«Арольдо» Верди
Пьер Луиджи Пицци (режиссёр-постановщик), Пьер Джорджо Моранди (дирижёр) – С Густаво Порта (Арольдо), Миной Дамато (Адриана), Франко Вассалло (Эгберто)...
Состав
Пьер Луиджи Пицци
Серджо Росси
Gustavo Porta
Adriana Damato
Франко Вассалло
Enrico Giuseppe Iori
Valter Borin
Antonio Feltracco
Miriam Artiaco
Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza
Corrado Casati
Orchestra della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Pier Giorgio Morandi
О программе
Discover this rare Verdian jewel! Aroldo—one of the composer’s least performed works—premiered in 1857 in Rimini, Italy. The work was created in response to the censorship of Verdi’s 1849 Stiffelio, whose tale of a protestant pastor publicly pardonning an adulterer and his wife proved too scandalous for 19th-century Italian society. In creating Aroldo, Verdi’s librettist and collaborator Francesco Maria Piave transposed Stiffelio’s story and characters to the more distant setting of Great Britain at time of the Crusades, and the composer took advantage of this new version to add a fourth act to the opera, and to rewrite part of the first act as well as a few arias.
In this production, Aroldo and Mina are magnificently brought to life by Gustavo Porta and Adriana Damato, and Pier Luigi Pizzi’s staging gives an excellent new framing for this unjustly neglected work.