Around the Music Festival

The director, Franco Zeffirelli, decided to produce the Verdi “Rigoletto” at the Royal Opera House Muscat in Muscat, the capital of Oman in 2020. Zeffirelli will turn 96 in February 2019 next year. The eldest of the theater world. In 2020, the year of 50th anniversary after amending the country name from “Muscat Oman” to the present “Oman”, the opera house will celebrate its 10th anniversary. The new work uses a set of Arena di Verona Festival, costumes of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and takes a style of collaborating with the Lithuanian National Opera and the Croatian National Opera.

Photo：Royal Opera House Muscat