Venice: La Fenice Opera House
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Director: Cecilia Ligorio
Sets: Nicolas Bovey
Costumes: Marco Piemontese
Choreographer and dancer: Daisy Phillips
Running Time: 4h40'
Act 1: 2h20'
interval: 0h40'
Act 2: 1h40'
PROGETTO ROSSINI
is dedicated to his memory
2018 marks the 150th anniversary of Gioachino Rossini’s death
cast
Semiramide
⎮ Jessica Pratt
Arsace
⎮ Teresa Iervolino
Assur
⎮ Alex Esposito
Idreno
⎮ Enea Scala
Oroe
⎮ Simon Lim
Azema ⎮ Marta Mari
Mitrane ⎮ Enrico Iviglia
L’ombra di Nino
⎮ Francesco Milanese
Condutor
⎮ Riccardo Frizza
Director
⎮ Cecilia Ligorio
Setes
⎮ Nicolas Bovey
Costumes
⎮ Marco Piemontese
Choreographer and dancer ⎮ Daisy Ransom Phillips
dancers ⎮ Olivia Hansson, Elia Lopez Gonzalez, Marika Meoli, Sau-Ching Wong
La Fenice Choir & Orchestra
Chorus Master
⎮Claudio Marino Moretti
english surtitles
La Fenice Opera House new production
On streaming for free on
www.culturebox.fr and su Mezzo (TivùSat Channel 49)
When Rossini left Naples and set about composing a new opera for Teatro La
Fenice in Venice, he was well aware he had to create something totally different; the
Venetian audience would not have ‘accepted’ the sophistication of the Neapolitan
school but it was equally unbearable for him to return to the stylistic elements
he had already developed in Tancredi.
Inspired by Voltaire’s tragedy Semiramis,
(which drew considerably on Shakespeare’s play), he set aside its context and
instead created an absolute, perfect composition that was almost a stylistic utopia.
In this unique score, conventionality and pure abstraction go hand in hand, after
which, melodrama will never be the same.
When Rossini left Naples and set about composing a new opera for La Fenice Opera House in Venice, he was well aware he had to create something totally different; the Venetian audience would not have ‘accepted’ the sophistication of the Neapolitan school but it was equally unbearable for him to return to the stylistic elements he had already developed in
Tancredi. Inspired by Voltaire’s tragedy
Semiramis, (which drew considerably on Shakespeare’s play), he set aside its context and instead created an absolute, perfect composition that was almost a stylistic utopia. In this unique score, conventionality and pure abstraction go hand in hand, after which, melodrama will never be the same.
#Semiramide
