Name: La Tempesta
Start: 2022-10-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: O’Reilly Theatre

Organization

Wexford Festival Opera

Choreographer

Luisa Baldinetti

Conductor

Francesco Cilluffo

Stage director

Roberto Catalano

Set designer

Emanuele Sinisi

Costume designer

Ilaria Ariemme

Singer

Hila Baggio

Miranda

Rory Musgrave

Alfonso

Nikolai Zemlianskikh

Prospero

Richard Shaffrey

Antonio

Giorgi Manoshvili

Caliban

Jade Phoenix

Ariel

Giulio Pelligra

Ferdinand

Lighting designer

D.M. Wood

Asistant director

Anna Laura Miszerak

Associate Lighting Designer

Daisy Long

Dan D'Souza

Trinculo

Gianluca Moro

Stephano

Teatro Coccia

Emma Juengling

Sycorax

Iodáilis

La Tempesta

Wexford

Ireland

O’Reilly Theatre

La Tempesta Halévy

Public

Béarla

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Baritone

Countertenor

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Soprano

Contralto

Bass

Tenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

One of musical history’s most tantalisingly unfulfilled projects is the libretto that Mozart accepted shortly before he died, and the list composers who followed him to Prospero’s island has been brought up to date in this century by Thomas Adès.

Fromental Halévy’s La tempesta is among the most intriguing of many half-forgotten adaptations, a work in which several national traditions come together, with the creators of one of the most famous French grand-opéras of the 19th-century taking on Italian tradition in London — and appropriating Shakespeare in his own city. Adding to that mix was the then-recent memory of Mendelssohn having contemplated a Tempest opera for London. But it was Halévy, making a rare excursion away from the Parisian theatres where he was a longstanding fixture, who gave London La tempesta, premiered at Her Majesty’s Theatre in 1850.

Even though the premiere was judged a success, La tempesta soon disappeared from sight, and that despite the high pedigree of its creators. Its libretto (in an Italian adaptation by Pietro Giannone) was by none other than Eugène Scribe, the great wordsmith behind many of the 19th-century’s most successful operas. And Halévy himself — composer of some 40 operas — is a fascinating figure now remembered mainly for La Juive, the only one of his grand-opéras still heard regularly today. Even Wagner admired him, sparing him the anti-Semitic abuse he directed at Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn. Through the marriage of his daughter Geneviève, Halévy became Georges Bizet’s father-in-law, and it was left to Bizet to complete Halévy’s last opera, Noè, after the senior composer’s death. As for Geneviève, she was the inspiration for two characters in Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu. There are many layers of memory here.

English

La Tempesta by Halévy, Lua 24 Deai 2022, Ó (2022/2022), Faoi stiúir Roberto Catalano,, Seoltóir Francesco Cilluffo, O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, Ireland

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