Programme Opera Season
OPERA SEASON
Love, jealously, betrayal, madness:
WOMEN’S PORTRAIT
from September 23 to December 18
ANCONA
Teatro delle Muse “Franco Corelli”
Opera season 2016
Friday 23 September 2016, 8.30 pm
Sunday 25 September, 4 pm
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Tragic drama in three acts
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano
From the novel The bride of Lammermoor of Walter Scott
music by Gaetano Donizetti
First performance: Napoli, Teatro San Carlo, 26 September 1835
Characters and interpreters:
Lord Enrico Ashton Giorgio Caoduro
Lucia Zuzana Markovà
Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood Francesco Demuro
Raimondo Bidebent Ugo Guagliardo
Lord Arturo Bucklaw Sehoon Moon
Normanno Manuel Pierattelli
Alisa Anastasia Pirogova
conductor Giuseppe Grazioli
director Federico Bertolani
scenes and costumes Lucio Diana
Orchestra Sinfonica “G. Rossini”
Coro Lirico Marchigiano “V. Bellini”
New staging by Fondazione Teatro delle Muse
Friday 14 October, 8.30 pm
Sunday 16 October, 4 pm
TOSCA
Lyric opera in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
music by Giacomo Puccini
First performance: Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 14 January 1900
Characters and interpreters:
Floria Tosca Cellia Costea
Mario Cavaradossi Antonello Palombi
Il Barone Scarpia Alberto Gazale
Cesare Angelotti Alessandro Spina
Il Sagrestano Davide Bartolucci
conductor Guillaume Tournaire
director Pete Brooks
scenes and costumes Laura Hopkins
video Simon Wainwright
Orchestra Sinfonica “G. Rossini”
Coro Lirico Marchigiano “V. Bellini”
new staging by Fondazione Teatro delle Muse
JESI
G.B. PERGOLESI THEATRE
49^ OPERA SEASON OF TRADICTION
Wednesday 9 November 2016, 4 pm (preview youth)*
Friday, 11 November 2016, 8.30 pm
Sunday, 13 November 2016, 4 pm
G.B. Pergolesi Theatre
ADELSON E SALVINI
Musical drama in three acts adapted from a libretto of Andrea Leone Tottola based on the eponymous novel in the collection Les Épreuves du Sentiment of François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d’Arnaud
music by Vincenzo Bellini
First representation: February 1825, Naples, Teatrino del Real Collegio di Musica (ex Convento di San Sebastiano)
Characters and interpreters:
Nelly, orfana Cecilia Molinari
Fanny, giovane vassalla di Adelson Sara Rocchi
Madama Rivers, governante in casa d’Adelson Giovanna Lanza
Salvini, amico di Adelson Merto Sungu
Lord Adelson Rodion Pogossov
Struley, nobile proscritto Baurzhan Anderzhanov
Bonifacio Clemente Antonio Daliotti
Geronio, confidente di Struley Enrico Marchesini
conductor José Miguel Perez Sierra
director Roberto Recchia
scenes Benito Leonori
costumes Catherine Buyse Dian
light Alessandro Carletti
Orchestra Sinfonica “G. Rossini”
Coro Lirico Marchigiano “V. Bellini”
Choirmaster Carlo Morganti
new staging by Pergolesi Spontini Foundation
in co-production with Teatro Massimo “V. Bellini” di Catania
Wednesday 30 November 2016, 4 pm (preview youth)*
Friday, 2 December 2016, 8.30 pm
Sunday, 4 December 2016, 4 pm
G.B. Pergolesi Theatre
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Melodrama in one act
Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci
Based on the eponymous drama (1884) of Giovanni Verga
music by Pietro Mascagni
First representation: Rome, Teatro Costanzi, 17 May 1890
Characters and interpreters:
Santuzza Norma Fantini
Turiddu Alin Stoica
Alfio Fabian Veloz
Lucia Giovanna Lanza
Lola Cristina Alunno
PAGLIACCI
Drama in a prologue and two acts
Libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo
music by Ruggero Leoncavallo
First representation: 21 May 1892, Milan, Teatro dal Verme
Characters and interpreters:
Nedda Maria Teresa Leva
Canio Ilya Govzich
Tonio Fabian Veloz
Silvio Modestas Sedlevičius
Beppe Christian Collia
conductor Daniel Martínez Gil de Tejada
director Paul-Émile Fourny
scenes Benito Leonori
costumes Giovanna Fiorentini
Orchestra Sinfonica “G. Rossini”
Coro Lirico Marchigiano “V. Bellini”
Choirmaster Carlo Morganti
Pueri Cantores “Domenichino Zamberletti”
Choirmaster Gianluca Paolucci
New staging by Pergolesi Spontini Foundation
in co-production with Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole and Opéra de Toulon
Wednesday, 11 january 2017, 4pm (preview youth)*
