Organization

Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Singer

Soprano

Saioa Hernández

Leonora

Tenor

Roberto Aronica

Don Alvaro

Bass

Ferruccio Furlanetto

The Father Superior

Baritone

Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Don Carlo of Vargas

Mezzo-soprano

Annalisa Stroppa

Preziosilla

Alessandro Spina

The Marquis of Calatrava

Leonardo Cortellazzi

Maestro Trabuco

Conductor

Zubin Mehta

Stage director

Carlus Padrissa

Set designer

Roland Olbeter

Costume designer

Chu Uroz

Chorus master

Lorenzo Fratini

Nicola Alaimo

Fra Melitone

Roman Lyulkin

A surgeon

Lighting designer

Franc Aleu

Video designer

Francesco Samuele Venuti

Mayor

Valentina Corò

Curra

Fondazione del Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Others

Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Orchestra

Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Italian

La forza del destino -  (The Force of Destiny)

Florence

Italy

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

LXXXIII Festival of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - On November 10, 1862 at the Imperial Theater in St. Petersburg, The Force of Destiny made its debut. Writing for the Russian public, accustomed to eighteenth-century Italian opera but also to French grand opéra, meant for Verdi to experiment with new dramaturgical solutions. The result was a synthesis between aristocratic drama and popular comedy, a characteristic feature of a work that was never fully understood. That the master cared particularly for it is shown by the care he took in revising it years later for Milan, where it debuted on February 27, 1869. In the Scala version, in addition to the addition of the famous symphony, in which the motif of ineluctable fate appears, Verdi decided to change the ending. That honor drama that ended with the violent deaths of the three protagonists no longer convinced him. And so, with the collaboration of Antonio Ghislanzoni, who in the meantime took over from Piave, he opted for a Manzoni-style finale, which sees Don Alvaro repent and survive Leonora's death

La forza del destino Verdi

The Force of Destiny

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