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ottorino reSpighi La Campana SommerSa ANGELO VILLARI · VALENTINA FARCA · THOMAS GAZHELI · MARIA LUIGIA BORSI CONDUCTED BY DONATO RENZETTI · STAGED BY PIER FRANCESCO MAESTRINI TEATRO LIRICO DI CAGLIARI ottorino reSpighi La Campana SommerSa (THE SUNKEN BELL) Libretto by Claudio Guastalla, based on the play Die versunkene Glocke by Gerhart Hauptmann Conductor Donato Renzetti Best-known for his brilliantly evocative and rightly popular trilogy of Orchestra Orchestra del Teatro tone-poems on Rome, Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879 Lirico di Cagliari – 1936) was also a noted composer of operas. His gloriously lyrical and opulently orchestrated adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann’s fin Chorus Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari de siècle allegory Die versunkene Glocke (The Sunken Bell), the opera Coro di Voci bianche del La campana sommersa is Respighi’s operatic masterpiece – a magical, Conservatorio G.P. da if ultimately tragic, tale of the love between a mortal human and an Palestrina di Cagliari immortal fairy. Chorus Master Gaetano Mastroiaco Enrico die Maira The Teatro Lirico di Cagliari enjoys a worldwide reputation for Stage Director Pier Francesco Maestrini championing such rediscovered rarities and Pier Francesco Maestrini’s “brilliant production … succeeds in entrapping its audience in a magical Rautendelein Valentina Farca play of lighting and special effects, leading them through a hypnotic succession of mysterious woods, lunar landscapes, underwater worlds, Magda Maria Luigia Borsi and mountains inhabited by witches, fauns and other fantastical La Strega Agostina Smimmero creatures” (OperaClick.com). The beautiful picturesque sets and Enrico Angelo Villari projections are by Spanish set designer Juan Guillermo Nova. L’Ondino Thomas Gazheli Il Fauno Filippo Adami As Enrico, the Faustian bellfounder, who finds visionary inspiration in Il Curato Dario Russo his love for the fairy Rautendelein, but as a result loses his wife, his Il Maestro Nicola Ebau children and, finally, his own life, Sicilian tenor Angelo Villari “shows Il Barbiere Mauro Secci total mastery of every difficulty in Respighi’s vocal writing”, while, Il Nano Sandro Meloni as the fascinating fairy herself, Romanian soprano Valentina Farcas “convinces one with her involving stage presence, the security of her intonation and the sweetness of her tone” (L’ape musicale). To top it all, Produced by Metis Film Donato Renzetti “conducts magnificently and the orchestra sounds Video Director Tiziano Mancini magnificent too” La( Stampa). shot in U LTRA HD (3840 × 2160) Length: approx. 140' Cat. no. A 000 50038 A production of UNITEL in co-production with Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Fondazione World Sales: All rights reserved · credits not contractual · Different territories · Photos: © Priamo Tolu · Flyer: luebbeke.com Flyer: · Tolu contractual Priamo Different Photos: © territories credits · not rights · All reserved · Tel. +49.30.30306464 [email protected] Unitel GmbH & Co. KG, Germany · Tel. +49.89.673469-630 · [email protected] www.unitel.de.