La Cambiale di Matrimonio

Composer: Rossini, Gioachino

Librettist/Text Author: Rossi, Gaetano

Conductor: Gelmetti, Gianluigi

Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

Clarina: Felle, Amelia

Edoardo Milfort: Kuebler, David

Fanny: Hall, Janice

Norton: Feller, Carlos

Slook: Rinaldi, Alberto

Tobia Mill: Del Carlo, John

Set Designer: Tommasi, Carlo

Costume Designer: Diappi, Carlo Maria

Lighting Designer: Toelstede, Hans

Stage Director: Hampe, Michael

Television Producer: Konzelmann, Gerhard

Television Director: Viller, Claus

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Date of Production: 09-05-1989

Festival: Schwetzingen Festival

Venue: Rococo Theatre, Schwetzingen

Playing Time: 01:19:00

Catalogue Number: EuroArts5496

UPC: 880242549686

Synopsis

La Cambiale di Matrimonio (NTSC)

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Rossini's first staged opera already contains all the elements that would take the music world by storm in Il barbiere di Siviglia, L'italiana in Algeri and La Cenerentola in the years to come: melodic inventiveness, ingenious connections between sung lines and orchestral accompaniment in the exuberant finale, musical humour and ensembles using breathtakingly fast parlando singing. This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival with excellent direction, acting and stagecraft. Director Michael Hampe created a perfect realization of the opera in the small, jewel-like Rococo Theatre of Schwetzingen Palace in May 1989. The staging is perfectly suited to the screen and the cast of principals, led by John Del Carlo; Janice Hall and David Kuebler provide musical excellence together with the flexible Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. The lively performance is led by Gianluigi Gelmetti, who was awarded the Rossini d'Oro Prize in 1999.