GIUSEPPE VERDI I DUE FOSCARI CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF TEATRO ALLA SCALA PLÁCIDO DOMINGO · FRANCESCO MELI · ANNA PIROZZI CONDUCTED BY MICHELE MARIOTTI · STAGED BY ALVIS HERMANIS GIUSEPPE VERDI I DUE FOSCARI
Orchestra Chorus and Orchestra Acclaim for La Scala’s new Foscari: “Plácido Domingo is the of Teatro alla Scala definitive Francesco of recent times” Financial( Times). “To see Conductor Michele Mariotti him again on stage is a joy. From here to eternity” (La Stampa). Chorus Master Bruno Casoni “One can only marvel at his enormous musicality, his ageless Stage Director & Set Designer Alvis Hermanis vocal quality, his enviable stage presence” (Il corriere musicale) Costume Designer Kristīne Jurjāne Lighting Designer Gleb Filshtinsky Here is Plácido Domingo’s latest conquest: the leading baritone Choreographer Alla Sigalova role of Francesco Foscari in Verdi’s darkly atmospheric, Video Designer Ineta Sipunova melodically generous early opera, based on Lord Byron’s play. Dramatic Advisor Olivier Lexa Set in 15th-century Venice, I due Foscari is the forerunner of Simon Boccanegra, and Domingo’s triumph as the Doge set the Francesco Foscari Plácido Domingo seal on this critically lauded new production from Milan’s Teatro Jacopo Foscari Francesco Meli alla Scala, the ultimate Verdi shrine. Lucrezia Contarini Anna Pirozzi Jacopo Loredano Andrea Concetti Declaring the legendary singer “the definitive Francesco of Barbarigo Edoardo Milletti recent times”, the Financial Times’s reviewer also had high praise Pisana Chiara Isotton for the rest of La Scala’s superb cast, from “Andrea Concetti’s Fante Azer Rza-Zada solid Loredano, to the immaculate Francesco Meli in a perfect Servant of the Doge Modestas Sedlevičius match for Jacopo. Anna Pirozzi makes a triumphant house debut as Lucrezia. She wins hearts and minds through fearsome Produced by Metis Film dramatisation and thrilling vocal power. But the revelation of the Video Director Tiziano Mancini night is [conductor] Michele Mariotti. Here is an interpretation of unbridled elasticity[...] There is the whiff of Venice’s sea breeze and a surge in its lagoon. The well-drilled chorus of patricians shot in send a chill down the spine. Mariotti is the wunderkind of the Italian repertoire.” ULTRA HD (3840 × 2160)
Length: 129' Cat. no. A 000 50037
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