Program Mezzo

Il Trovatore ‘Dramma’ in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano after 'El Trobador' by Antonio García Gutiérrez First performance in Rome, Teatro Apollo, 12 January 1857 Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Zubin Mehta (Conductor) Lorenzo Fratini (Chorus master) Cesare Lievi (Stage Director) Luigi Perego (Sets and costumes), Luigi Saccomandi (Lighting) Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Il conte di Luna) María José Siri (Leonora) Ekaterina Semenchuck (Azucena) Fabio Sartori (Manrico) Riccardo Fassi (Ferrando) Caterina Meldolesi (Ines) Alfonso Zambuto (Ruiz) Davide Piva (Un vecchio zingaro) Joseph Dahdah (Un messo) Florence, Maggio Fiorentino, Sala Zubin Mehta, 5 October 2022

Claudio Abbado 10 years after

I Lombardi alla prima crociata ‘Dramma lirico’ in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901) Libretto by Temistocle Solera First performance in Milan, Teatro alla Scala, February 11, 1843 Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Daniel Oren (Conductor) Chœur de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège Sarah Schinasi (Stage director) Pier Paolo Bisleri (sets), Françoise Raybaud (Costumes) Marco Ciaponi (Arvino) Goderdzi Janelidze (Pagano) Aurore Daubrun (Viclinda) Salome Jicia (Giselda) Ramón Vargas (Oronte) Roger Joakim (Acciano) Caroline De Mahieu (Sofia) Luca Dall'Amico (Pirro) Liège, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, 23 May 2023 Directed by Stéphane Vérité

Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado (Conductor) Swedish Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Daniela Barcellona (alto), Roberto Alagna (tenor), Julian Konstantinov (bass) Giuseppe Verdi 1813 - 1901 Messa da Requiem Directed by Bob Coles Berlin, Philharmonie, 10 October 2001

Falstaff ‘Commedia lirica’ in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Libretto by Arrigo Boito First performance in Milan, Teatro alla Scala, February 9, 1893 Orchestre National de Lille, Chœur de l’Opéra de Lille Antonello Allemandi (conductor) Denis Podalydes (stage director) Éric Ruf (sets), Christian Lacroix (costumes), Bertrand Couderc (lights) Tassis Christoyannis (Falstaff) Gabrielle Philiponet (Alice Ford) Julie Robard-Gendre (Meg Page) Silvia Beltrami (Mrs Quickly) Clara Guillon (Nannetta) Gezim Myshketa (Ford) Kevin Amiel (Fenton) Luca Lombardo (Dr Caius) Loic Felix (Bardolfo) Damien Pass (Pistola) Laurent Podalydès, Léo Reynaud (actors) Lille, Opera, May 14, 2023

Don Quixote Ballet in four acts and eight scenes de Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) Music by Ludwig Minkus (1826 - 1917) First performance in Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre, 26 December 1869 Mariinsky Ballet Mariinsky Orchestra Recorded at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, 4 February 2021