Organization

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Opera Festival of Chicago

Conductor

Emanuele Andrizzi

Stage director

Harry Silverstein

Chorus master

Reid Taylor

Singer

Soprano

Viktoria Vizin

The Mother

Baritone

Franco Pomponi

The Prisoner

Tenor

David Cangelosi

The Gaoler

Jonathan Wilson

2. Priest

Alex Iacobucci

Grand Inquisitor

Laura McCauley

Monica

Silent

Toby

Contralto

Madame Flora (Baba)

Gisella Milla

Mrs Gobineau

Mr Gobineau

Mezzo-soprano

Lauryn Nelson

Mrs Nolan

Italian

Il Prigioniero” & “The Medium”.

Chicago

United States

Athenaeum Theatre

Il Prigioniero” & “The Medium”.: Il prigioniero Dallapiccola (+1 More)

Public

The Medium

Gregorio Chávez Coutiño

English

Approved

Il Prigioniero” & “The Medium”.: ILaura McCauley

Il Prigioniero by Luigi Dallapiccola

Music by:Luigi Dallapiccola
Libretto by:Luigi Dallapiccola
Emanuele AndrizziConductor
Harry SilversteinDirector
Reid TaylorChorus Master
Performed in Italianwith English Supertitles
Running Time:60 minutes (there will be a 15 minutes intermission between shows)
Tickets:$25 – $125
This show is a double-bill performance including both Dallapiccola’s “Il Prigioniero” & Menotti’s “The Medium”.

Tickets for this performance will be for sale soon.

Set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition, Dallapiccola’s opera unfolds a dark and intense narrative. The protagonist, a prisoner, becomes entangled in a web of religious and political intrigue.

Starring:

Viktoria Vizin | La Madre
Franco Pomponi | Il Prigioniero
David Cangelosi | Il Carceriere
Jonathan Wilson | 2nd Priest
Alex Iacobucci | Torturer

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The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti

Music by:Gian Carlo Menotti
Libretto by:Gian Carlo Menotti
Emanuele AndrizziConductor
Harry SilversteinDirector
Performed in Italianwith English Supertitles
Running Time:60 minutes (there will be a 15 minutes intermission between shows)
Tickets:$25 – $125
This show is a double-bill performance including both Menotti’s “The Medium” & Dallapiccola’s “Il Prigioniero”.

Tickets for this performance will be for sale soon.

Set in a mid-20th-century urban apartment, Menotti’s opera revolves around Madame Flora, a fraudulent medium, and her daughter Monica.

Starring:

Laura McCauley | Monica
Alex Iacobucci | Toby
Viktoria Vizin | Madame Flora (Baba)
Gisella Milla | Mrs. Gobineau
Jonathan Wilson | Mr. Gobineau
Lauryn Nelson | Mrs. Nolan

Il Prigioniero” & “The Medium”. by Dallapiccola, Menotti, From (2024/2024), Directed by Harry Silverstein,, Conductor Emanuele Andrizzi, Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago, United States

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