Verdi: Aroldo - Teatro Municipale di Piacenza

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Verdi: Aroldo - Teatro Municipale di Piacenza (2003)

Music · 2h 06m

Discover this rare Verdian jewel! Aroldo—one of the composer’s least performed works—premiered in 1857 in Rimini, Italy. The work was created in response to the censorship of Verdi’s 1849 Stiffelio, whose tale of a protestant pastor publicly pardonning an adulterer and his wife proved too scandalous for 19th-century Italian society. In creating Aroldo, Verdi’s librettist and collaborator Francesco Maria Piave transposed Stiffelio’s story and characters to the more distant setting of Great Britain at time of the Crusades, and the composer took advantage of this new version to add a fourth act to the opera, and to rewrite part of the first act as well as a few arias.

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Cast

G
Gustavo Porta Aroldo
A
Adriana Damato Mina Franco Vassallo Egberto
E
Enrico Giuseppe Iori Briano
V
Valter Borin Godvino
A
Antonio Feltracco Enrico
M
Miriam Artiaco Elena

Crew

Writer
Giuseppe Verdi

Details

Release date
2003-10-13
Runtime
2h 06m
Genres
Music
Original language
IT
Spoken languages
Italian
Countries
Italy
Production
Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Fondazione Toscanini