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Schedule
2025/26 Season
Francis Poulenc – L’histoire de Babar
MALATESTA LIBRARY, CESENA
September 5, 2025
Concert organized by Adagio Assai, in collaboration with the City of Cesena and the Malatesta Library as part of the “School of Public” project.
Piano: Marco Rizzello
Narrator: Gaia Zappi
Florentina Holzinger – Sancta
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
October 3, 4, & 5, 2025; November 1 & 2, 2025
Marco Rizzello serves as a staff repetiteur for Florentina Holzinger’s show, which includes a performance of Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna.
Conductor: Marit Strindlund
Director: Florentina Holzinger
G. Verdi – Otello
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
October 11,18, 22, & 25, 2025; November 7, 13, 15, & 19, 2025
Marco Rizzello serves as staff repetiteur and conductor of the stage music for Verdi’s opera based on the Shakespearean tragedy by the same name.
Conductor: Killian Farrel/Vlad Iftinca
Director: Silvia Costa
G. Verdi – Rigoletto
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
October 12, 14, 20, & 26, 2025; November 5, 8, & 11, 2025
Marco Rizzello serves as staff repetiteur for Verdi’s Opera based on Victor Hugo’s "Le Roi s’amuse."
Conductor: Marc Piollet
Director: Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito
W. A. Mozart – Don Giovanni
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
December 4, 11, & 15, 2025; January 8, 11, 20, 25, & 31, 2026
Marco Rizzello serves as repetiteur and recitative player for Mozart and Da Ponte’s masterpiece.
Conductor: Cornelius Meister
Director: Andrea Moses
Häßlich as fuck
JOiN – JUNGE OPER IM NORD, STUTTGART
January 16, 17, 21, & 22, 2026
Marco Rizzello shares the stage with mezzo-soprano Itzeli Del Rosario in Häßlich as fuck, a show based on the music of Gustav Mahler.
Music Director: Marco Rizzello
Stage Director: Raphaela Fiuza Nowakowski, Martin Mutschler
Vivian and Ketan Bhatti – Der Rote Wal
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
December 17, 22, & 29, 2025; January 7, 9, & 22, 2026
Marco Rizzello plays the prepared piano and the celesta in the Staatsorchester Stuttgart.
Conductor: Marit Strindlund
Director: Martin G. Berger
V. Bellini – La Sonnambula
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
February 17, 20, & 28, 2026; March 9 & 12, 2026; April 6 & 9, 2026
Marco Rizzello serves as staff repetiteur for this Bellinian masterpiece.
Conductor: Vlad Iftinca
Director: Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito
G. Bizet – Carmen
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
February 14, 19, 22, & 27, 2026; March 10 & 13, 2026
Marco Rizzello serves as staff repetiteur for G Bizet’s tragedy bassed on Prosper Merimée’s tale.
Conductor: Roberto Kalb/Luka Hauser
Director: Sebastian Nübling
J. Strauss/R. Benatzky – Casanova
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
April 2, 11, & 17, 2026; May 13 & 25, 2026; June 3, 9, & 12, 2026
Marco Rizzello plays the Organ and the Celesta in the Staatsorchester Stuttgart.
Conductor: Keren Kagarlitsky/Cornelius Meister/Luka Hauser
Director: Marco Štorman
Recital - North Norfolk Music Festival
NORTH NORFOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL
April 5, 2026
Marco Rizzello shares the stage with tenor Jonah Hoskins for an Art Song Recital.
G. Rossini – Cenerentola
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
April 13, 19, & 22, 2026; May 4, 9, 12, 20, & 22, 2026
Marco Rizzello serves as staff repetiteur for Rossini’s opera based on the timeless Fairy Tale.
Conductor: Levente Török
Director: Andrea Moses
G. Puccini - Turandot
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
June 7, 13, 26, & 29, 2026; July 5, 8, & 18, 2026
Marco Rizzello serves as staff repetiteur and conductor of the stage music for Giacomo Puccini’s last masterpiece.
Conductor: Valerio Galli
Director: Anna-Sophie Mahler
Sara Glojnarič - Station Paradiso
STAATSOPER STUTTGART
May 10, 14, 17, & 24, 2026; June 1, 6, 11, & 21, 2026
Marco Rizzello plays the piano in the StaatsorchesterStuttgart.
Conductor: Peter Rundel
Director: Anika Rutkofsky
Summer Festival: Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop
SPOLETO – Mahler & LeWitt Studios
July 15-26, 2026
Marco Rizzello joins the staff of voice teachers and coaches at the Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop.
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