GOMES: Lo Schiavo - Trailer [Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, February 2019]

Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes was among the many musicians who travelled to Italy to master the language and the rules of operatic works. He studied in Milan and succeeded in having a few operas staged at Italian venues, and then returned to Brazil where he was hailed as the most famous living national composer. In his country, Gomes felt the urge to commit his work to the anti-slave cause, which was still a legal practice there, at the time. Lo schiavo, therefore was conceived as a politically engaged work. However, the issue was rather slippery and the composer had to change the contemporary time setting with a more distant one. In Brazil the opera obtained a triumphant success, but elsewhere it was not popular and soon it went into oblivion.

This recording of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari’s production documents the opera’s first performance in modern times and unveils Gomes’ flamboyant richness of melodic creativity, wisdom of construction and a technical mastery of the theatrical mechanisms that are always of high level.

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ANTÔNIO CARLOS GOMES (1836 – 1896)
LO SCHIAVO
Dramma lirico in four acts
Libretto by Rodolfo Paravicini from the draft by Alfredo d’Escragnolle Taunay

Cast
Ilàra - Svetla Vassileva
La contessa di Boissy - Elisa Balbo
Américo - Massimiliano Pisapia
Iberè - Andrea Borghini
Gianfèra - Daniele Terenzi
Il conte Rodrigo/Goitacà - Dongho Kim
Guarûco - Marco Puggioni
Tapacoà - Michelangelo Romero
Tupinambà/Lion - Francesco Musinu

Conductor
John Neschling

Orchestra and Chorus
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari

Chorus master
Donato Sivo

Director, Set and Light Designer
Davide Garattini Raimondi

Set Designer
Tiziano Santi

Costume Designer
Domenico Franchi

Light Designer
Alessandro Verazzi

Choreographer
Luigia Frattaroli

Video Director
Tiziano Mancini

Theater
Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, February 2019

New production of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, in coproduction with Festival Amazonas de Ópera of Manaus

Italian première performance in modern times
World première video recording

Produced by DYNAMIC SRL Italy
Worldwide distribution: NAXOS www.naxos.com
Available on CD, DVD, BLURAY:
CD: CDS7845.02 (2-CD)
DVD: 37845 (1 DVD)
BLURAY: 57845 (1 Blu-ray 25)

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