La forza del Destino

Composer: Verdi, Giuseppe

Conductor: Karytinos, Lukas

Orchestra: Filarmonia Veneta Orchestra

Chorus: Rovigo Teatro Sociale Chorus

Chorus Master: Mazzucato, Giorgio

Chirurgo: Franci, Romano

Curra: Balistreri, Silvia

Don Alvaro: Zulian, Renzo

Don Carlo: Felice, Marco di

Il Marchese di Calatrava: Nicodemo, Giuseppe

Leonora: Branchini, Susanna

Mastro Trabuco: Feltracco, Antonio

Melitone: Rumetz, Paolo

Padre Guardiano: Battaglia, Paolo

Preziosilla: Carraro, Tiziana

Un Alcade: Dall'Amico, Luca

Set Designer: Troisi, Alfredo

Costume Designer: Maestrini, Pier Francesco

Stage Director: Maestrini, Pier Francesco

Television Director: Mancini, Tiziano

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Venue: Teatro Comunale "Luciano Pavarotti" di Modena

Playing Time: 03:02:47

Catalogue Number: 33512

UPC: 8007144335120

Synopsis

La forza del Destino

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It all started with an agreement with the Russian music authorities and on the suggestion of Mauro Corticelli (an impresario from Bologna), to asked the composer to write a new opera for the imperial theatre. Verdi choose Don Alvaro o La fuerza de sino by the Spaniard Angel Perez de Saavedra for his subject and libretto and contacted to Piave to set the work right away.

On the evening of 10th November 1862 La forza del destino was finally staged at St. Petersburg's Imperial Theatre, obtaining resounding success. The performance was "excellent", according to what Verdi wrote to Tito Ricordi in his telegraphic account of the soirre. The Czar Alexander II, who could not see the first performances due to illness, attended on the fourth evening, and summoned the Maestro to congratulate him in person. La forza del destino is, indeed an experimental creation by a composer who was already mature but still looking for new incentives and challenges.