Name: Rita
Start: 2010-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2010-12-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Madlenianum

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Sanja Kerkez

Rita

Conductor

Vladimir Kranjčević

Stage director

Stefan Sablić

Set designer

Aleksandar Denić

Costume designer

Zora Mojsilović-Popović

Lighting designer

Srđan Jovanović

Sofija Pižurica

Tenor

Goran Strgar

Beppe

Saša Štulić

Baritone

Nenad Nenić

Gasparo

Vladimir Andrić

Madlenianum Opera and Theatre

Rita -  (Two Men and A Woman)

Belgrade

Serbia

Madlenianum

Rita Donizetti

Public

Two Men and A Woman

Approved

Opera Rita was completed in1841 but was performed posthumously in Paris, in 1860. In our times it meets with a renaisance, and is warmly received especially after the first night at the Milan Scala in 1965, and it also had a very successful production in Lion in 2009. Due to its modest dimensions, chamber qualities, a small number of performers and eternally current topic, it is much sought after at a large number of the world stages. Rita is an energetic, but also a despotic woman who abuses her timid and withdrawn husband Beppe. Their marriage might even have succeded if Rita’s first husband Gasparo whom everybody believed to have been dead, had not appeared. In reality, Gaspar had run away to Canada where he had been in hiding from her. He returned with the greatest wish to divorce her and annul his marital contract with Rita, so that he could remarry. In the unexpected appearance of Gaspar, Beppe sees a solution to his own problems, feeling that it is a good oportunity to get rid of Rita who goes on tormenting him. The two husbands, the ex and the current, make a deal in order to outsmart the evil woman and take a revenge on her. Witty solutions, cool humor, numerous duets, trios, Rita’s arias, comical turns, exceptionally pleasing melody, not very pretentious orchestra are all together the witnesses of the best elements of Donizetti’s language and style.

English

Two Men and A Woman by Donizetti, Fri 01 Oct 2010, From (2010/2010), Directed by Stefan Sablić,, Conductor Vladimir Kranjčević, Madlenianum, Belgrade, Serbia

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