______GAETANO DONIZETTI MARY STUART
ANTONINO FOGLIANI TEATRO ALLA SCALA
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MARY STUART ______
POSTER
Teatro alla Scala , Genuary 2008 Opera and Ballett Season 2007-2008 MARY STUART
Lyrical tragdey in two acts – Libretto by Giuseppe Bardari From the homonymous tragedy by Friedrich Schiller Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Critical edition by Anders Wiklund Universal Music Publishing Ricordi s.r.l., Milan In collaboration and with the contribution of "Comune di Bergamo"
First representation: Milan, Teatro alla Scala, December 30th 1835
Conductor Antonino Fogliani Director, scenes and costumes Pier Luigi Pizzi
Choir and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala Choir maestro Bruno Casoni
Characters and performers
Elisabetta, Queen of England (soprano) Anna Caterina Antonacci
Maria Stuarda, Queen of Scots (soprano) Mariella Devia
Anna Kennedy, Mary’s nurse (soprano) Paola Gardina
Roberto, Earl of Leicester (tenor) Francesco Meli
Giorgio Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (bass) Simone Alberghini
Lord Guglielmo Cecil , Lord High Treasurer (bass) Piero Terranova
Choirs and apparitions
Knights, Ladies, Mary's Attendants, Royal Guards, Pages, Courtiers, Hunters, Soldiers of Fortheringay
MEDIA CONTENTS AND CREDITS
VIDEO Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) MARY STUART HIGHLIGHTS* Solos, Choir and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala Conductor Antonino Fogliani
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN DEATH AND POWER IN MARY STUART with Philip Gossett visual journey by Elvio Annese and Roberto San Pietro In collaboration with Ipotesi Cinema
EXTRA Synopsis and libretto: Italian, English, French Maria Stuarda, da Schiller a Donizetti: dalla prosa al melodramma tramite Maffei e Bardari by Olimpio Cescatti Il faticoso cammino di Maria Stuarda by Giovanni Vitali Per una storia dell’interpretazione: Maria Stuarda on CD and DVD by Elvio Giudici Quadro riassuntivo della successione alla Corona Inglese by Tommaso Iannini In collaboration with the Ufficio Edizioni of Teatro alla Scala MP3 audio files of the complete work
[All texts are in Italian]
AUDIO Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) MARY STUART Unreleased recording Live recording (*) Rai Trade and OPUS NHK
Directed by Carlo Tagliabue Specialized Sergio Brigliadori, Antonio Topolino
Photo director Riccardo De Poli Post production audio Gabriele Fanchini
Production director Salvatore Bucca
Music consultants Marco Diano, Maddalena Novati
Editor Simona Bernardini
Delegated to the production Manuela Scifoni
Rai TV supervisor Gino Rossi
Rai Trade producer Franco Consolani
Audio shooting by RAI - Direzione Radio Rai
Organization Pietro Panzeri
Musical audio consultant Maddalena Novati
Audio shooting Guglielmina De Toffol
MEDIA PROJECTS CREDITS
Project and marketing Nimax S.r.l. Art supervisor Philip Gossett Producer and iconographic research Mario Marcarini Denoising and remastering Diversified Technologies S.r.l. Authoring and subtitles synchronization Impronte Digitali srl Original graphic concept FG Gonfalonieri Series naming Clerici e Associati s.r.l.
Photographic references: © Jürgen Lippert (Portrait Antonino Fogliani) Civica Raccolta delle Stampe A. Bertarelli (Portrait Gaetano Donizetti)
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