Organization

Rossini Opera Festival

Singer

Bass

Paolo Bordogna

Fabrizio Vingradito

Mezzo-soprano

Kleopatra Papatheologou

Lucia

Tenor

Dmitry Korchak

Giannetto

Soprano

Mariola Cantarero

Ninetta

Baritone

Alex Esposito

Fernando Villabella

Contralto

Manuela Custer

Pippo

Stefan Cifolelli

Isacco the peddlar

Cosimo Panozzo

Antonio

Vittorio Prato

Giorgio

Matteo Ferrara

Ernesto

Prefetto

Conductor

Lü Jia

Stage director

Damiano Michieletto

Costume designer

Carla Teti

Set designer

Paulo Fantin

Michele Pertusi

The Mayor

Sandhya Nagaraja

Una gazza

Chorus master

Lubomír Mátl

Orchestra

Orchestra Sinfonica Haydn di Bolzano e Trento

Others

Coro da Camera di Praga

La gazza ladra -  (The Thieving Magpie)

Pesaro

Italy

Vitrifrigo Arena

La gazza ladra is a "opera semiseria"; It is about a maid accused of stealing some cutlery with which the title magpie has escaped from her nest. Apparently light, the opera was based on a true story in which a young woman was sentenced to death for the bird crime.

The overture perfectly combines the episodic color with the heavier drama of the symphonic sonata form. It features a parade of delightful themes and effects, including a particularly famous one presented by an oboe, anticipating the characters and action to come, and then, following a spectacular crescendo, rework several of these themes in a mini-development section.

La gazza ladra by G.Rossini, from ROF Rossini Opera Festival, 2007. Directed by Damiano Michieletto, conductor Lü Jia, starring Mariola Cantarero, Alex Esposito, Dmitry Korchak, Michele Pertusi, Paolo Bordogna, Manuela Custer, Stefan Cifolelli, Sandhya Nagaraja and Kleopatra Papatheologou. Performed in Italian and subtitled in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian.

La gazza ladra Rossini

The Thieving Magpie

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