Organization

Singer

Soprano

Renée Fleming

Armida

Tenor

Lawrence Brownlee

Rinaldo

Bruce Ford

Goffredo

John Osborn

Gernando

Barry Banks

Carlo

Kobie van Rensburg

Ubaldo

Yeghishe Manucharyan

Eustazio

Bass

Peter Volpe

Idraote

Conductor

Riccardo Frizza

Stage director

Mary Zimmerman

Costume designer

Richard Hudson

Set designer

The Metropolitan Opera

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Rossini’s rarely performed opera about medieval knights, the Crusades, a beautiful but evil sorceress and an enchanted island calls for not only a soprano of almost superhuman abilities but also requires no fewer than six tenors. International opera star Renée Fleming dazzles in the spectacular role of Armida, who undermines the Crusaders by spiriting away the knight Rinaldo whom she loves—only to lose him at the end, which provokes her awesomely destructive fury. Lawrence Brownlee is Rinaldo, who owes his life to Armida but is torn between his patriotic duty and his love for the enchantress. With tenors John Osborn as Goffredo, Kobie van Rensburg as Ubaldo, and Barry Banks as Carlo. Riccardo Frizza conducts.

Armida Rossini

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Rossini’s rarely performed opera about medieval knights, the Crusades, a beautiful but evil sorceress and an enchanted island calls for not only a soprano of almost superhuman abilities but also requires no fewer than six tenors. International opera star Renée Fleming dazzles in the spectacular role of Armida, who undermines the Crusaders by spiriting away the knight Rinaldo whom she loves—only to lose him at the end, which provokes her awesomely destructive fury. Lawrence Brownlee is Rinaldo, who owes his life to Armida but is torn between his patriotic duty and his love for the enchantress. With tenors John Osborn as Goffredo, Kobie van Rensburg as Ubaldo, and Barry Banks as Carlo. Riccardo Frizza conducts.

FULL SYNOPSIS

English

Armida by Rossini, From (2011/2011), Directed by Mary Zimmerman,, Conductor Riccardo Frizza, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, United States

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