Roberto Devereux

Composer: Donizetti, Gaetano

Librettist/Text Author: Cammarano, Salvatore

Conductor: Campanella, Bruno

Orchestra: Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra

Chorus: Madrid Teatro Real Chorus

Chorus Master: Maspero, Andres

Elisabetta / Regina d'Inghilterra: Devia, Mariella

Lord Duca di Nottingham: Caria, Marco

Lord Guglielmo Cecil: Sanabria, Juan Antonio

Roberto Devereux / Conte di Essex: Kunde, Gregory

Sara / Duchessa di Nottingham: Tro Santafe, Silvia

Sir Gualtiero Raleigh: Mastroni, Andrea

Set Designer: Boyd, Madeleine

Costume Designer: Boyd, Madeleine

Lighting Designer: Haskins, Matthew

Choreographer: Braham, Maxine

Stage Director: Talevi, Alessandro

Television Director: Lebard, Stephane

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Venue: Teatro Real, Madrid

Playing Time: 02:16:50

Catalogue Number: BAC130

UPC: 3760115301306

Synopsis

Roberto Devereux (NTSC)

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In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux, one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Gaetano Donizetti in 1837 along with Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Il Castello di Kenilworth, the protagonist, Queen Elizabeth I of England, exclaims: "I do not reign, I do not live". This statement encapsulates great operatic themes, and it is the culmination of an opera that reveals the passions of characters who live among palace intrigues.

Written in the mature period of the leader of Italian romanticism, the opera displays a great vocal virtuosity, and is an example of Donizetti prizing the voice above all in the genre. The staging, by South African director Alessandro Talevi, who has been very successful in great opera houses as well as with more experimental theatre, places the play in an undetermined period, focusing on the chiaroscuro.