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Tasting Opera is much more than a bespoke opera dinner show: it is an ambitious cultural project, deeply rooted in the history of Italian belcanto and cuisine, while embracing a forward-looking vision.
Roberto Codazzi, scientific curator, journalist, musician, and musicologist, guides the selection of the young operatic talents of Tasting Opera and creates pairings between the favorite dishes of the great composers and their most famous arias. Always attuned to the dialogue between music and gastronomy, he has dedicated essays and publications to this theme, including "L’alfabeto della cucina verdiana" and "Musicisti a tavola".
“Because,” he says, “musicians are hungry beings, in both the literal and the figurative sense of the word. Hungry for food and for feelings, for good wine and for passions. In the end, these souls, seemingly so distant, move in step, so often as complements to one another.”
"Dine like a maestro" perfectly embodies the essence of every bespoke opera dinner: the performance of celebrated arias and symphonies is paired with a dish or a wine loved by the very composer or maestro who created that melody, giving life to a synergy of sounds, flavors, and emotions to linger in memory and be passed on through time.
Through large-scale events staged in exclusive venues, Tasting Opera brings to strategic markets two pinnacles of Made in Italy: haute cuisine and opera. Our mission is to enrich institutional, corporate and private events with unique experiences, where fine cuisine and the masterpieces of great maestros and composers merge into an unforgettable harmony.
Tasting Opera was founded as a benefit corporation, committed to creating new career opportunities for talented and deserving singers and musicians who are conservatory graduates. Aware of the challenges many young Italian artists face in finding positioning within the operatic music industry, our mission is to offer them new visibility and recognition on the international opera stage.
Tasting Opera puts the sharing of values with its partners and sponsors first, engaging key players from the food, beverage, and hospitality sectors, in perfect harmony with the culture of Italian opera.
Tasting Opera integrates multisensory experiences and innovation into its opera dinner concept, aiming to provide its stakeholders with clear communication, offering straightforward yet detailed descriptions of each stage in the organization of every event.
