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Wolf-Ferrari - La Vedova Scaltra | Naxos - Opera 866022526

Wolf-Ferrari - La Vedova Scaltra

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Label: Naxos - Opera

Cat No: 866022526

Barcode: 0730099022576

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st September 2008

Contents

Artists

Anne-Lise Sollied
Maurizio Muraro
Emanuele d’Aguanno
Mark Milhofer
Riccardo Zanellato
Elena Rossi
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice, Venice

Conductor

Karl Martin

Works

Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno

La Vedova Scaltra

Artists

Anne-Lise Sollied
Maurizio Muraro
Emanuele d’Aguanno
Mark Milhofer
Riccardo Zanellato
Elena Rossi
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice, Venice

Conductor

Karl Martin

About

Wolf-Ferrari’s comic opera La vedova scaltra (The Cunning Widow) is among the works he based on plays by Goldoni. It matches closely the conventions of 18th-century opera buffa in its witty, if sceptical, look at the mechanisms governing the interplay of human relations. Four hopeful suitors vie for the hand of Rosaura, the cunning widow of the title, who disguises herself to meet each wooer, eventually choosing the only one who can demonstrate his sincerity.

This production, filmed live at the Teatro La Fenice in February 2007 in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Goldoni in Venice in 1707, is the first to appear on DVD.

Director Massimo Gasparon’s strikingly colourful sets and costumes capture the Venetian flavour of this spirited work.

Libretto by Mario Ghisalberti after the play by Carlo Goldoni.

Filmed at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy, 13th & 15th February 2007.

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