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Verdi - La Forza del Destino | TDK DVWWOPFORZA

Verdi - La Forza del Destino

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Label: TDK

Cat No: DVWWOPFORZA

Barcode: 0824121002459

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 5th January 2009

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Contents

Artists

Violeta Urmana
Carlo Guelfi
Marcello Giordani
Julia Gertseva
Roberto Scandiuzzi
Bruno de Simone
Chorus and Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Conductor

Zubin Mehta

Works

Verdi, Giuseppe

La forza del destino

Artists

Violeta Urmana
Carlo Guelfi
Marcello Giordani
Julia Gertseva
Roberto Scandiuzzi
Bruno de Simone
Chorus and Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Conductor

Zubin Mehta

About

In his 2007 production for the Maggio Musicale in Florence, French opera director Nicolas Joël presented his reading of Giuseppe Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny). An adventure story and a tale of grim pursuit and unrelenting misfortune, of faith, renunciation and - finally - death and forgiveness, Verdi’s La forza del destino is, like an operatic road movie, also a portrait gallery of the different places and curious people the main players meet along their way.

As an opera dominated by big solo set pieces and long, complex duets, La forza del destino places special demands on everyone involved in bringing it to the stage: from the director, who is called upon to convey the dramatic development in those musical conversations and their place within a quite diffuse sequence of events, to the individual singers, each of whom is pushed to an extreme by Verdi’s vocal writing.

The singers all belong to the international opera scene and provide not only excellent vocal quality but also strong acting skills, which help tell the gripping story with its many disguises, various places and surprising discoveries.

Nicolas Joël’s production gives the work an unobtrusive update of about a hundred years from its composition, the period leading up to Italian Unification, suggesting that the Germans, upon whom Preziosilla calls for death, are not those involved in the War of the Austrian Succession, as imagined by Rivas and Verdi, but the country’s foreign occupiers, while Ezio Frigerio’s sets provide some dark Spanish visual contexts.

With this recording TDK continues its series of opera recordings from important Italian opera houses and festivals.

Cast:
- Donna Leonora: Violeta Urmana
- Don Carlo di Vargas: Carlo Guelfi
- Don Alvaro: Marcello Giordani
- Preziosilla: Julia Gertseva
- Padre Guardiano: Roberto Scandiuzzi
- Frá Melitone: Bruno de Simone

Directed by: Nicolas Joël
Set Design by: Ezio Frigerio
Costumes by: Franca Squarciapino

Live Recording from the Teatro Comunale, Firenze 2007.

Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1
Picture Format: 16:9
DVD Format: 2 x DVD 9, NTSC
Menu Languages: GB
Subtitle Languages: GB, F, D, SP, IT
Running Time: 189 mins
Region Code: 0

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