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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.

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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
ORCHESTRA DEL TEATRO SAVOIA — Orchestra
CORO ACOM, MOLISE — Chorus
GENNARO CONTINILLO — Chorus Master

CAST

Suor Angelica

Jiarui Mao — Suor Angelica
Celine Juhyung Lee — La zia principessa
Amelia DeCoster — La badessa
Hilary Baboukis — La suora zelatrice, Cercatricia
Monica Camafreita — La maestra delle novizie
Gigi Lin — Suor Genovieffa, Conversa
Carolina Pinho — Suor Osmina, Cercatricia
Laura De Felice — Suor Dolcina
Yi Liu — La suora infermiera, Conversa
Emily Tate Daniel — La novizia

Gianni Schicchi

Landula Hambile — Gianni Schicchi
Carolina Pinho — Lauretta
Mairin Srygley — Zita
Adriano Gulino — Rinuccio
Guido Bernoni — Gherardo
Monica Camafreita — Nella
Alessandro Continillo — Gherardino
Federico Masi — Betto di Signa
Silvio Riccardi — Simone
Sergio Campobasso — Marco
Emily Tate Daniel — La Ciesca
Gianluca Nerone — Spinneloccio, Notaio
David Santiago — Pinellino, Guccio

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