Wednesday 26, Thursday 27, Friday 28 November, 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>
Participatory Opera<\/p><\/div>
Il furioso Gaetano nell\u2019Isola di S. Domingo<\/h1><\/div>ovvero le mirabolanti memorie d\u2019un musicista visionario<\/em><\/h1><\/div><\/div>PRIMARY AND LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS<\/strong><\/p>\nParticipatory Opera, reduced and adapted for young audiences based on Donizetti’s Il furioso nell\u2019isola di S. Domingo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/www.donizettiopera.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Donizetti-Opera-Copertia-Furioso-Gaetano-ovvero-LE-MIRABOLANTI-MEMORIE-DUN-MUSICISTA-VISIONARIO.webp\" "\\"Donizetti")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>CAST
\n<\/strong>Music by Gaetano Donizetti<\/strong>
\nMusic dramaturgy Alberto Zanardi<\/strong>
\nIn collaboration with Mariagrazia Mercaldo<\/strong>
\nConductor Giulio Arnofi<\/strong>
\nDirector Manuel Renga<\/strong><\/p>\nDonizetti Opera Ensemble<\/strong>
\nIn collaboration with the Orchestra del Mare<\/strong><\/p>\nDESCRIPTION
\n<\/strong>Maestro Gaetano Donizetti, aged and struck by madness, is in a nursing home in a small French village; an Italian servant named Sancio has been assigned to care for him. He no longer concerns himself with music, living alone, isolated, with a vacant stare. When he regains some strength, he locks himself in his room and reads, writes, talks to himself… No one knows how to help him anymore! One spring day, Sancio takes advantage of the door left open by his master and listens to him: Donizetti talks about his works, his stories, his music… and as he does so, for a moment, his eyes light up again. Then an idea forms in Sancio’s mind: why not recover one of the maestro’s works, written long ago, and try to use it to restore him to his former vitality? Il furioso nell’isola di S. Domingo (The Madman on the Island of St. Domingo)<\/em> is just what he needs.
\nListening to the overture, as if by magic, everything comes back to him and reality, memory and fantasy intermingle. Two actors and five singers will tell this bizarre, adventurous, dangerous and entertaining story.
\nIt is a story about the dangers of being alone, how love and friendship can heal all wounds, about acceptance and imagination.
\nIn the end, the Maestro realises that only with the help of Sancho, now considered his faithful squire and friend, can he remember the ending of the story and perhaps change it!
\n\u2018In the kingdom of fantasy, Sancho, anything is possible!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\nTEACHERS TRAINING DAY
\n<\/strong><\/b>Saturday 18 October, 2025 | from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Teatro Donizetti
\n<\/strong><\/b>Free training course led by the director and the educational office, during which all teachers (not only those teaching music) will be introduced to the opera and the activities that will make the students the protagonists of the show, through songs, costumes and objects made in class.<\/p>\nFAMILY OPERA PERFORMANCE
\n<\/strong><\/b>Saturday 29 November, 2025 | 3:30 PM (workshop at 2:30 PM) | Teatro Donizetti
\n<\/strong><\/b>For information and to purchase your ticket, see the title in the Opera Family section at this link<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Info<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>Date<\/p><\/div>
November 26, 2025 \u2013 9:30 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>
Primary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>November 27, 2025 \u2013 9:30 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>
Primary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>November 28, 2025 \u2013 11:00 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>
Primary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>November 26, 2025 \u2013 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Lower secondary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>November 27, 2025 \u2013 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Lower secondary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>
ovvero le mirabolanti memorie d\u2019un musicista visionario<\/em><\/h1><\/div><\/div>PRIMARY AND LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS<\/strong><\/p>\nParticipatory Opera, reduced and adapted for young audiences based on Donizetti’s Il furioso nell\u2019isola di S. Domingo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>CAST
\n<\/strong>Music by Gaetano Donizetti<\/strong>
\nMusic dramaturgy Alberto Zanardi<\/strong>
\nIn collaboration with Mariagrazia Mercaldo<\/strong>
\nConductor Giulio Arnofi<\/strong>
\nDirector Manuel Renga<\/strong><\/p>\nDonizetti Opera Ensemble<\/strong>
\nIn collaboration with the Orchestra del Mare<\/strong><\/p>\nDESCRIPTION
\n<\/strong>Maestro Gaetano Donizetti, aged and struck by madness, is in a nursing home in a small French village; an Italian servant named Sancio has been assigned to care for him. He no longer concerns himself with music, living alone, isolated, with a vacant stare. When he regains some strength, he locks himself in his room and reads, writes, talks to himself… No one knows how to help him anymore! One spring day, Sancio takes advantage of the door left open by his master and listens to him: Donizetti talks about his works, his stories, his music… and as he does so, for a moment, his eyes light up again. Then an idea forms in Sancio’s mind: why not recover one of the maestro’s works, written long ago, and try to use it to restore him to his former vitality? Il furioso nell’isola di S. Domingo (The Madman on the Island of St. Domingo)<\/em> is just what he needs.
