Giovanni Antonini

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.

Mozart’s Così fan tutte returns to Teatro alla Scala in this January 2021 performance, streamed during the pandemic under the musical direction of Giovanni Antonini. The production revives Michael Hampe’s traditional staging, with Lorenza Cantini overseeing the revival and Mauro Pagano’s elegant, Neapolitan-inspired sets and costumes. The opera’s intricate comedy of fidelity, disguise and romantic deception unfolds through the experiment orchestrated by Don Alfonso, testing the love of two young couples. The cast features Eleonora Buratto as Fiordiligi, Emily d’Angelo as Dorabella, Bogdan Volkov as Ferrando, Alessio Arduini as Guglielmo, Federica Guida as Despina and Pietro Spagnoli as Don Alfonso.

“Morning,” “Noon,” “Evening”: a day set to music by Joseph Haydn. Italian conductor Giovanni Antonini and his ensemble Il Giardino Armonico perform the Austrian composer’s symphonic trilogy in the sumptuous Haydn Hall of the Esterházy Palace in Austria, the very place where it was first performed. More than 250 years later, a true alchemy unfolds in this historic setting between the musicians and the three works.

When a monument of sacred music resonates in a spectacular architectural setting: the Orchestra and Choir of the Gran Teatre del Liceu deliver a grandiose performance of Mozart's ‘Requiem’ within the walls of Barcelona's Sagrada Família.

Based on director Aureliano Amadei's 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty-eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian military peace mission.