FULL Amadigi di Gaula Milan 2016 Lazareva Giacchèro Carbonera Sartorato
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Amadigi di Gaula
- Composer: Handel George Frideric aka Händel Georg Friedrich
- Libretto: Giacomo Rossi
- Venue & Opera Company: Piccolo Teatro Studio 29, Milano, Italy
- Recorded: March 29, 2016
- Type: Concert Semi-staged
- Singers: Oksana Lazareva, Rossella Giacchèro, Anna Carbonera, Francesca Sartorato, Manuel Epis
- Conductor: Mirko Guadagnini
- Orchestra: INTENDE VOCI Musici
- Chorus: INTENDE VOCI Chorus
- Stage Director: Oksana Lazareva
- Costume Designer:
- Lighting Designer: Daniel Tummolillo
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Liederiadi & more
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
“The original story of Amadigi is characteristic of the 18th century opera: a compact structure with fairy tale references, magic and deus ex-machina – explains the director Oksana Lazareva -” Three hundred years have passed since the first performance: it was 1715, the theater it was the King’s Theater in London. However, we know that, after a few performances, the work was unjustly put aside and forgotten. A condition that, over time, brought an advantage over other more famous works: free from the usual baggage of traditions and performance practices, Amadigi offered the possibility of being adapted to other space-time settings “.
The work takes place on an occupied, imaginary and allegorical island, which is deliberately given neither a name nor a nationality to make it easier and more direct the allusion to the countless scenarios of repression and violation of human rights that have occurred in past and continue to recur today. At the center, the thirst for power and money, which pushes to dominate, possess, exploit, destroy cultures and traditions. Dominant, the resolving force of Love, with the captivating idyll between the revolutionary commoner and the military-colonizer.