Ero e Leandro

Composer: Bottesini, Giovanni

Librettist/Text Author: Boito, Arrigo

Conductor: Salvagno, Aldo

Orchestra: Orchestra Filarmonica del Piemonte

Chorus: Budapest Monteverdi Choir

Chorus Master: Gini, Bruno

Ariofarne: Scandiuzzi, Roberto

Ero: Mercier, Veronique

Leandro: Pasolini, Gian Luca

Set Designer: Zurla, Gregorio

Costume Designer: Barreca, Stefania

Lighting Designer: Ferrari, Gianfranco

Stage Director: Borello, Laura

Stage Director: Zurla, Gregorio

Television Director: Zurla, Riccardo

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Venue: Teatro San Domenico, Crema

Playing Time: 01:42:56

Catalogue Number: 33670

UPC: 8007144336707

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Known mainly as the Paganini of the double bass, Giovanni Bottesini was in fact one of the most eclectic figures of Italian music in the second half of the nineteenth century. His Ero e Leandro met with great success whet it premiered in 1879, a success witnessed by the 28 performances that followed, an absolutely unthinkable number today.

After the composer's death it disappeared from the repertoire, only to be revived with the present staging. The score, stylistically comparable to the late Verdi, reveals unusual attention to orchestration and uses richly chromatic language. It may be set alongside operas like Ponchielli's La Gioconda and Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele, often showing a high quality of melodic inspiration.