Name: Zazà
Start: 2015-11-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-11-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

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Soprano

Ermonela Jaho

Zazà

Tenor

Riccardo Massi

Milio Dufresne

Mezzo-soprano

Patricia Bardon

Anaide

Baritone

David Stout

Bussy

Kathryn Rudge

Natalia

Fflur Wyn

Floriana

Conductor

Maurizio Benini

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Others

BBC Singers

Spoken

Actor

Julia Ferri

Totó Dufresne

Stephen Gaertner

Cascart

Simon Thorpe

Duclou

Bass-baritone

Nicky Spence

Courtois

Orchestra

Chorus master

Renato Balsadonna

Stage director

Susannah Waters

Opera Rara

Barbican Centre

italiensk

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

Opera

Cristian Damir Martinez Vega

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With the release of Zazà, we marked our first recording venture into the musical world of Leoncavallo and the operatic tradition of verismo. Maurizio Benini leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ermonela Jaho in her recording debut as the eponymous Zazà. Jaho is joined by Riccardo Massi as her lover Milio; Stephen Gaertner as her onstage partner and former lover Cascart; and Patricia Bardon as her mother Anaide. Written in 1900 for the Teatro Lirico di Milano and conducted at its première by Toscanini, Zazà was Leoncavallo’s most popular opera after Pagliacci. In the 20 years following its première, Zazà received over 50 new productions in opera houses around the world and became the chosen showcase for famous sopranos such as Rosina Storchio, who created the role, and Geraldine Farrar. With its infectious dance tunes and colourful orchestration making use of French popular music styles which Leoncavallo would have encountered in the capital, the verismo of Zazà is a far cry from the harsh, low-life realism of Pagliacci. Yet, where the composer’s first opera remains one of the most performed operatic works today, Zazà has all but fallen out of the repertory. Opera Rara’s revival of Zazà is based on Leoncavallo’s own 1919 revision of his score which has been carefully researched by Maurizio Benini.

Leoncavallo's Zazà | 'Ah Perche soletta sei laggiù?' | Opera Rara Chorus, Maurizio Benini, BBCSO

Zazà by Leoncavallo, Fra (2015/2015), Instrueret af Susannah Waters, Dirigent Maurizio Benini, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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