Name: Lucio Silla
Start: 2021-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Prairie Lakes Theater

Organization

Dirigat

Adriano Spampanato

Regie

Cathy Dunn

Assistant Director

Edson Melendez​​

Assistant Conductor

Taichi Fukumura​

Sänger

Tenor

Jacob Rivera

Lucio Silla

Sopran

Jade Ferrell

Giunia

Emily Tiberi

Nicolle Hendzel

Alexandra Kzeski

Cecilio

Bruno Rivera

Rachel Hahn

Nara Song

Lucio Cinna

Rebecca Regan

Jennifer O’Brien

Yui Futaeda

Celia

Holly Thiemann

Michaela Larsen

Charles M. Anderson

Aufidio

William Fishwick

Chicago Summer Opera

Des Plaines

Vereinigte Staaten

Prairie Lakes Theater

Public

Genehmigt

Accordionist

Instrument

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Andere

Bühnenbild

Chor

Chordirektion

Choreographie

Chorus Director

Dramaturgie

Extra

GesangslehrerIn

Haar

Illustrator

Komposition

Korrepetition

Kostümbild

Lehrer

Leitender Produzent

Libretto

Lichtgestaltung

Maske

Orchester

Orchestra Operations

Photographer

Poet

Rundfunk

Schauspiel

Stage Manager

Tongestaltung

Tänzer

Videogestaltung

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Übersetzung

Bariton

Countertenor

Mezzosopran

Bass-Bariton

Bass

Alto

Continuo

Kinderstimme

Sprechrolle

Stumme Rolle

In 79 BC, Lucio Silla has achieved autocratic power in Rome through violence and intimidation and is backed by a supportive Senate. His fiercest enemy, the noble Senator Cecilio, has been exiled, but is believed dead thanks to Silla’s ability to shape public narrative; Silla covets Giunia, Cecilio’s betrothed, for himself. Silla attempts to follow his sister Celia’s advice to win Giunia over with kindness, but the threat of noncompliance lingers when he tries to woo her. Giunia, whose father was also killed in Silla’s ascent to power, rejects the autocrat, choosing allegiance to her father and Cecilio. This rejection provides Silla with another excuse to choose tyranny: he declares that she will die.

Meanwhile, Cecilio has secretly returned to Rome and reunites with Giunia by her father’s tomb. When Cecilio’s presence is discovered, Silla again chooses tyranny, declaring that Cecilio will be put to death. Giunia, Celia, and Cinna – Cecilio’s friend and the object of Celia’s affections – seek a solution to Silla’s tyrannical behavior and Cecilio’s fate, effectively debating the value and efficacy of vengeance, persuasion, and honor under oppression. Will Silla continue his bloody and tyrannical reign or will justice win the day? The lieto fine, like many in 18th century opera, can be hard for today’s audiences to accept and is sometimes subverted by staging and production choices. Despite these contemporary interpretive tendencies, this production preserves the opera’s original intent, celebrating honor and bravery in the face of autocracy as well as the power of love to persevere and overcome tyranny and cruelty.

Composed when Mozart was just 16 with librettist Giovanni de Gamerra, Lucio Silla is the third Mozart opera commissioned by Milan. The three-act opera seria largely follows the genre’s conventions but lightly pushes musical bounds, blurring standard delineations with several accompanied recitatives and less common aria structures.

English

Lucio Silla by Mozart, Do. 15 Juli 2021, Ab (2021/2021), Unter der Regie von Cathy Dunn,, Dirigat Adriano Spampanato, Prairie Lakes Theater, Des Plaines, Vereinigte Staaten

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