Organization

Wexford Festival Opera

Singer

Tenor

Rubens Pelizzari

Carlo ("Il bravo"), a hired assassin

Alessandro Luciano

Pisani, an exiled Venetian patrician

Baritone

Gustavo Castillo

Foscari, a Venetian patrician

Szymon Mechliński

Luigi, Foscari's servant

Soprano

Clarissa Costanzo

Teodora, a mysterious Venetian woman

Ekaterina Bakanova

Violetta, an orphan from Genoa

José de Eça

Cappello, a Venetian patrician

Bass

Toni Nežić

Marco, Teodora's gondolier

Richard Shaffrey

Messenger

Ioana Pipelea

Michelina, Teodora's maid

Conductor

Jonathan Brandani

Stage director

Renaud Doucet

Set designer

André Barbe

Lighting designer

Paul Hackenmueller

Il Bravo

Wexford

Ireland

National Opera House

Jerome Hynes Theatre

RTÉ Culture presents Il bravo (The Assassin), an opera in three acts by Saverio Mercadante, presented live from the Wexford Opera House. 

Set in 16th-century Venice, the Bravo of the title is a tormented character who long ago killed his wife in a fit of jealousy; unjustly accused of plotting against the state, he has been forced by the Council of Ten to become their secret hired assassin, while his father is held hostage to compel his obedience.

Public

Private

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading