Organization

Lumières

Joachim Klein

Costumes

Susanne Uhl

Video

Marlene Blumert

Direction de choeur

Tilman Michael

Chanteur

Contralto

Maria Ostroukhova

Falliero

Mise en scène

Tilmann Köhler

Direction d'orchestre

Giuliano Carella

Décors

Karoly Risz

Dramaturgie

Zsolt Horpácsy

Basse

Božidar Smiljanić

Priuli

Ténor

Theo Lebow

Contareno

Kihwan Sim

Capellio

Beth Taylor

Soprano

Heather Phillips

Bianca

Carlos Andrés Cárdenas

Un cancelliere del Consiglio dei Tre

Oper Frankfurt

Others

Choir of the Frankfurt Opera

Orchestra

Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester

italien

Bianca e Falliero -  (Bianca et Falliero)

Francfort-sur-le-Main

Allemagne

Opernhaus

Bianca e Falliero Rossini

Public

Bianca et Falliero

allemand

anglais

Valide

“Der Sopranistin Heather Phillips gelingt ein famoses Debüt” - Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung. Heather made her European debut as Bianca in Rossini’s Bianca e Falliero in 2022 at Oper Frankfurt. Video highlights showcase her in this bel canto drama, the last Rossini composed for Teatro alla Scala.

Video: Courtesy of Thiemo Hehl, Oper Frankfurt
Director: Tilmann Köhler 
Conductor: Giuliano Carella
Cover Photo: Barbara Aumüller

Bianca e Falliero - Trailer

A city strives for world power, it uncovers conspiracies, defeats its enemies and isolates itself for fear of threats. Behind its walls, the miniature state of Venice suppresses every form of individuality and love. The inhuman system freezes.

The family drama Bianca e Falliero , Rossini's last opera written for La Scala in Milan, is set in this oppressive atmosphere. It is one of his charming but - wrongly - rarely performed works. The librettist Felice Romani combines an espionage story with a variant of the story of Romeo and Juliet, with the feuding families this time in a long-standing inheritance dispute.

Bianca, the daughter of Senator Contareno, secretly loves General Falliero, but her father's political and financial interests threaten their love. Bianca is mercilessly used as a hostage in the family feud. Falliero, the defender of the state, returns from the war just as Bianca is about to be forced into a marriage with Capellio. The conflicts are inevitable, Bianca's ordeal between fatherly love as the original bond and the promised devotion to the beloved gave Rossini the opportunity to expand his means of expression.

This time the virtuoso coloraturas are far removed from any bel canto acrobatics. The decorative art in the large-scale scenes of the protagonists serves as a stylistic device in the depiction of a four-way conflict. This bold concept in shaping the vocal parts was Rossini's Semiseria's undoing. Not least because of the high vocal demands, the opera was not able to establish itself during the composer's lifetime. It was only rediscovered in 1986 in Rossini's native town of Pesaro and revealed its extraordinary qualities.

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