Organization

Singer

Soprano

Yolanda Auyanet

Elizabeth

Conductor

Yves Abel

Stage director

Alessandro Talevi

Set designer

Madeleine Boyd

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Matthew Haskins

Choreographer

Maxine Braham

Baritone

Franco Vassallo

The Duke of Nottingham

Mezzo-soprano

Nancy Fabiola Herrera

Sara

Tenor

Ismael Jordi

Roberto Devereux

Alejandro del Cerro

Lord Cecil

Bass

Javier Castañeda

Sir Walter Raleigh

Contralto

Ricardo Llamas Márquez

A page

A servant of Nottingham

Teatro Maestranza

Orchestra

Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla

Others

Choir of the Teatro de la Maestranza

Seville

Spain

Teatro de la Maestranza

Sala Principal

Roberto Devereux Donizetti

Public

Approved

¿Puede un poder terrenal librarnos de la vejez y la muerte? ¿Se puede forzar a alguien a amar a quien no ama? La reina Isabel I de Inglaterra ama a Roberto D...

Bel Canto, ice that scorches

Can some earthly power save us from old age and death? Can one force a person to love someone whom one does not actually love? Queen Elizabeth I of England loves Roberto Devereux. But, he loves another. With her leadership defeated by heartbreak and decrepitude, the queen falters. She sings: “I no longer reign, no longer live...” Passion and palace conspiracies intertwine in Roberto Devereux (1837), a mature opera by Gaetano Donizetti. The final work of his”Tudor Queens” trilogy, the Maestranza concludes its cycle to coincide with the 225th anniversary of the birth of the composer from Bergamo. The opera is based in historical fact but fictionized in an exacerbated romantic tragedy that calls for fevered vocal virtuosity. Canarian Yolanda Auyanet and Jerez tenor Ismael Jordi, a master of Bel canto who returns to our theatre, take on two of the most demanding roles of the repertory. Canadian conductor Yves Abel, is a specialist in Italian opera, having triumphed in Berlin, Vienna or New York. The production comes from the Welsh National Opera and has been a success in important European opera houses.

Runaway passion, political intrigue, jealousy, abuse of authority and revenge. Love and death in Roberto Devereux, zenith of Bel canto, comes to the stage for the first time at the Maestranza.

español

Can some earthly power save us from old age and death? Can one force a person to love someone whom one does not actually love? Queen Elizabeth I of England loves Roberto Devereux. But, he loves another. With her leadership defeated by heartbreak and decrepitude, the queen falters. She sings: “I no longer reign, no longer live...” Passion and palace conspiracies intertwine in Roberto Devereux (1837), a mature opera by Gaetano Donizetti. The final work of his”Tudor Queens” trilogy, the Maestranza concludes its cycle to coincide with the 225th anniversary of the birth of the composer from Bergamo. The opera is based in historical fact but fictionized in an exacerbated romantic tragedy that calls for fevered vocal virtuosity. Canarian Yolanda Auyanet and Jerez tenor Ismael Jordi, a master of Bel canto who returns to our theatre, take on two of the most demanding roles of the repertory. Canadian conductor Yves Abel, is a specialist in Italian opera, having triumphed in Berlin, Vienna or New York. The production comes from the Welsh National Opera and has been a success in important European opera houses.

Runaway passion, political intrigue, jealousy, abuse of authority and revenge. Love and death in Roberto Devereux, zenith of Bel canto, comes to the stage for the first time at the Maestranza.

English

Roberto Devereux by Donizetti, From (2022/2022), Directed by Alessandro Talevi,, Conductor Yves Abel, Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville, Spain

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