Organization

Conductor

Alvise Casellati

Stage director

Luca De Fusco

Set designer

Marta Crisolini Malatesta

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Gigi Saccomandi

Singer

Soprano

Lucrezia Drei

Carolina

Francesca Benitez

Elisetta

Mezzo-soprano

Martina Belli

Fidalma

Tenor

Juan Francisco Gatell

Paolino

Bass

Omar Montanari

Count Robinson

Video designer

Alessandro Papa

Pietro Di Bianco

Geronimo

Teatro La Fenice

Others

Coro del Teatro La Fenice

Orchestra

Orchestra Del Teatro La Fenice

Italian

Il matrimonio segreto -  (The Secret Marriage)

Venice

Italy

Il matrimonio segreto

Public

The Secret Marriage

Approved

Il matrimonio segreto è l’unica opera comica settecentesca stabile in repertorio dai tempi dell’esordio ad oggi, ad eccezione della ‘trilogia dapontiana’ di Mozart: al lavoro è spettato il compito di rappresentare l’idea stessa di opera buffa, e un’immagine dell’intero Settecento, come epoca dell’equilibrio
perduto, fatta di moderazione e ragionevolezza, equilibrio che nella gradevolezza della musica di Cimarosa trovava un’eloquente effigie sonora

nuovo allestimento Fondazione Teatro La Fenice

italiano

The only work by Cimarosa still regularly performed, it is perhaps among the best opere buffe of the eighteenth century. The Secret Marriage , music by Domenico Cimarosa to a libretto by Giovanni Bertati, consists of two acts based on the play The Clandestine Marriage by George Colman and David Garrick (1776). The protagonist is the rich Bolognese merchant Geronimo, a social climber whose family includes his daughters Elisetta and Carolina, his sister Fidalma and the secretary Paolino, Carolina's secret husband. Before true love triumphs, many misunderstandings and twists and turns take place. The debut took place on February 7, 1792 at the Viennese Hofburg theater, in the presence of Emperor Leopold II; but the urban legend of a full-length encore on the same night lacks proof.

with surtitles in Italian and English,
new staging by Fondazione Teatro La Fenic

English

The Secret Marriage by Cimarosa, From (2023/2023), Directed by Luca De Fusco,, Conductor Alvise Casellati, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy

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