Teatro di San Carlo: MEDEA

Opéra-comique in three acts (1797) New Production! Join us for the first ever performance of Cherubini's masterpiece at the Naples Opera House, with celebrated soprano Sondra Radvanovsky singing the tour-de-force title role made famous by Maria Callas. The opera recounts the tragic tale of Medea, a mythic sorceress betrayed by her husband Jason (Francesco Meli), when he chooses to abandon her to marry Glauce (Désirée Giove), the princess of Corinth. Overcome with grief and fury, Medea will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance… Staged by multi award-winning film and theatre director Mario Martone, with Riccardo Frizza on the podium.