17 – 18 December 2016
Volkswagen Arena

Belcanto is a musical theater show that pays tribute to the particular Italian bel canto vocal style that through different ways and forms of music has crossed the centuries going beyond national borders up to the present day. The show uses six different thematic areas to trace the key stages that marked the history of the Italian bel canto:

1. The origins of bel canto, from Renaissance to Baroque
2. The Opera Buffa in the Italian and European eighteenth century
3. Giuseppe Verdi
4. Giacomo Puccini
5. The Neapolitan Song
6. The bel canto in the world

The theater audience will be conducted on an imaginary journey that starts from the Florence of Lorenzo De’ Medici and the Venice of Claudio Monteverdi, to arrive in London with Freddie Mercury and Queen, passing through the great composers of the opera repertoire, the Austrian and French operettas, the Anglo-American musical, up to pop and rock.