Friday, 13 january 2017 , 8.30 pm
Sunday, 15 january 2017, 4 pm
G.B. Pergolesi Theatre
LA SCUOLA DE’ GELOSI
Playful drama in two acts
Libretto by Caterino Mazzolà revisited by Lorenzo da Ponte
music by Antonio Salieri
First representation of that version: 27 December 1778, Venice, Teatro San Moisè
Characters and interpreters:
Soloists of the Academy of the Musical May Florentine
Conte Bandiera, Patrick Kabongo Mubenga
Contessa Bandiera, Francesca Longari
Ernestina, sua moglie, Eleonora Bellocci
Blasio, un commerciante di grano, Benjamin Cho
Lumaca, servitore di Blasio, Qianming Dou
Carlotta, cameriera di locanda, Ana Victoria Pitts
Il Tenente, cugino di Blasio e amico del conte, Manuel Amati
conductor Giovanni Battista Rigon
director Italo Nunziata
scenes Andrea Belli
costumes Valeria Donata Bettella
light Marco Giusti
I Virtuosi Italiani
first violin Alberto Martini
Show created on the initiative of the Fondazione Culturale Antonio Salieri di Legnago
with the adhesion of Fondazione Teatri delle Dolomiti di Belluno
in co-production between Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini, Teatro Ristori di Verona, Deputazione Teatrale Teatro Marrucino di Chieti, Fondazione Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
with the participation of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s Academy
and the support of Fondazione Cariverona
New staging
First performance in modern times
Wednesday 1 february 2017, 4 pm (preview youth)*
Friday 3 february 2017, 8.30 pm
Saturday 4 february 2017, 8.30 pm (out subscription)
Sunday 5 february 2017, 4 pm
G.B. Pergolesi Theatre
LA TRAVIATA
Melodrama in three acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave from the drama La dame aux camélias of Alexandre Dumas son
music by Giuseppe Verdi
First performance: 6 march 1853, Venezia, La Fenice Theatre
Violetta Valéry Salome Jicia (1-3-5/02) | Nunzia De Falco (4/02)
Flora Bervoix Mariangela Marini
Annina Teresa Stagno
Alfredo Germont Ivan Defabiani (1-3-5/02) | Sehoon Moon (4/02)
Giorgio Germont Giovanni Meoni
Gastone, Visconte di Létorières Daniele Adriani
Il barone Douphol Omar Kamata
Il marchese d’Obigny Cuneyt Unsal
Il dottor Grenvil Enrico Marchesini
Giuseppe Alessandro Pucci
Un domestico di Flora Massimiliano Fiorani
Un commissionario Franco Di Girolamo
conductor Giuseppe Montesano
director Franco Dragone
scenes Benito Leonori
costumes Catherine Buyse Dian
assistant director Michele Mangini
Orchestra Sinfonica “G. Rossini”
Coro Lirico Marchigiano “V. Bellini”
Choirmaster Carlo Morganti
New staging by Pergolesi Spontini Foundation
Saturday 19 November 2016, 9 pm
V. Moriconi Theatre
ESTER, LIBERATRICE DEL POPOLO EBREO
Oratory in two parts in five voices, of text by Lelio Orsini (tract from the book of Ester in the Bible)
music by Alessandro Stradella
First performance: Rome, among 1670 and 1673
Characters and interpreters:
Ester Claudia Di Carlo, soprano
Speranza celeste Maria Sardaryan, soprano
Mardocheo Stefano Guadagnini, alto
Amano Valentino Mazzuca, baritono
Assuero Jean Baptiste Mouret, basso
conductor Andrea de Carlo
costumes Isabella Chiappara Soria
Ensemble Stradella Y-Project
Anna Maria Gentile viola da gamba
Francesco Sorrentino violoncello
Marco Contessi contrabbasso
Luca Di Berardino tiorba e chitarra barocca
Olena Kurkina tiorba
Lucia Adelaide Di Nicola organo e clavicembalo
Stradella Y-Project
collaboration between Conservatorio A. Casella de L’Aquila, Centro di Musica Antica della Pietà dei Turchini di Napoli, Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini di Jesi, Accademia d’Arte Lirica di Osimo, Festival Internazionale Alessandro Stradella di Nepi, Festival Grandezze & Meraviglie di Modena, Società di Concerti Barattelli di L’Aquila, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Oratorio del Gonfalone di Roma
Concert
dedicated to the memory of Alberto Pierucci
Saturday 14 January 2017, 9 pm
V. Moriconi Theatre
PER LA RICUPERATA SALUTE DI OFELIA
MOZART VS SALIERI
music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, Marco Taralli
soprano Valeria Esposito
flute Paola Fre
oboe Marco Soprana
conductor Alberto Martini
I Virtuosi Italiani
* Performance reserved for participants in the project “youth…to the Opera!”