a man with great humour. To describe his indifference to opera, he would confess to his friend Max Brod that he couldn’t find any difference between Tristan und Isolde and The Merry Widow. It is truly odd that the 2007-2008 Scala Season should open with one and end with the other. It is to Kafka’s credit.
It is one of the mysteries of music that Tristan, which marks the beginning of musical modernity, went on stage forty years before The Merry Widow, a title full of sentimental lightness. The language of music goes back and forth, transforms and renews itself, and never forgets to return to past. At first glance it seems strange that The Merry Widow is an operetta dating from the beginning of the 20th century, while the profound Tristan still completely belongs to the 19th century. There are operas that from their creation on look towards the future. Besides Tristan, there is for instance Verdi’s Macbeth, which will be showing again in 2008: modernity has a long lasting strength.
What can we say about our 2007-2008 season, framed by a serious opera and an operetta? Is it modern or traditional? Discover it together, reading the playbill:

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On Sunday 1 July, at 9.15 pm, on the open stage of the 85th Opera Festival at the Arena di Verona, Aida returns in a new production that had its first night one week ago. Giampiero Solari, as director, and Sergio Tramonti, as stage and costume designer, have brought a new and engaging interpretation to Verdi’s masterpiece, immediately winning over the public. (more…)

Thaïs is an opera in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France. It was first performed at the Opéra in Paris on March 16, 1894.

Set in Roman Egypt, the story concerns a Cenobite monk, Athanaël, who attempts to convert Thaïs, a courtesan of Alexandria and devotée of Venus, to Christianity, but discovers, too late, that his obsession with her is rooted in lust. It has been described as bearing a kind of religious eroticism and has spawned many controversial productions.

In October, at Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Thais will play, buy now your ticket …