Name: Aroldo
Start: 2003-10-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2003-10-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Municipale

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Fabio Armiliato

Aroldo

Soprano

Ángeles Blancas Gulín

Mina

Mezzo-soprano

Adriana Damato

Elena

Baritone

Franco Vassallo

Egberto

Conductor

Pier Giorgio Morandi

Stage director

Pier Luigi Pizzi

Set designer

Costume designer

Chorus master

Corrado Casati

Lighting designer

Sergio Rossi

Valter Borin

Godvino

Antonio Feltracco

Enrico

Bass

Enrico Giuseppe Iori

Briano

Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza

Piacenza

Italy

Teatro Municipale

Aroldo (Italian pronunciation: [aˈrɔldo]) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on and adapted from their earlier 1850 collaboration, Stiffelio.

Discover this rare Verdian jewel! Aroldo—one of the composer’s least performed works—premiered in 1857 in Rimini, Italy. The work was created in response to the censorship of Verdi’s 1849 Stiffelio, whose tale of a protestant pastor publicly pardonning an adulterer and his wife proved too scandalous for 19th-century Italian society. In creating Aroldo, Verdi’s librettist and collaborator Francesco Maria Piave transposed Stiffelio’s story and characters to the more distant setting of Great Britain at time of the Crusades, and the composer took advantage of this new version to add a fourth act to the opera, and to rewrite part of the first act as well as a few arias.

In this production, Aroldo and Mina are magnificently brought to life by Gustavo Porta and Adriana Damato, and Pier Luigi Pizzi’s staging gives an excellent new framing for this unjustly neglected work.

Aroldo Verdi

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading