Organization

Admin

Wexford Festival Opera

Direttore d'orchestra

Direttore d'orchestra (+1)

Francesco Cilluffo

Regia

Regia (+2)

Stefano Ricci

Scenografia

Coreografia

Stellario Di Blasi

Luci

Luci (+1)

Daniele Naldi

Assistente alla regia

Assistente alla regia (+1)

Liliana Laera

Costumi

Costumi (+1)

Gianluca Sbicca

Assistente scenografo

Scenografia (+1)

Eleonora De Leo

Soprano (+1)

Lavinia Bini

Rosaura

Tenore (+3)

Benoît-Joseph Meier

Arlecchino Battocchio

Soprano

Ioana Pipelea

Colombina

Tenore (+2)

Gillen Munguía

Brighella

Baritono (+1)

Matteo Mancini

Il Capitan Spavento

Baritono (+3)

Rory Musgrave

Dottor Graziano

Andrew Morstein

Florindo

Baritono (+2)

Peter McCamley

Giocadio

Basso-baritono (+2)

Giorgio Caoduro

Tartaglia

Basso (+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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