Alahor in Granata

2026 OPERA

Melo-dramma in two acts by M.A.
Music by Gaetano Donizetti

First performance: Palermo, Teatro Carolino, 7 January 1826
Critical edition by Edoardo Cavalli, Fondazione Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo

Cast Conductor Chiara CattaniDirector Benedetto Sicca PapaSet designer Luigi FerrignoCostume designer Marco PiemonteseLighting designer Marco Giusti Muley-Hassem Laura VerrecchiaZobeida Mira AlkhovikAlahor Grisha MartirosyanAlamar Dave MonacoSulima Cristina De Carolis Orchestra Gli OriginaliCoro dell’Accademia Teatro alla ScalaChorus master Salvo Sgrò New production by Fondazione Teatro Donizetti Synopsis The story—fictional yet grounded in historical context—takes place in late-fifteenth-century Granada. The city, the last Arab kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, is under siege by Spanish forces. Inside its walls, however, an internal conflict rages just as fiercely between two factions: the Abenceragi clan and the Zegri. The Zegri have seized power, massacring their rivals…