Teatro Nuovo has unveiled its eighth season of Bel Canto revivals, a pair of works chosen from the repertory of America's very first season of Italian opera. The innovative troupe and its period-instrument orchestra. This year Teatro Nuovo celebrates a bicentennial: the arrival of Italian opera two centuries ago.
It came with a traveling company led by Rossini's star tenor Manuel García and his soon-to-be-famous children. For ten months, between 29 November 1825 and 30 September 1826, they performed a repertory of nine titles: five by Rossini, two by García himself, one each by Zingarelli and Mozart.
