Hello fellow travelers:<BR><BR>&quot;Comic Melologo&quot; -- &quot;Bach Haus&quot;.<BR><BR>These are the operas that will be at the Teatro dell' Opera in Rome when I am there, but despite my best efforts, I cannot find out what they are. Can any one help me?<BR><BR>Thanks.

I believe those are modern works by contemporary Italian composers.

&gt;MELOLOGO COMICO<BR>&gt;su musiche di Ada Gentile, Alessandro Sbordoni e Fausto Sebastiani <BR>&gt;Testo tratto da Stranalandia di Stefano Benni <BR><BR>Stefano Benni is one of the best italian contemporary writers (not translated in English, AFAIK, http://tinyurl.com/508t), Ada Gentile, Alessandro Sbordoni and Fausto Sebastiani wrote musics for his &quot;Stranalandia&quot; novel. A melologo is a reading on music.<BR><BR>BACH HAUS<BR>Intermezzo di Vincenzo De Vivo <BR>Musica di Michele Dall'Ongaro <BR><BR>In this case there is a choreographer listed, so it must be some kind of ballet.

Thanks, but I'm still confused. I'm an opera novice! Since they're not mainstream works that I can research for my family (husband and 11 year old), perhaps we'll skip the opera on this trip.

If you're an opera novice, I'd say you made a wise decision in posting that experience in Europe, based on the information provided!

Ooops, I mean't &quot;postponing,&quot; not posing.

If you are looking for a traditional Italian opera, this won't be it, so perhaps it is wise to skip it. It could be really good, more modern and innovative, but it could be awful, you never can tell about contemporary works. I know dance a lot better than opera (actually I know opera music quite well, I just don't go to performances much), partly because I used to be accompanist for a couple dance companies--and I often prefer contemporary works in dance. Perhaps I've just seen the old warhorses so much, though. <BR><BR>Operas/operettas often have choreographers also for the dance parts, so it's hard to say, but I think from the information I've seen that the second work is probably not simply a dance performance but another kind of modern opera-like work. That choreographer does opera, not solely dance performances, from what I've read.

Likely the Melologo will turn out boring for someone who does not speak Itlaian, since (as I said before) it is mainly a reading.

Iregeo, when will you be there? Perhaps there is another opera in another theatre.<BR>You can put in a date on the website<BR>www.jmb-travel.co.uk/search.html<BR>and get a listing of what is playing all over the world on that date; then scroll for Rome. It's not 100% complete but it should be pretty accurate for Rome.