Jackie O

Composer: Daugherty, Michael

Librettist/Text Author: Koestenbaum, Wayne

Orchestra: Bologna Teatro Comunale Orchestra

Chorus: Coro del Teatro Rossini di Lugo

Chorus Master: Giacomoni, Gianluigi

Andy Warhol: Jones, Paul Carey

Aristotle Onassis: Alberghini, Simone

Grace Kelly: Grayson, Elizabeth

Jackie O: Mc Andrew, Fiona

Liz Taylor: Quintavalla, Alice

Maria Callas: Sourouzian, Nora

Voice of J.F.K.: Scala, Enea

Set Designer: Fantin, Paolo

Costume Designer: Pernigotti, Claudia

Lighting Designer: Michieletto, Damiano

Choreographer: Pizzuto, Roberto Maria

Stage Director: Michieletto, Damiano

Television Director: Ricchetti, Matteo

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Venue: Teatro Comunale, Bologna

Playing Time: 01:33:37

Catalogue Number: 33605

UPC: 8007144336059

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Jackie O develops around the life of Jacqueline Kennedy; her image, following her husband's assassination, of "tragic princess", and the following events, which captured the attention of the world's media.

American composer Michael Daugherty has written a very modern work, in-between opera and jazz, inspired by American musical and the popular culture of the late 1960s .

Jackie's arias Egyptian Time, Jackie"s Credo and All his bright light possess a lyrical, melancholic and exotic allure; the ones sung by Onassis - the conceited, coarse, self-made man - have, instead,echoes of Las Vegas: his I am curious and Stiff drink bring us back to Dean Martin or Sammy Davis Jr. Maria Callas, who in the '60s was beginning to lose her voice, retraces her life with the songs Addio delPassato and Flame Duet. Liz Taylor is engaged in a blues-like riff that recalls a Cat on the hot tin roof atmosphere; whereas Princess Grace Kelly trills in Doris Day fashion. Andy Warhol's aria conforms to his art: a series of modulated repetitions. In the finale dramatic climax, in Jackie's Song, Jackie duets with her dead husband's voice. Damiano Michieletto's perfect direction is lively and full of colours, and the resemblance of the singers to real characters is impressive. A great tribute to the fabulous Sixties.