Il Tabarro & Bluebeard's Castle: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
About the Event
Michele Mariotti conducts the double performance of Il Tabarro by Puccini and Bluebeard's Castle by Bartok in the Teatro Costanzi.
Cast / Production
CONDUCTOR Michele Mariotti
DIRECTOR Johannes Erath
CHORUS MASTER Ciro Visco
SET DESIGNER Katrin Connan
COSTUME DESIGNER Noëlle Blancpain
LIGHT DESIGNER Alessandro Carletti
VIDEO Bibi Abel
Il tabarro
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Opera in one act
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami after La Houppelande by Didier Gold
World première Metropolitan, New York 14 December 1918
First performed at Teatro Costanzi 11 January 11, 1919 (Italian première)
CAST
MICHELE, A BARGE‐OWNER Luca Salsi / Sebastian Catana (18)
LUIGI, STEVEDORE Gregory Kunde
GIORGETTA, MICHELE’S WIFE Maria Agresta
‘TINCA’ Didier Pieri
‘TALPA’ Roberto Lorenzi
‘FRUGOLA’, TALPA’S WIFE Enkelejda Shkoza
Il castello del Principe Barbablù (A KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ HERCEG VÁRA)
Music by Béla Bartók
Opera in one act
Libretto by Béla Balázs
World première Teatro dell’Opera di Budapest May 24, 1918
First performed at Teatro Costanzi 10 January 10, 1962 (Il castello del Duca Barbablù)
CAST
JUDIT Ekaterina Semenchuk
BLUEBEARD Mikhail Petrenko
TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
A Teatro dell’Opera di Roma new production
With Italian and English surtitles
