For the third title of the Opera Season, the Sociale has chosen one of Verdi’s best-loved titles: Rigoletto. It is directed by Matteo Marziano Graziano, a young Berlin-based avant-garde opera director known for his innovative and transformative artistic approach. With a deep knowledge of contemporary performance, installation art and experimental music theatre, Graziano has established himself as a visionary queer choreographer, theatre director, performer and interdisciplinary artist. The director will stage a contemporary Rigoletto.

Così fan tutte closes the Mozart-Da Ponte triptych in Mario Martone’s memorable stagings: the legendary version of Mozart’s great masterpiece staged in Naples in 1999 will be presented.

Based on Shakespeare's tragedy, I Capuleti e i Montecchi was composed by Vincenzo Bellini in yet another meeting with librettist Felice Romani. Bellini reserved the part of Romeo for a mezzo-soprano voice, tracing a tradition of en travesti roles. Wearing the role will be the Brescian mezzo-soprano Annalisa Stroppa, an assiduous performer of the role of Romeo and a frequent protagonist on European stages.