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Direction d'orchestre

Direction d'orchestre (+7)

Christophe Rousset

Mise en scène

Mise en scène (+4)

Laurent Pelly

Décors

Massimo Troncanetti

Lumières

Lumières (+1)

Marco Giusti

Chorégraphie

Lionel Hoche

Baryton (+3)

Pietro Spagnoli

Fallito

Mattia Olivieri

Delirio

Ténor

Giovanni Sala

Sospiro

Ténor (+2)

Josh Lovell

Ritornello

Soprano (+3)

Julie Fuchs

La Stonatrilla

Soprano (+1)

Andrea Carroll

La Smorfiosa

Soprano (+2)

Serena Gamberoni

La Porporina

Baryton (+1)

Alessio Arduini

Passagallo

Ténor (+6)

Alberto Allegrezza

Bragherona

Contre-ténor (+4)

Lawrence Zazzo

Befana

Contre-ténor (+5)

Filippo Mineccia

Caverna

Orchestra

Les Talens Lyriques

Orchestre du Théâtre de La Scala de Milan

Costumes

La Scala has recently undertaken the systematic rediscovery of the Italian roots of melodrama. After looking to Venice (La Calisto by Cavalli and L’Orontea by Cesti) and Naples (Vinci’s Li zite ’ngalera), in 2025 the theatre presents an encounter of two of Italy’s premier poets, Pietro Metastasio and Ranieri de’ Calzabigi, with a Bohemian who made Venice his second home, Florian Leopold Gassman, court composer for Joseph II and Antonio Salieri’s teacher. The latter’s Opera seria, presented in Vienna in 1769 and here conducted by Christophe Rousset in a new production by Laurent Pelly with a stellar cast of young talents, is an irresistible satire of the theatre world that aptly conveys the koinè of the Gluckian reform, in which librettist Calzabigi figured prominently.

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