Organization

Admin

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Opéra National de Paris

Reżyseria

Reżyseria (+1)

Jean-Claude Auvray

Choreograf

Choreograf (+3)

Terry John Bates

Scenografia

Scenografia (+1)

Alain Chambon

Kostiumy

Maria Chiara Donato

Przygotowanie chóru

Dyrygent (+2)

Pablo Assante

Dyrygent

Nicola Luisotti

Orchestra

Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu

Mezzosopran (+7)

Laura Vila

Curra

Reżyseria światła

Reżyseria światła (+2)

Laurent Castaingt

Reżyser Odnowienia Sceny

Reżyseria (+2)

Leo Castaldi

Choreograf Odrodzenia

Paolo Ferri

Asystent dyrygenta

Dyrygent (+1)

Luis Miguel Méndez

Tenor (+1)

Moisés Marín

Mastro Trabuco

Bas (+1)

Dimitar Darlev

Un alcade

Baryton (+2)

Plamen Papazikov

Domingo Ramos

Un chirurgo

Lucas Groppo

Chorus

Choir of the Gran Teatre del Liceu

Choreograf (+1)

Roberth Aramburo

Dancer

Taniec

Anna Casasola

Kevin Donaire

Daniel Flores

Angel Gutierrez

Ariadna Jordan

Carla Pizarro

Irene Recio

Péter Zelei

Skrzypek

Gjorgi Dimčevski

Violin I

Olga Aleshinsky

Eva Pyrek

Joan Andreu Bella

Birgit Euler

Aleksandar Krapovski

Sergey Maiboroda

Oleg Shport

Raul Suárez

Enric Fernández

Oriol Algueró

Francina Moll

Ana Paula Banciu

Oleguer Beltran-Pallarés

Violin II

Rodica Monica Harda

Skrzypek (+1)

Liu Jing

Andrea Ceruti

Charles Courant

Piotr Jeczmyk

Magdalena Kostrzewska

Alexandre Polonski

Sergi Puente

Annick Puig

Kalina Macuta

Natalie Dentini

Altowiolista

Alejandro Garrido

Viola

Fulgencio Sandoval

Josep Bracero

Bettina Brandkamp

Frank Tollini

Peter Bucknell

Sergio García

Altowiolista (+1)

Nacho Gobbi

Salomé Osca

Wiolonczelista

Òscar Alabau

Cello

Guillaume Terrail

Andrea Amador

Esther Clara Braun

Matthias Weinmann

Daniel Claret

Albert Castan

Kontrabasista

João Seara

Double Bass

Enric Bassacoma

Javier Serrano

Cristian Sandu

Carlos Garcia Pupo

Flecista

Aleksandra Miletic

Flute

Sandra Luisa Batista

Oboista

Barbara Stegemann

Oboe

Enric Pellicer

Klarnecista

Dario Mariño

Clarinet

Laia Santamaria

Fagocista

Guillermo Salcedo

Bassoon

María José Rielo

Waltornista

Carles Chordà

Horn

Pablo Cadenas

Gerard Sánchez

Trębacz

Josep Anton Casado

Trumpet

Javi Cantos

David Alcaraz

Francesc Colomina

Aitor Muñoz

Puzonista

Jordi Berbegal

Trombone

Antoni Duran

Luis Bellver

Gracz Na Cimbasso (+1)

José Miguel Bernabeu

Tuba

Timpanista (+1)

Manuel Martínez

Timpani

Perkusista

Enric Albiol

Percussion

Pere Cornudella

Vicent Catalán

La forza del destino is an opera from Verdi's heyday. Premiered four years after Un ballo in maschera, a very special moment in his production, it coincides with the prevailing taste for a glimpse of the exoticism of other worlds. 

Focusing on this fascination with Spanish culture, Verdi wrote Ernani (1844), Il trovatore (1853), Don Carlo (1867) and La forza del destino (1862). The action begins with the dream of two lovers, Don Alvaro and Leonora, preparing to elope, but the two lovers are surprised by the young woman's father. Misfortune follows them when Don Alvaro, while throwing his pistols on the ground, unintentionally fires one and kills the father: fortune is capricious and laughs at the fate of men. 

Only Verdi's talent could transform a convoluted plot, filled with clichés from the Spanish Romantic school, into an opera that is a quintessential example of the 19th century Italian repertoire and a true musical miracle.

La forza is an adaptation of the play Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino, a drama in five days in prose and verse by Ángel María de Saavedra y Ramírez de Baquedano, Duke of Rivas, first performed at the Teatro del Príncipe in Madrid in 1835. Verdi and Piave were enthusiastic about the work of this curious character, a great man of Spain, the most famous playwright of his time, a painter and politician who even became president of the government for two days in 1854. 

To complete the libretto, a scene adapted from the Wallensteins Lager by Friedrich Schiller, one of Giuseppe Verdi's favourite authors, was added. Verdi travelled to St. Petersburg, capital of the Russian Empire at the time, in December 1861 to attend the première of his new opera, which had to be cancelled, but finally premiered the following November at the Bolshoi Kamenny (later Mariisnky) Theatre. 

It was the start of an anecdote charged with "bad luck" that has remained forever associated with this Verdian title, also known as "la Innominable", a so-called black legend because of its numerous problems both in production and staging, including real deaths on stage. A great Italian fresco full of plot twists in which the curse of the father hangs heavy and overshadows everything. 

La Forza, like Rigoletto and Il Trovatore, is also a work of its time. In 1861, Verdi agreed to become a member of parliament to pursue his political ideals. However, "Il Risorgimento" was more ambitious than Verdi wanted, and the composer fell prey to a degree of scepticism. That same dark melancholy pervades the entire score, where the motif of fate recurs throughout the idea of redemption. In this co-production between the Opéra de Paris and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, directed by Jean-Claude Auvray, the opera becomes a place where dreams shatter against the wall of reality while a faint but toxic song of hope emerges. 

An immense canvas for this opera with minimalist scenography, full of romantic details and a score that demands sublime performers like Maria Agresta and Saioa Hernández to find all the nuances of Leonora's emotion (from joy through to the resignation of the last broken heart). Accompanying these is a cast featuring Brian Jagde as Don Alvaro, the man she loves, and Artur Rucinski, Don Carlo, the dark instrument of her destiny. Maestro Nicola Luisotti's brilliant conducting is a lesson in Verdian style applied to scenes of grand lyricism and refinement, alternating with comic passages.

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