VERDI La Forza del Destino - Trailer [2021 Maggio Musicale Fiorentino]

Giuseppe Verdi travelled to St Petersburg in 1862 to premiere La forza del destino, which had been commissioned by the city’s Imperial Theatre. The source material appealed to the composer’s sense of tragic intensity and the ruthlessness of destiny. The local audience was accustomed to 18th-century Italian opera as well as French grand opéra, and the resulting work is a synthesis of aristocratic drama and popular comedy. In 1869 he revised the work so that it ends in death and transfiguration. This critically admired production of the revised version is conducted by Zubin Mehta, in a new staging that was ‘enriched by some brilliant artists’ (Lyric Opera Journal).

Available in DVD (37930)/ Blu-ray (57930) / Digital CD 7930

Recording place: Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Recording date: June 4th, 2021

Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Orchestra and Chorus: Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Chorus master: Lorenzo Fratini
Director: Carlus Padrissa (La Fura dels Baus)
Director Assistant: João Aboim Carvalho
Set designer: Roland Olbeter
Set designer Assistant: Esterina Zarrillo
Light and video designer: Franc Aleu
Costume designer: Chu Uroz
Theater: Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Cast:
Alessandro Spina, Il Marchese di Calatrava, bass
Saioa Hernández, Leonora, figlia del Marchese, soprano
Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Don Carlo di Vargas, lo studente, figlio del marchese, baritone
Roberto Aronica, Don Alvaro, tenor
Annalisa Stroppa, Preziosilla, giovane zingara, soprano
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Padre guardiano, francescano, bass
Nicola Alaimo, Fra Melitone, francescano, baritone
Valentina Corò, Curra, cameriera di Leonora, soprano
Leonardo Cortellazzi, Mastro Trabuco, mulattiere, poi rivendugliolo, tenor
Francesco Samuele Venuti, Un Alcade, bass
Roman Lyulkin, Un Chirurgo, militare spagnolo, bass
Chorus Soloists: Ferruccio Finetti, Leonardo Melani, Luca Tamani
Extras: Elena Barsotti, Maria Diletta Della Martira, Maria Novella Della Martira, Sara Silli, Giampaolo Gobbi, Emanuele Marchetti, Alessio Nieddu, Gaetano Tizzano

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