L'equivoco stravagante

Composer: Rossini, Gioachino

Librettist/Text Author: Gasbarri, Gaetano

Conductor: Perez-Sierra, Jose Miguel

Orchestra: Virtuosi Brunensis

Chorus: Gorecki Chamber Choir

Chorus Master: Prendota, Mateusz

Buralicchio: Franco, Emmanuel

Ermanno: Kabongo, Patrick

Ernestina: Colaianni, Antonella

Frontino: Monti, Sebastian

Gamberotto: Mastrototaro, Giulio

Rosalia: Bellocci, Eleonora

Set Designer: Schonleber, Jochen

Costume Designer: Saavedra, Sandra Li Maennel

Lighting Designer: Porst, Oliver

Stage Director: Schonleber, Jochen

Television Director: Ohl, Philippe

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Date of Production: 07-2018

Festival: Rossini in Wildbad

Venue: Konigliches Kurtheater Bad Wildbad

Playing Time: 02:20:34

Catalogue Number: 2.110696

UPC: 747313569656

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Rossini wrote L'equivoco stravagante ('The Curious Misunderstanding'), his first full-length opera, when he was only 19 years old. As its title suggests, the plot of this dramma giocoso offers a panoply of absurdist stagecraft with one character being led to believe that the work's heroine is in fact a castrato trying to avoid military service. Full of his trademark buffo humuor, melodious and musically buoyant, the opera ran foul of the censors and was swiftly banned, which accounts for its rarity in performances and recordings. The new edition of the score was used in this production corrects numerous previous errors.