Name: Lucrezia Borgia
Start: 2009-02-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Nationaltheater

Organization

Singer

Bass-baritone

Franco Vassallo

Duke of Ferrara

Soprano

Edita Gruberová

Donna  Borgia

Tenor

Pavol Breslik

Gennaro

Contralto

Alice Coote

Maffio Orsini

Bass

Christian Rieger

Don Apostolo Gazella

Steven Humes

Gubetta

Emanuele D'Aguanno

Rustighello

Christian Van Horn

Astolfo

Conductor

Bertrand de Billy

Stage director

Christof Loy

Set designer

Henrik Ahr

Bayerische Staatsoper

Italian

Lucrezia Borgia

Munich

Germany

Nationaltheater

The phenomenal Edita Gruberová, the world's undisputed queen of bel canto, proves once again why she deserves this title: After her enthusiastically applauded concert debut as Lucrezia Borgia in Barcelona, ​​her captivating role debut in a staged version of this work took place at the Bavarian State Opera and became Just as frenetically celebrated. Her performance, noted the "Opera Magazine", "justified the almost admiration of the Munich audience for her". With "Lucrezia Borgia" Gruberova builds on her recent triumphs in "Roberto Devereux" and "Norma" with another bel canto masterpiece. The soprano sings with "exquisite purity" (Opera Magazine) and also beguiles with her physical presence. Director Christof Loy and two-time Emmy Award winner Brian Large focus on the story's dramatic potential and Gruberová's talent for expressing it with every tone and gesture. The singer is an excellent couple with young tenor Pavol Breslik as her son Gennaro. Breslik, a native Slovak like Gruberova, gives such a radiant interpretation of the tormented youth that he has already been called "the most promising new voice among lyric tenors" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung).

Lucrezia Borgia Donizetti

German

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading