La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)

Composer: Rossini, Gioachino

Librettist/Text Author: Gherardini, Giovanni

Conductor: Jia, Lu

Orchestra: Bolzano-Trento Haydn Orchestra

Chorus: Prague Chamber Chorus

Chorus Master: Matl, Lubomir

Antonio: Panozzo, Cosimo

Ernesto: Ferrara, Matteo

Fabrizio: Bordogna, Paolo

Fernando: Esposito, Alex

Giannetto: Korchak, Dmitry

Giorgio: Prato, Vittorio

Gottardo: Pertusi, Michele

Isacco: Cifolelli, Stefan

La Gazza: Nagaraja, Sandhya

Lucia: Papatheologou, Kleopatra

Ninetta: Cantarero, Mariola

Pippi: Custer, Manuela

Podesta: Pertusi, Michele

Pretore: Ferrara, Matteo

Set Designer: Fantin, Paolo

Costume Designer: Teti, Carla

Lighting Designer: Truebridge, Mark

Stage Director: Michieletto, Damiano

Television Director: Mancini, Tiziano

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Festival: Rossini Opera Festival

Venue: Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro

Playing Time: 03:21:18

Catalogue Number: 33567

UPC: 8007144335670

Synopsis

La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)

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Together with librettist, Giovanni Gherardini, Rossini opened La gazza ladra at Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 31st March 1817. The opera was a success from its premiere and deservedly entered the already substantial catalogue of Rossini's works and, at the same time, generated a new group - the semi-serious genre. With La gazza ladra Rossini succeeds in mixing comic-sentimental and dramatic elements, thus achieving a music style which is enriched, modulated to suit events, forerunning an aesthetic ideal that was to be formalised some years later. The brilliant, rousing ouverture was made famous thanks to the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick's motion picture A Clockwork Orange.

The story, inspired by a sad event that had really happened, is based on a rather complex plot but does have a happy ending, and exploits mainly a weepy, pathetic tone, concentrating on the character of Ninetta, who is innocent but considered guilty.