Matilde di Shabran

Composer: Rossini, Gioachino

Librettist/Text Author: Ferretti, Jacopo

Conductor: Mariotti, Michele

Orchestra: Bologna Teatro Comunale Orchestra

Chorus: Bologna Teatro Comunale Chorus

Chorus Master: Fratini, Lorenzo

Aliprando: Alaimo, Nicola

Contessa d'Arco: Chialli, Chiara

Corradino: Florez, Juan Diego

Edoardo: Goryachova, Anna

Egoldo: Misseri, Giorgio

Ginardo: Orfila, Simon

Isidoro: Bordogna, Paolo

Matilde di Shabran: Peretyatko, Olga

Raimondo Lopez: Romano, Marco Filippo

Rodrigo: Rosati, Ugo

Set Designer: Tramonti, Sergio

Costume Designer: Patzak, Ursula

Lighting Designer: Mari, Pasquale

Stage Director: Martone, Mario

Television Director: Mancini, Tiziano

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Date of Production: 2012

Festival: Rossini Opera Festival

Playing Time: 03:38:08

Catalogue Number: A00009026

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The press hailed the premiere of Matilde di Shabran as the "high point of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro" (Der Tagesspiegel). Leading the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, conductor Michele Mariotti commands a perfect roster of singers: tenorissimo Juan Diego Florez, "perhaps the best Rossini tenor of our time" (Deutschlandradio), sings the role of Corradino; Matilde is breathtakingly and "gorgeously sung by Olga Peretyatko" (The N.Y. Times). Mario Martone's production gives pride of place to two spiral staircases that allow grand entrances, exits – and displays of athleticism!