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Max is usually the ruling marksman of all the foresters, but today in the tournament he has missed every shot. He is desperate to know what is wrong with him, as tomorrow they compete for the trick shot.

Gioconda is rarely performed, except for the famous Dance of the Hours, which became popular also thanks to Walt Disney's Fantasia. This co-production of Arena di Verona, Barcelona's Teatro Eliseo and Madrid's Teatro Real, directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, is quite stunning. In the cast are Andrea Gruber, Carlo Colombara, Marco Berti, Ildiko Komlosi, Elisabetta Fiorillo and, debuting in the Dance of the Hours, Roberto Bolle, star of La Scala who has appeared in the most important theatres of the world. This music, on which Ponchielli worked for twenty-six years, seems to prefigure Puccini while, at the same time, echoing Verdi. To date Gioconda is one of the works most loved by audiences.

Wozzeck, an ordinary soldier, is tormented with thoughts that the woman he lives with is having an affair.

tale of the three loves of the poet Hoffmann. One is Olympia, actually an automaton that Hoffmann is tricked into loving and believing loves him in return by the scientist Spalanzani and the demon. The second is Antonia, whose illness threatens her life if she sings. However, she is be-spelled by the demon and sings herself to death. The third is the courtesan Giulietta, who seduces Hoffmann under the order of the demon in order to capture his reflection in a mirror.