Organization

Donizetti Opera

Conductor

Sesto Quatrini

Stage director

Gianluca Falaschi

Set designer

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Emanuele Agliati

Dramaturge

Mattia Palma

Chorus master

Salvo Sgrò

Singer

Bass

Pietro Spagnoli

Don Meschino

Soprano

Aleksandrina Mihaylova

Chiara

Greta Doveri

Mezzo-soprano

Fan Zhou

Serafina

Nicole Wacker

Tenor

Hyun Seo Park

Don Ramiro

Matías Moncada

Don Fernando

Baritone

Sung-Hwan Damien Park

Picaro

Contralto

Valentina Pluzhnikova

Lisetta

Mara Gaudenzi

Agnese

Don Alvaro

Giuseppe De Luca

Gennaro

Andrea Tanzillo

Spalatro

Alberto Zanardi

Manuel Renga

Luisa Bertoli

Angela Schisano

Alessio Fortune

Eugenio Maria Degiacomi

Salvatore Alfano

Gaetano Donizetti

Michele Magni

Felice Romani

Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

Others

Coro dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala

Orchestra

Orchestra Gli originali

Italian

Chiara o Serafina?

Bergamo

Italy

Teatro Sociale

Public

Private

Chiara e Serafina, ossia I pirati

Approved

The rediscovery of the 2022 DO is certainly Chiara e Serafina, the title of the #Donizetti200 project, with which in every edition of the Festival we present an opera written by Donizetti two hundred years earlier. In 1822, with Chiara e Serafina 25-year-old Gaetano made his debut at La Scala. For contingent reasons, due above all to Felice Romani’s considerable delay in delivering the libretto, which forced the composer to work even faster than usual, this semi-serious opera was a “fiascone decisissimo” (‘a huge fiasco’), to quote another of Donizetti’s librettos, that of Le convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali. Since then, Chiara e Serafina has never been performed. At the Teatro Sociale, the Festival offers this opera the chance to take a curtain call without the inconveniences of a world premiere, entrusting it to a company of young singers and to the Choir of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, with the great Pietro Spagnoli as chaperone in the role of Don Meschino. On the podium, a rising Italian conductor, Sesto Quatrini; direction, set designs and costumes by Gianluca Falaschi; the orchestra Gli Originali continues its exploration of the original instruments of Donizetti’s time.

English

Chiara o Serafina? by Donizetti, From (2022/2022), Directed by Gianluca Falaschi, Manuel Renga,, Conductor Sesto Quatrini, Alberto Zanardi, Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, Italy

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