_____________________________________________________________ GAETANO DONIZETTI MARY STUART ANTONINO FOGLIANI TEATRO ALLA SCALA www.musicom.it 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) ℗&© 2008 Musicom.it S.r.l. Milano © 2008 Intesa Sanpaolo .