Organization

Ravenna Festival

Conductor

Pietro Borgonovo

Stage director

Davide Broccoli

Alessandro Benigni

Cristina Mazzavillani Muti

Set designer

Lighting designer

Vincent Longuemare

Video designer

image consultant

Paolo Miccichè

Sound designer

Alessandro Baldessari

Costume designer

Alessandro Lai

Luigi Barilone

Chorus master

Martino Faggiani

Massimo Fiocchi Malaspina

Singer

Baritone

Serban Vasile

Nabucco

Tenor

Riccardo Rados

Ishmael

Bass

Evgeny Stavinsky

Zachary

Soprano

Alessandra Gioia

Abigail

Lucyna Jarząbek

Fenena

Giacomo Leone

Abdallo

Renata Campanella

Anna

Ion Stancu

The High Priest of Ba'al

Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza

Teatro Comunale Alighieri di Ravenna

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara

Others

Coro Lirico Marchigiano "Vincenzo Bellini"

Orchestra

Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini

Italian

Ravenna

Italy

Teatro Dante Alighieri

Nabucco Verdi

Public

Private

Approved

Trilogia Ravenna Festival / Regia Cristina Muti/ Direzione M° Alessandro Benigni/ Video realizzato da Giacomo Banchelli

Nabucco / Aria di Abigaille

*  Ravenna, November 16, 2018  - Ravenna Festival announces that Maestro Pietro Borgonovo has decided to abandon the production of Nabucco for health reasons. The Festival Direction thanks Maestro Borgonovo for the work done during the weeks of hall and orchestra rehearsals, wishing him a speedy recovery. To replace Maestro Borgonovo in the next rehearsal sessions and performances was called Alessandro Benigni, conductor who followed the entire trilogy as a master collaborator and trainer of the singers. The Festival thanks Maestro Benigni for his ready availability, which ensures continuity to the production on stage on 23, 27 and 30 November at the Alighieri Theater.

A new lyric marathon: three titles that follow one another night after night on the same stage, fast rhythms and a laboratory that plays on the edge of invention and creativity, intertwining young talents and modern technologies. It is the autumn trilogy, which once again chooses to investigate the genius of Giuseppe Verdi, transforming the Alighieri stage into a real "opera factory", capable of giving body and voice to three different moments of his artistic path. An unpublished production is flanked by the reinterpretation of works already presented (from the "repertoire" that the autumn formula can already boast): starting from the biblical and choral inspiration that dominates  Nabucco, in the light that springs from the dark, enhancing the soul of Rigoletto, up to the dramatic chromatic contrast that unites / separates Otello and Desdemona.

It could only be  Nabucco  who opened the Trilogy destined to retrace Verdi's extraordinary creative parable. The work with which, in 1841, he manages to rise from the adversities of destiny and take back his life, as a man and as a musician, and in which the biblical and prophetic dimension flows into a choral fresco capable of absorbing and subsuming into itself individual individuals, towards an ideal union of peoples. It is in that score that the foundations of  Rigoletto 's irresistible success are laid , the first piece in 1851 of the “popular” triptych, and above all the author's favorite work, for the vivid definition of the protagonist in a picture of perfect dramatic unity. And, after all, also of the extreme renewal that in  Otello (1887) will spring from the Shakespearean verb, the inevitable landing of Verdi's “scenic word”.

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