Performance is both the driving force behind Camerata Bardi International Academy’s program and the culmination of its work. Having completed a rigorous curriculum in language, style, and interpretation, our singers experience the rehearsal period as a training ground, preparing them both for the role at hand and for the professional operatic world writ large. Central to this process is learning how to apply dramatic ideas through the precise and expressive use of language — the word as meaning, color, and intention — an essential skill in verismo repertoire, where text and style are inseparable. This combination of study and stage work helps each singer develop confidence, versatility, and a personal artistic voice that translates naturally to the professional world.

Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi offer vivid explorations of interior worlds of memory and grief and exterior worlds shaped by family dynamics, money, and power. These imaginative paired productions, conducted by Stefano Teani and directed by Stefanos Koroneos, give emerging singers the space and structure to engage deeply with the operatic language of verismo — honoring the emotional force of Puccini’s music while learning how dramatic truth is carried, word by word, through text, style, and delivery.

In this approach, Suor Angelica is treated not as a museum object, but as a living work shaped by the stories of women compelled to obey, driven by love, and forced to surrender the unspeakable, in a world inhabited by memory and ghosts. Gianni Schicchi, by contrast, explores the truths and lies within relationships, exposing outsized moral and emotional dynamics contained within tight domestic spaces. Bold, campy, and confrontational, this interpretation examines questions of moral superiority and the collapse of decency — revealing how comedy, cruelty, and meaning emerge through language itself.

Sunday, September 6, 2026

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MUSIC BY

Giacomo Puccini

LIBRETTO BY

Giovacchino Forzano

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LOCATION

Teatro Savoia, Campobasso, Italy
In co-production with Teatro Savoia, Operastudio Molise, and Teatro Maria Caniglia in Sulmona

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SUNG IN

Italian

RUNNING TIME

Approximately 2 hours and 5 minutes, with a 20 minute intermission

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CREATIVE TEAM

STEFANO TEANI — Conductor
STEFANOS KORONEOS — Director
DAVID SANTIAGO — Assistant Director
To Be Announced — Set Designer
To Be Announced — Costume Designer
To Be Announced — Lighting Designer
Orchestra — Orchestra del Teatro Savoia

CAST

Cast and Cover Cast to come soon:

Suor Angelica

Suor Angelica
La zia principessa
La badessa
La suora zelatrice
La maestra delle novizie
Suor Genovieffa
Suor Osmina
Suor Dolcina
La suora infermiera
Le cercatrici
Le novizie
Le converse

Gianni Schicchi

Gianni Schicchi
Lauretta
Zita
Rinuccio
Gherardo
Nella
Gherardino
Betto di Signa
Simone
Marco
La Ciesca

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