Organization

Singer

Bass

Vladimir Feliauer

Attila

Soprano

Anna Markarova

Odabella

Baritone

Vladislav Sulimsky

Ezio

Tenor

Yevgeny Akimov

Foresto

Conductor

Luciano Di Martino

Costume designer

Frank Philipp Schlößmann

Hanne Loosen

Set designer

Stage director

Arturo Gama

Lighting designer

Evgeny Ganzburg

Chorus master

Andrei Petrenko

Mikhail Makarov

Uldino

Timur Abdikeyev

Leone

Ildar Abdrazakov

Mariinsky Theatre

Others

The Mariinsky Chorus

Orchestra

Orchester des Mariinski-Theaters

Saint Petersburg

Russia

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Barbarian hordes led by one of history’s most infamous warriors bear down on the northeastern Roman city of Aquileia… In Arturo Gama's exciting 2010 production of Verdi’s Attila, Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov stars as the notorious Hun pitted against the brave patriot Odabella (soprano Anna Markarova) and her countrymen Ezio (baritone Vladislav Sulimsky) and Foresto (tenor Sergei Skorokhodov). Valery Gergiev leads the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra in one of Verdi’s least well-known scores.

Styled as a historical drama, Attila is a thinly veiled nod to Verdi’s support for Italian independence, the hot-button issue of mid-19th century Italy. Loosely-inspired by Attila the Hun’s 5th century invasion of the Roman Empire, the opera explores what happens when a people rises up against foreign invaders to claim its independence. Its premiere at Venice’s La Fenice in March 1846 was met with considerable enthusiasm, yet it fell out of the standard opera repertoire until the mid-20th century, when Carlo Maria Giulini revived the opera at the 1951 Venice Festival, and has since then asserted its place among the masterpieces of the composer's œuvre.

Attila Verdi

Public

Approved

Attila by Verdi, From (2010/2010), Directed by Arturo Gama,, Conductor Luciano Di Martino, Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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