Organization

Donizetti Opera

Conductor

Riccardo Frizza

Stage director

Valentina Carrasco

Set designer

Carles Berga

Peter van Praet

Costume designer

Silvia Aymonino

Choreographer

Massimiliano Volpini

Lighting designer

Chorus master

Salvo Sgrò

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Annalisa Stroppa

La favorite

Tenor

Javier Camarena

Fernand

Baritone

Florian Sempey

King Alphonse

Bass

Evgeny Stavinsky

Balthazar

Edoardo Milletti

Don Gaspard

Soprano

Caterina Di Tonno

Inés

Opéra National de Bordeaux

Fondazione Teatro Donizetti

Others

Coro dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala

Coro Donizetti Opera

Orchestra

Orchestra Donizetti Opera

La favorite -  (The Favorite)

Bergamo

Italy

Teatro Donizetti

La favorite Donizetti

Public

The Favorite

Approved

Gaetano Donizetti Theater

La Favorite, Teatro Donizetti Bergamo

A very famous work by Donizetti is undoubtedly  La Favorite , a Parisian triumph of 1840, a grand-opéra on the tried and tested Meyerbeer model but often disfigured by cuts, stylistic approximations and horrendous translations. At the Donizetti Theater, this masterpiece will be represented in the French original and in its entirety including the long, elaborate (and beautiful)  dance divertissement  , directed by the Festival's musical director, Riccardo Frizza, while the direction is entrusted to Valentina Carrasco who already has proved to be able to master the wandering and complex dramaturgy of the opera “à grand spectacle”. The Donizetti Opera Orchestra plays and the Donizetti Opera Choir and the Accademia della Scala join forces. Title "for singers", as it was once said, The favorite  ranks a company of big names on the international vocal scene such as the protagonist Annalisa Stroppa, the tenor Javier Camarena, the baritone Florian Sempey and the bass Evgeny Stavinsky, plus Caterina Di Tonno and Edoardo Milletti.

English

The Favorite by Donizetti, From (2022/2022), Directed by Valentina Carrasco,, Conductor Riccardo Frizza, Gaetano Donizetti Theater, Bergamo, Italy

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