Organization

Singer

Soprano

Maria Pia Piscitelli

Anna

Baritone

Alberto Gazale

Guglielmo Wulf

Michele Kalmandy

Tenor

Matteo Lippi

Roberto

Conductor

Pier Giorgio Morandi

Stage director

Cristina Pezzoli

Set designer

Giacomo Andrico

Costume designer

Andrea Grazia

Lighting designer

Mauro Panizza

Choreographer

Fernando Melo

Chorus master

Stefano Colò

I Teatri di Reggio Emilia

Teatro Comunale di Modena

Others

Associazione Coro Lirico Terre Verdiane - Fondazione  Teatro Comunale di Modena

Orchestra

Filarmonica dell'Opera Italiana Briuno Bartoletti

Teatro Valli di Reggio Emilia

Le Villi -  (The Will-o-the-Wisps)

Reggio Emilia

Italy

Teatro Municipale Valli

Private

The Will-o-the-Wisps

Approved

Ecco La Casa...Torna ai Felici Dì Le Villi - Teatro Luciano Pavarotti Modena

tenore Matteo Lippi  Ecco La Casa...Torna ai Felici Dì Le Villi - Teatro Luciano Pavarotti Modena

Puccini's first work, written for a competition that did not reward it (the Sonzogno of 1883 won by Zuelli), Le Vili was immediately resumed, thanks also to the publisher Ricordi, with a full success that did not fail in the following years (he directed it also Mahler in 1892).

Set in the Black Forest and based on a fantastic subject (the same romantic ballet Giselle, from 1841), with a female character (Anna) who is the first of Puccini's heroines dedicated to love to the point of sacrifice - Le Villi already shows the compositional qualities that Puccini would develop in the following years. "Puccini has something more", writes Ricordi: he knew he had found what he had been looking for for decades: a "true teacher" - that is, Verdi's heir.

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