The stage of the Lirico di Cagliari is preparing to welcome La Traviata , the much loved and immortal masterpiece by Giuseppe Verdi . The appointment is for Friday 26 May at 20.30 (round A). The melodrama in three acts, with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, is based on the play La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils , with music by Giuseppe Verdi .
Absent from the city for 7 years , the opera returns on the occasion of the fourth appointment of the 2023 opera and ballet season. The last edition in fact dates back to 2016, excluding that of 2020 which was performed in the form of a concert and broadcast in streaming for the Covid-19 emergency. The staging of the Arena Sferisterio Association of Macerata and the Pergolesi-Spontini Foundation of Jesi – which dates back to 1992 and which Cagliari already admired in March 2000 – is the one curated, for direction and lights , by Henning Brockhaus .
In La Traviata the scenery is by Josef Svoboda (1920-2002), a brilliant and multifaceted Czech set designer, taken over in Cagliari by Benito Leonori . On stage, under the eyes of the audience in the hall, there will be the intriguing idea of a large mirror of 250 square meters which - slowly rising during the acts - first sends back the images reflected from the stage, "browsed" from time to time like in an old album of memories and in which the characters seem to move almost incorporeal. Finally, in the last act, it reflects the image in the evocative finale of the entire illuminated theater and the audience in the hall. The costumes are by Giancarlo Colis and the choreography by Valentina Escobar.
The conductor Beatrice Venezi returns to the podium of the Lirico, one of the young revelations of the international scene, who leads the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari. The choir master is Giovanni Andreoli. Prestigious and established artists who sing, alternating, in the roles on the poster: Gilda Fiume (26-28-30-1-4)/Nina Muho (27-30-31-1-3) (Violetta Valéry), Marina Ogii ( Flora Bervoix), Carlotta Vichi (Annina), Riccardo Della Sciucca (26-28-30-1-4)/Paolo Lardizzone (27-30-31-1-3) (Alfredo Germont), Leon Kim (26-28- 30-1-4)/Jorge Martínez (27-30-31-1-3) (Giorgio Germont), Mauro Secci (Gastone), Nicola Ebau (Baron Douphol), Andrea Tabili (Marquis d'Obigny), Mattia Denti ( Doctor Grenvil), Moreno Patteri (Giuseppe), Alessandro Frabotta (Domestic of Flora / Commissioner).
The opera, lasting approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes including two intermissions , is repeated: Saturday 27 May at 7 pm (set G); Sunday 28 May at 5pm (round D); Tuesday 30 May at 8.30 pm (round B); Wednesday 31 May at 7pm (set F); Thursday 1 June at 20.30 (shift C); Saturday 3 June at 5pm (round I); Sunday 4 June at 5pm (shift E). The two performances for schools - which provide for the performance in reduced form of the work for a total duration of approximately 60 minutes - are: Tuesday 30 May and Thursday 1 June at 11.
(Unioneonline/vf)