Marino Faliero (1835 edition)

Composer: Donizetti, Gaetano

Librettist/Text Author: Bidera, Emanuele

Conductor: Cinquegrani, Bruno

Orchestra: Bergamo Musica Festival Orchestra

Chorus: Bergamo Musica Festival Chorus

Chorus Master: Tartari, Fabio

A gondolier: Menini, Domenico

Arrigo: Fanton, Elvis

Beltrame: Paola, Giuseppe di

Elena: Stanisci, Rachele

Fernando: Magri, Ivan

Giovanni: Ezequiel, Moya Gonzalo

Irene: Spissu, Paola

Israele Bertucci: Grassi, Luca

Leoni: Gramegna, Leonardo

Marco: Scarpellini, Livio

Marino Faliero: Surian, Giorgio

Pietro: Marchesini, Enrico

Steno: Dall'Amico, Luca

Strozzi: Menini, Domenico

Vincenzo: Stefanovski, Aleksandar

Set Designer: Ciammarughi, Alessandro

Costume Designer: Ciammarughi, Alessandro

Lighting Designer: Pirandello, Giovanni

Stage Director: Spada, Marco

Television Director: Ricchetti, Matteo

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Date of Production: 2008

Venue: Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo

Playing Time: 02:32:20

Catalogue Number: 2.110616-17

UPC: 747313561560

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Donizetti's fiftieth opera, Marino Faliero, was first performed in Paris on 12 March 1835 with a cast comprising four of the finest singers of the period before premiering in London a few weeks later. Although these premieres were both overshadowed by Bellini's I Puritani, Marino Faliero subsequently enjoyed a long and successful run on international performances throughout the 19th century before disappearing from the stage until its modern revival in 1966. Set in Venice in 1355, it remains a major work of Italian Romanticism, sentimental, martial, full of conspiratorial adventure and culminating with the execution of the leading role.