Organization

Cantante

Baritono

James Westman

Eustachio

Mezzosoprano

Magda Gartner

Aurelio

Soprano

Lucia Cesaroni

Eleonora

Tenore

Neal Ferreira

Giovanni d'Aire

Alan Schneider

Giacomo de Wisants

James Demler

Pietro de Wisants

Basso

Christopher Carbin

Armando

John Allen Nelson

Edoardo

Sumner Thompson

Edmondo

Deborah Selig

Isabella

Direzione d'orchestra

Gil Rose

Regia

Joshua Major

Scenografia

Dan Daly

Costumi

Brooke Stanton

Luci

Dennis Parichy

Luke Scott

Incognito

Odyssey Opera

Orchestra

italiano

L'assedio di Calais

Boston

Stati Uniti

The Huntington Theater

L'assedio di Calais Donizetti

Public

inglese

Approvato

Gaetano Donizetti’s opera L’assedio di Calais (The Siege of Calais) focuses on tales of courage and self-sacrifice arising from the bleak conditions of Edward the III's year-long siege of Calais during the Hundred Years’ War. This rarely-heard Italian bel canto work was well received at the time of its premier, but an ill-timed cholera outbreak saw it close prematurely. It would be 150 years before the work was rediscovered. Recent revivals have shown it to be an opera of great beauty and poetry with truly remarkable music. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto, which has been described as "...a remarkable libretto, the closest Cammarano ever got to real poetry, particularly in his description of the embattled city and the heartfelt pride of its citizens."

“This tale of courage, self-sacrifice, and wartime could be set in the present day,” explains Gil Rose, Odyssey Opera’s Artistic and General Director. “Besieged cities are found throughout history, from Calais during the Hundred Years’ War, through Stalingrad during World War Two, to Aleppo in Syria” 

. . . 
James Westman // Eustachio de Saint-Pierre, Mayor of Calais
Magda Gartner // Aurelio, his son
Lucia Cesaroni // Eleanora 
Neal Ferreira // Giovanni d’Aire, burgher
Alan Schneider // Giacomo de Wisants, burgher
James Demler // Pietro de Wisants, burgher
Christopher Carbin // Armando, burgher 
John Allen Nelson, Baritone // Eduardo III, King of England
Sumner Thompson // Edmundo, English General 
. . .
Gil Rose // Conductor
Joshua Major // Stage Director
. . .
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano based on Luigi Marchionni’s play L’assedio di Calais
Sung in Italian with English titles

Video by Kathy Wittman, Ball Square Films

Donizetti’s L’assedio di Calais (The Siege of Calais) focuses on the bleak wartime and tales of courage and self-sacrifice in Edward the III’s year-long Siege of Calais during the Hundred Years’ War. This rarely-heard Italian bel canto work has undeservedly been absent from the operatic stage but recent revivals have shown it to be a work of great beauty and poetry. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto, which has been described as “…a remarkable libretto, the closest Cammarano ever got to real poetry, particularly in his description of the embattled city and the heartfelt pride of its citizens.” eng

English

L'assedio di Calais by Donizetti, Da (2017/2017), Diretto da Joshua Major,, Direttore d'orchestra Gil Rose, The Huntington Theater, Boston, Stati Uniti

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