Name: Ernani
Start: 2014-04-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-04-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Salle Garnier

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Tenor

Ramón Vargas

Ernani

Baritone

Ludovic Tézier

Don Carlo

Bass

Alexander Vinogradov

Don Ruy Gomez de Silva

Soprano

Svetla Vassileva

Elvira

Karine Ohanyan

Giovanna

Maurizio Pace

Don Riccardo

Gabriele Ribis

Jago

Conductor

Daniele Callegari

Stage director

Jean-Louis Grinda

Costume designer

Teresa Acone

Set designer

Isabelle Partiot-Pieri

Lighting designer

Laurent Castaingt

Chorus master

Stefano Visconti

Opéra Royal de Wallonie - Liège

Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Others

Choeur de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Orchestra

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Monaco

Salle Garnier

Giuseppe Verdi’s Ernani is a vibrant adaptation for the lyric stage of one of the most flamboyant dramas by the French poet. Both the composer and his librettist have combined Hugo’s verbal eloquence with the right musical temperament. Perfect example of Grand opera with chorus, the magnificent Act III is above all the first time Verdi draws the very precise contours of what is about to become a type of voice in itself: the Verdi-baritone. In Ernani he starts to focus as never before on the psychological side of his characters. All his operas after Ernani will follow the same path in his perpetual quest of the truth.

The four-act opera Ernani by Verdi was performed by the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, in 2014. Verdi based his opera Ernani on the play “Hernani” by Victor Hugo. Librettist Francesco Maria Piave wrote the texts for this well-known opera. Ever since the first performance in 1844, the opera was immensely popular. It became Verdi’s most popular opera until it was superseded by “Il trovatore,” in 1853. Today, Ernani is still a regularly performed opera all over the world. This performance, with a beautiful staging by Jean-Louis Grinda, is conducted by Daniele Callegari. Renowed solists perform with the Choeur & Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo. The solo parts are sung by Ramon Vargas, Ludovic Tézier, Alexander Vinogradov, Svetla Vassileva, Karine Ohanyan, Maurizio Pace, and Gabriele Ribis.

tage director Jean-Louis Grinda and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo present Verdi’s early smash hit opera Ernani. Ramon Vargas heads up an incredible cast in the heroic title role and maestro Daniele Callegari leads the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra in the sumptuous melodies of Verdi’s score.

Ernani marked a pivotal turning point in Verdi’s career. Only his fifth opera, it would be the first in an incredibly successful collaboration with librettist Francesco Maria Piave. It was also the first opera that Verdi was able to create entirely on his own terms: his previous successes had delivered him the authority to choose the theater, singers, subject, and libretto he wanted, and the subsequent triumph of Ernani would prove this freedom suited him! Given free reign, the young composer chose Victor Hugo’s 1830 drama Hernani, a work of unapologetic Romanticism that had already stolen the hearts of audiences across Europe. In setting Hugo’s play, Verdi and Piave stick closely to the original text. The plot turns around Elvira, a fragile heroine desired by three men—the tenor Ernani (the prototypical passionate lover), the baritone Carlo (King of Spain), and the bass Silva (the abusive uncle)—who ferociously battle for her hand...

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