Teatro di San Carlo

Medea

In Cinemas 21, 22 & 25 Mar 2026
Conductor
Riccardo Frizza
Orchestra
Orchestra of Teatro di San Carlo
Cast
Sondra Radvanovsky (Medea), Francesco Meli (Giasone), Giorgi Manoshvili (Creonte), Désirée Giove (Glauce), Anita Rachvelishvili (Néris)
Composer
Luigi Cherubini
Director
Mario Martone
Set Design
Carmine Guarino
Duration
Approx. 3h incl. an interval
Sung in Italian, with English subtitles
Captured live from Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, 20 Nov 2025
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Opéra-comique in three acts (1797)

New Production! Join us for the first ever performance of Cherubini's masterpiece at Naples' San Carlo Theatre - the world's oldest continuously active opera venue - 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 (award-winning tenor Francesco Meli), when he chooses to abandon her to marry Glauce (rapidly rising Italian soprano 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.

Teatro di San Carlo

Next to Plebiscito Square, one of the symbols of Naples, stands the shrine to Italian opera, Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest continuously active venue for opera in the world, having opened in 1737, decades before either Milan's La Scala or Venice's La Fenice.

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