Name: Xerxes
Start: 2015-05-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-06-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Litta

Organization

Soprano

Vilija Mikštaitė

Serse

Jud Perry

Arsamene

Contralto

Alessandra Visentin

Amastre

Viktorija Bakan

Romilda

Arianna Stornello

Atalanta

Basso

Stefano Cianci

Ariodate

Claudio Ottino

Elviro

Direzione d'orchestra

Cristian Frattima

Regia

Valentino Klose

Scenografia

Alessandra Boffelli Serbolisca

Costumi

Direzione del coro

Marco Berrini

Coin du Roi

Xerxes -  (Serse)

Venezia

Italia

Teatro Goldoni

Milano

Teatro Litta

Approvato

Almost 20 years after the last italian production, this masterpiece of the baroque repertoire, this milestone of the XVIII century singing technique revives in Italy. And for the first time in the country where opera was born, Xerxes will be staged fully, without cuts and with historical instruments.

The quality of the score is well represented by its very first vocal page: the famous “Ombra mai fu”. As opera semi-seria, Serse is also memorable for the pre-metastasian mix of buffo and serio figures. The humor of the dramma per musica is in fact very refined and iconoclast and, as Mozart will understand in the next decades, does not distinguish between solemn protagonists and comic parts, ironizing both of them. Moreover it is possible to trace a unitary composing principle through the whole score, something rare in the XVIII century production, almost stuck in closed numbers.

Coin du Roi Orchestra
Ars Cantica Choir

Conductor: Christian Frattima
Choirmaster: Marco Berrini
Stage director: Valentino Klose
Sets and costumes: Alessandra Boffelli Serbolisca

CAST

Serse: Vilija Mikštaitė
Arsamene: Jud Perry
Amastre: Alessandra Visentin
Romilda: Viktorija Bakan
Atalanta: Arianna Stornello
Ariodate: Stefano Cianci
Elviro: Claudio Ottino

G. F. Händel's "Serse" (Xerxes), Teatro Litta Milan

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