Organization

Admin

Wexford Festival Opera

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Francesco Cilluffo

Stage director

Stage director (+2)

Stefano Ricci

Set designer

Choreographer

Stellario Di Blasi

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Daniele Naldi

Assistant Stage Director

Assistant Stage Director (+1)

Liliana Laera

Costume designer

Costume designer (+1)

Gianluca Sbicca

Assistant Set Designer

Set designer (+1)

Eleonora De Leo

Soprano (+1)

Lavinia Bini

Rosaura

Tenor (+3)

Benoît-Joseph Meier

Arlecchino Battocchio

Soprano

Ioana Pipelea

Colombina

Tenor (+2)

Gillen Munguía

Brighella

Baritone (+1)

Matteo Mancini

Il Capitan Spaventa

Baritone (+3)

Rory Musgrave

Dottor Graziano

Andrew Morstein

Florindo

Baritone (+2)

Peter McCamley

Giocadio

Bass-baritone (+2)

Giorgio Caoduro

Tartaglia

Bass (+2)

Mariano Orozco

Pantalone de' Bisognosi

O'Reilly Theatre

Orchestra

Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera

Chorus

Wexford Festival Opera Chorus

Overview
Opera in a prologue and three acts by Pietro Mascagni
Libretto by Luigi Illica

Fully-Staged Production
Sung in Italian with English surtitles

First Performance

Italy, 1901
Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa
Teatro Regio, Turin
Teatro Costanzi, Rome
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Teatro Filarmonico, Verona

Background
It’s Mascagni’s homage to Rossini and to the Italian opera buffa and commedia dell’arte traditions. It was premiered simultaneously in six Italian opera houses but, apart from Rome, the reception was subdued. While it has often been held that Mascagni was a ‘one opera man’ who could never repeat the success of Cavalleria rusticana, this verdict has already been debunked by Wexford’s four previous Mascagni productions, most recently Guglielmo Ratcliff in 2015.

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