\nListening to the overture, as if by magic, everything comes back to him and reality, memory and fantasy intermingle. Two actors and five singers will tell this bizarre, adventurous, dangerous and entertaining story.
\nIt is a story about the dangers of being alone, how love and friendship can heal all wounds, about acceptance and imagination.
\nIn the end, the Maestro realises that only with the help of Sancho, now considered his faithful squire and friend, can he remember the ending of the story and perhaps change it!
\n\u2018In the kingdom of fantasy, Sancho, anything is possible!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\nTEACHERS TRAINING DAY
\n<\/strong><\/b>Saturday 18 October, 2025 | from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Teatro Donizetti
\n<\/strong><\/b>Free training course led by the director and the educational office, during which all teachers (not only those teaching music) will be introduced to the opera and the activities that will make the students the protagonists of the show, through songs, costumes and objects made in class.<\/p>\nFAMILY OPERA PERFORMANCE
\n<\/strong><\/b>Saturday 29 November, 2025 | 3:30 PM (workshop at 2:30 PM) | Teatro Donizetti
\n<\/strong><\/b>For information and to purchase your ticket, see the title in the Opera Family section at this link<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Info<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>Date<\/p><\/div>
November 26, 2025 \u2013 9:30 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>
Primary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>November 27, 2025 \u2013 9:30 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>
Primary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>November 28, 2025 \u2013 11:00 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>
Primary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>November 26, 2025 \u2013 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Lower secondary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>November 27, 2025 \u2013 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Lower secondary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>
PRIMARY AND LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS<\/strong><\/p>\n Participatory Opera, reduced and adapted for young audiences based on Donizetti’s Il furioso nell\u2019isola di S. Domingo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> CAST Donizetti Opera Ensemble<\/strong> DESCRIPTION TEACHERS TRAINING DAY FAMILY OPERA PERFORMANCE Date<\/p><\/div> November 26, 2025 \u2013 9:30 AM<\/p>\n<\/div> Primary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div> November 27, 2025 \u2013 9:30 AM<\/p>\n<\/div> Primary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div> November 28, 2025 \u2013 11:00 AM<\/p>\n<\/div> Primary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div> November 26, 2025 \u2013 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/div> Lower secondary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div> November 27, 2025 \u2013 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/div> Lower secondary schools<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n<\/strong>Music by Gaetano Donizetti<\/strong>
\nMusic dramaturgy Alberto Zanardi<\/strong>
\nIn collaboration with Mariagrazia Mercaldo<\/strong>
\nConductor Giulio Arnofi<\/strong>
\nDirector Manuel Renga<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nIn collaboration with the Orchestra del Mare<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Maestro Gaetano Donizetti, aged and struck by madness, is in a nursing home in a small French village; an Italian servant named Sancio has been assigned to care for him. He no longer concerns himself with music, living alone, isolated, with a vacant stare. When he regains some strength, he locks himself in his room and reads, writes, talks to himself… No one knows how to help him anymore! One spring day, Sancio takes advantage of the door left open by his master and listens to him: Donizetti talks about his works, his stories, his music… and as he does so, for a moment, his eyes light up again. Then an idea forms in Sancio’s mind: why not recover one of the maestro’s works, written long ago, and try to use it to restore him to his former vitality? Il furioso nell’isola di S. Domingo (The Madman on the Island of St. Domingo)<\/em> is just what he needs.
\nListening to the overture, as if by magic, everything comes back to him and reality, memory and fantasy intermingle. Two actors and five singers will tell this bizarre, adventurous, dangerous and entertaining story.
\nIt is a story about the dangers of being alone, how love and friendship can heal all wounds, about acceptance and imagination.
\nIn the end, the Maestro realises that only with the help of Sancho, now considered his faithful squire and friend, can he remember the ending of the story and perhaps change it!
\n\u2018In the kingdom of fantasy, Sancho, anything is possible!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/b>Saturday 18 October, 2025 | from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Teatro Donizetti
\n<\/strong><\/b>Free training course led by the director and the educational office, during which all teachers (not only those teaching music) will be introduced to the opera and the activities that will make the students the protagonists of the show, through songs, costumes and objects made in class.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/b>Saturday 29 November, 2025 | 3:30 PM (workshop at 2:30 PM) | Teatro Donizetti
\n<\/strong><\/b>For information and to purchase your ticket, see the title in the Opera Family section at this link<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Info<\/h2><\/div>