Riccardo Muti is the protagonist of
this year's edition of Ravenna Festival's Autumn Trilogy in the
usual spirit of change, renewal and experimentation, with a
line-up that brings together different epochs and artistic
languages, including theatre, music, dance, poetry.
From December 16 to 22, the maestro will lead a triptych of
performances at the Alighieri Theatre that have Italian opera at
their heart, with the tragic and lunar lyricism of Vincenzo
Bellini's Norma (16 and 19 December), the heroic longing for
freedom of Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco (17 and 20 December), and a
gala with some of the greatest interpreters of Verdi's
repertoire (22 December).
Conducting the Cherubini Orchestra and the Choir of the
Municipal Theatre of Piacenza, prepared by Corrado Casati, Muti
will restore the operas to their purest form (both titles will
be presented in a semi-staged version), distilling the
atmospheres and moods on a stage that has been stripped bare to
leave room only for the interpretation, clothed simply in the
chromatic gesture of young art designer Svccy, visual programmer
Davide Broccoli and lighting designer Eva Bruno.
Soprano Monica Conesa will perform in the role of Norma, with
Klodjan Kaçani as Pollione, Vittorio De Campo as Oroveso and
Eugénie Joneau as Adalgisa.
Instead, Nabucco will see Serban Vasile in the role of the
Babylonian sovereign, while Abigaille will be played by Lidia
Fridman and Zaccaria by Evgeny Stavinsky, with Francesca Di
Sauro as Fenena and Riccardo Rados as Ishmael.
For the Verdi gala, including symphonies, choruses and arias
from La Forza del Destino, Macbeth, Otello, Il Trovatore, Simon
Boccanegra, Don Carlo and more, Teatro Alighieri see
performances by Ildar Abdrazakov, Elisa Balbo, Isabel De Paoli,
Rosa Feola, Juliana Grigoryan, Vittoria Magnarello, Luca
Micheletti, Piero Pretti and Riccardo Rados.
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