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From 12 April to 7 May 2017
Gioachino Rossini
On the 200th anniversary of the Premiere – Teatro alla Scala 1817
Teatro alla Scala Chorus and Orchestra
New Teatro alla Scala Production
Running Time: 03 hours 40 minutes intermission included
Conductor Riccardo Chailly
Staging Gabriele Salvatores
Sets and costumes Gian Maurizio Fercioni
Lights Marco Filibeck
CAST
Ninetta
Rosa Feola
Pippo Serena Malfi
Lucia Teresa Iervolino
Fabrizio Vingradito Paolo Bordogna
Giannetto Edgardo Rocha
Fernando Villabella Alex Esposito
Gottardo Michele Pertusi
Ernesto Marko Mimica
NOTES ON THE PERFORMANCE
“The success was so enormous, the opera aroused such furore that at every moment the audiences stood up en masse to cover Rossini in acclaim.” Stendhal, a spectator at the Premiere at La Scala in 1817, described how “Rossini grew tired of bowing before the audience tired of applauding.” Two hundred years later, the eminent expert on Rossini Riccardo Chailly brings this celebrated tragicomic opera back to the stage where it was first performed. A masterpiece of grace and brilliance, it is also adept at describing the excesses of power without beating about the bush. Making his debut at La Scala for the occasion is Gabriele Salvatores: the director, co-founder of the Teatro dell’Elfo and Oscar winner in 1991 for “Mediterraneo” returns to the theatre to relate the story of the servant Ninetta, who is wrongly accused of theft. The cast brings together the cream of the new generation of Rossinian bel canto: with Rosa Feola debuting, we will hear the tenor Edgardo Rocha, basses Alex Esposito and Paolo Bordogna, as well as Teresa Iervolino and the expert canto of Michele Pertusi.