Organization

Pianist

Kelvin Lim

Regisseur

Nick Fowler

Zanger

Soprano

Mariya Krywaniuk

Rita

Tenor

Bonaventura Bottone

Beppe

Baritone

Pauls Putnins

Gasparo

Opera Cameratina

Sherborne

Verenigd Koninkrijk

Rita Donizetti

Public

Approved

Donizetti composed Rita (alternatively titled Two Men And A Woman, but also
later known as The Beaten Husband) to a French libretto by Gustave Vaëz, in 1841,
only a few years before illness curtailed his career. In fact he never saw it on stage
– it was only first performed in 1860, 12 years after his death.
The music is pure Donizetti – charming, witty, inhabiting the same world as L’elisir
d’amore (1832) and Don Pasquale (1843). He and his librettist make use of several
tropes of the commedia dell’arte – the hen-pecked husband, the contest which
both contestants attempt to lose, the injured arm which miraculously heals when
the bearer is challenged to a fight – while telling a modern morality tale: be careful
what you wish for – it may come true!

English

Voorstellingscredits (Cast & Productieteam )

Cast

Productieteam