______GAETANO DONIZETTI MARY STUART

ANTONINO FOGLIANI TEATRO ALLA SCALA

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MARY STUART ______

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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

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)

Maria Stuarda, Queen of Scots (soprano)

Anna Kennedy, Mary’s nurse (soprano) Paola Gardina

Roberto, Earl of Leicester () 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 , 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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