Teatro alla Scala New Production
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Treble Voices and the students of the Ballet School of the Teatro alla Scala Academy
Conductor | Frédéric Chaslin |
Staging | Davide Livermore |
Sets | Giò Forma |
Costumes | Mariana Fracasso |
Lights | Antonio Castro |
Video Designer | D-WOK |
Choreography | Frédéric Olivieri |
Chorus Master | Alberto Malazzi |
CAST |
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La Gioconda | Sonya Yoncheva |
Laura | Daniela Barcellona |
Alvise Badoero | Erwin Schrott |
La Cieca | Anna Maria Chiuri |
Enzo Grimaldo | Fabio Sartori |
Barnaba | Roberto Frontali |
Zuàne | Fabrizio Beggi |
A singer | Giorgio Valerio |
Isèpo | Francesco Pittari |
Barnabotto | Guillermo Esteban Bussolini |
Although unusual and difficult to classify, Ponchielli’s spectacular opera is always felt to be a special event by opera lovers. The libretto by Tovia Gorrio, nom de plume of Arrigo Boito, drawing on Victor Hugo’s prose, sketches a dark and mysterious Venice, theatre of passional excesses and crimes, which is perfectly mirrored by the composer’s generous and captivating melodic vein. A historical fresco with Scapigliatura overtones featuring six protagonists, one for each voice type.
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