Giordano’s Fedora at La Fenice
Umberto Giordano’s Fedora opens the 2026–27 opera season at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, with performances from 13 to 22 November 2026.
A tale of love, revenge and fatal misunderstanding, Fedora follows a Russian princess whose pursuit of her fiancé’s suspected murderer becomes an overwhelming and destructive passion.
Donato Renzetti conducts the La Fenice Orchestra and Choir in a production directed by Hugo de Ana, who also designs the sets and costumes.
Performance details
- Venue: Teatro La Fenice, Venice
- Language: Italian
- Surtitles: Italian and English, subject to availability
- Orchestra and Choir of Teatro La Fenice
- Cast varies by performance date
Ticket information
- Official tickets for Teatro La Fenice
- E-tickets sent by email
- Seats together unless otherwise stated
- Best available seats assigned within the selected category
- Full refund if the performance is cancelled
Giordano’s tale of love and revenge
Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano, with a libretto by Arturo Colautti based on the play by Victorien Sardou.
Princess Fedora Romazov vows to uncover the truth behind the murder of her fiancé. Her suspicions fall upon Count Loris Ipanov, whom she follows from St Petersburg to Paris. As the truth gradually emerges, her determination for revenge gives way to love—with devastating consequences.
Giordano’s atmospheric score combines lyrical intimacy with the dramatic intensity of Italian verismo. Its best-known moment is Loris’s passionate aria “Amor ti vieta”, one of the composer’s most celebrated melodies.
First performed at the Teatro Lirico in Milan in 1898, Fedora remains one of Giordano’s most important operas alongside Andrea Chénier.
- Conductor: Donato Renzetti
- Chorus master: Elena Pierini
- Director, sets and costumes: Hugo de Ana
- Lighting: Valerio Alfieri
- Choreography: Michele Cosentino
Fedora Romazov
Maria Agresta: 13, 15, 18, 20 and 22 November
Rachele Stanisci: 14, 17 and 19 November
Olga Sukarev: Ekaterina Bakanova
Loris Ipanov
Vincenzo Costanzo: 13, 15, 18, 20 and 22 November
Amadi Lagha: 14, 17 and 19 November
De Siriex: Simone Piazzola
Desiré and Baron Rouvel: Carmine Riccio
Cirillo: Fabrizio Brancaccio
Borov: William Corrò
Grech: Adriano Gramigni
