Name: L'assedio di Calais
Start: 2017-10-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Huntington Theater

Organization

Chanteur

Baryton

James Westman

Eustachio de Saint Pierre

Mezzo-soprano

Magda Gartner

Aurelio

Soprano

Lucia Cesaroni

Eleonora

Ténor

Neal Ferreira

Giovanni d'Aire

Alan Schneider

Giacomo de Wisants

James Demler

Pietro de Wisants

Basse

Christopher Carbin

Armando

John Allen Nelson

Eduardo III

Sumner Thompson

Edmundo

Deborah Selig

Isabella

Direction d'orchestre

Gil Rose

Mise en scène

Joshua Major

Décors

Dan Daly

Costumes

Brooke Stanton

Lumières

Dennis Parichy

Luke Scott

Una spia inglese

Odyssey Opera

Orchestra

italien

L'assedio di Calais -  (Le siège de Calais)

Boston

États-Unis

The Huntington Theater

L'assedio di Calais Donizetti

Public

Le siège de Calais

anglais

Valide

Gaetano Donizetti’s opera L’assedio di Calais (The Siege of Calais) focuses on tales of courage and self-sacrifice arising from the bleak conditions of Edward the III's year-long siege of Calais during the Hundred Years’ War. This rarely-heard Italian bel canto work was well received at the time of its premier, but an ill-timed cholera outbreak saw it close prematurely. It would be 150 years before the work was rediscovered. Recent revivals have shown it to be an opera of great beauty and poetry with truly remarkable music. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto, which has been described as "...a remarkable libretto, the closest Cammarano ever got to real poetry, particularly in his description of the embattled city and the heartfelt pride of its citizens."

“This tale of courage, self-sacrifice, and wartime could be set in the present day,” explains Gil Rose, Odyssey Opera’s Artistic and General Director. “Besieged cities are found throughout history, from Calais during the Hundred Years’ War, through Stalingrad during World War Two, to Aleppo in Syria” 

. . . 
James Westman // Eustachio de Saint-Pierre, Mayor of Calais
Magda Gartner // Aurelio, his son
Lucia Cesaroni // Eleanora 
Neal Ferreira // Giovanni d’Aire, burgher
Alan Schneider // Giacomo de Wisants, burgher
James Demler // Pietro de Wisants, burgher
Christopher Carbin // Armando, burgher 
John Allen Nelson, Baritone // Eduardo III, King of England
Sumner Thompson // Edmundo, English General 
. . .
Gil Rose // Conductor
Joshua Major // Stage Director
. . .
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano based on Luigi Marchionni’s play L’assedio di Calais
Sung in Italian with English titles

Video by Kathy Wittman, Ball Square Films

Donizetti’s L’assedio di Calais (The Siege of Calais) focuses on the bleak wartime and tales of courage and self-sacrifice in Edward the III’s year-long Siege of Calais during the Hundred Years’ War. This rarely-heard Italian bel canto work has undeservedly been absent from the operatic stage but recent revivals have shown it to be a work of great beauty and poetry. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto, which has been described as “…a remarkable libretto, the closest Cammarano ever got to real poetry, particularly in his description of the embattled city and the heartfelt pride of its citizens.” eng

English

Le siège de Calais by Donizetti, Du (2017/2017), Dirigé par Joshua Major,, Chef d'orchestre Gil Rose, The Huntington Theater, Boston, États-Unis

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