Opera on Ice - Magica Emozione (Foro Italico, Rome 2019)

From the sports temple of the Foro Italico in Rome, a show rich of performances by the stars of world skating: Evgeni Plushenko, on the ice with his 6-year-old son Aleksandr, Miki Ando, Anna Cappellini & Luca Lanotte, Nicole Della Monica & Matteo Guarise, Annette Dytrt & Yannick Bonheuralla, Hot Shivers, and the young promises of Italian skating, Lucrezia Beccari of IceLab (Bergamo) and Gabriele Frangipani of the Young Goose Academy (Egna).

Among the unforgettable moments of the show, the big opening on the notes of the "Brindisi" from La Traviata, where the whole cast took to the ice for a tribute to the great Maestro Franco Zeffirelli who recently passed away. The President of the famous Sartoria Tirelli, Mr. Dino Trappetti, accepted the invitation to provide the precious historical costumes to celebrate and remember the great Maestro that were worn by the skaters in the opening number and in other pieces during the show.

With the participation of the excellent and beautiful soprano Elisa Balbo and the talents of the Pavarotti Foundation, the soprano Claudia Sasso, the tenor Giuseppe Michelangelo Infantino and the baritone Andrea Zaupa, accompanied by the hundred elements of the Rome Sinfonietta Orchestra and the New Roman Symphonic Lyric Choir conducted by Maestro Diego Basso.