Les vepres siciliennes (I vespri Siciliani)

Composer: Verdi, Giuseppe

Librettist/Text Author: Scribe, Eugene

Librettist/Text Author: Duveyrier, Charles

Conductor: Ranzani, Stefano

Orchestra: Arturo Toscanini Foundation Orchestra

Ensemble: Balletto Teatro di Torino

Chorus: Arturo Toscanini Foundation Chorus

Chorus Master: Faelli, Marco

Arrigo: Zulian, Renzo

Bethune: Lana, Cesare

Danieli: Trucco, Giorgio

Elena: Nizza, Amarilli

Manfredo: Casalin, Luca

Monforte: Stoyanov, Vladimir

Ninetta: Carraro, Tiziana

Procida: Anastassov, Orlin

Roberto: Koroneos, Stefanos

Tebaldo: Olivieri, Cristiano

Vaudemont: Muzzi, Lorenzo

Set Designer: Pizzi, Pier Luigi

Costume Designer: Pizzi, Pier Luigi

Lighting Designer: Rossi, Sergio

Stage Director: Pizzi, Pier Luigi

Television Director: Dall'Olio, Fausto

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Venue: Teatro Verdi di Busseto

Playing Time: 02:39:41

Catalogue Number: 33551

UPC: 8007144335519

Synopsis

Les vepres siciliennes (I vespri Siciliani)

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Les vepres siciliennes, a five-act opera on a libretto by Eugene Scribe and Charles Duveyrier with music by Giuseppe Verdi, was first staged at the Paris Opera on 13th June 1855. The subject of the opera was nothing other than an adaptation of a libretto that Scribe had written some years before. At first the opera was greeted with great success, even Hector Berlioz, usually far from kind to Italian musicians, exalted the grandeur of its conception and its masterly composition. However its Parisian success was to be short lived, and after 1865 Les vepres siciliennes disappeared from the repertoire of the Opera.