Name: Crispino e la comare
Start: 2023-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Alexander Kasser Theater

Organization

Conductor

Jonathan Brandani

Singer

Baritone

Mattia Venni

Crispino

Soprano

Teresa Castillo

Annetta

Mezzo-soprano

Liz Culpepper

La Comare

Dorian McCall

Fabrizio

Tenor

Toby Bradford

Contino del Fiore

Bass

Vincent Grana

Mirabolano

Bass-baritone

Scott Clark

Asdrubale

Jeremy Luis Lopez

Bortolo

Abigail Lysinger

Lisetta

Others

Teatro Nuovo Chorus

Orchestra

Teatro Nuovo Orchestra

Teatro Nuovo

Crispino e la comare -  (Crispino and the Fairy Godmother)

New York City

United States

Rose Theater

Montclair

Alexander Kasser Theater

Public

Crispino and the Fairy Godmother

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Crispino e la comare Ricci

If you ask operagoers how many Italian comedies they can think of between Don Pasquale (1843) and Falstaff (1893), most would have to answer “none.” Did one of Italy’s most beloved traditions simply disappear for a full half-century? 

Of course it didn’t; the comic theaters were busy and full of successes. The problem is simply that none of the new composers established a long enough hold on the public to be remembered today. Only Verdi did that, in those years, and Verdi stayed away from opera buffa until the very end.

Quite a few of the others were very good, however, and their best pieces combine the sparkle inherited from Rossini and Donizetti with the intriguing new harmonies and orchestral colors of the later Romantics. 

Two of the best were the Ricci brothers from Naples, Luigi (1805-1859) and Federico (1809-1877). Between them they produced 49 operas, comic and serious alike. Mostly they worked separately, but on four occasions they helped each other out to fill a commission. One of those was Crispino e la Comare, their biggest “hit” among many. 

The libretto was by Francesco Maria Piave, author of La Traviata, Rigoletto, La Forza del Destino and so many others for Verdi.

English

Crispino and the Fairy Godmother by Ricci, Luigi, Ó (2023/2023), Seoltóir Jonathan Brandani, Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair, United States

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Léirmheasanna

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid