FULL I pazzi per progetto (Donizetti) Kirchstetten 2024 Szabolcs Hámori, Dora Garcidueñas, Emilio Marcucci, Artem Paches
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: I pazzi per progetto (Madmen by Design)
- Composer: Donizetti Gaetano
- Libretto: Domenico Gilardoni Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Schloss Kirstetten, Austria
- Recorded: July 27, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Szabolcs Hámori, Dora Garcidueñas, Emilio Marcucci, Artem Paches, Sevana Salmasi, Matthias Almer, Antoine Amariutei, Elias Hladisch
- Conductor: Hooman Khalatbari
- Orchestra: Orchester Virtuosi Brunenses
- Stage Director: Richard Panzenböck
- Stage Designer: Petra Fibich-Patzelt
- Costume Designer: Almasa Jerlagic
- Lighting Designer: Martin Kurz
Information about the Recording
- Published by: KlassikFestival Schloss Kirchstetten
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
I pazzi per progetto (Madmen by Design) is a farsa in one act by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni. The first performance took place at the Teatro di San Carlo on 6 February 1830 and was followed by its second presentation on 7 February at the Teatro del Fondo.
At the 1830 performance in Naples, some great singers of the time such as Boccabadati and Luigi Lablache performed it in a charity event, but despite the exceptional cast, the audience was really very meager. The work, carried by two women surrounded by five heavy voices, was divided into seven numbers linked by dry (“secco”) or accompanied recitatives. It revealed the purest farcical style of the composer, containing the characters and forms typical of that style.
It was performed a few more times in Naples and Palermo up until 1845, and then forgotten until 1977.
Synopsis
Place: A hospital for the insane in Paris
Time: Early 19th Century
The hospital’s director, Darlemont, has a niece, Norina, married to Blinval, a colonel of dragoons. The remoteness of the man from his beloved wife due to military reasons and mutual jealousy are the causes of series of actions when the two meet again. Since the meeting takes place in the hospital which is managed by Norina’s uncle, the two alternately pose themselves as crazy to find out the true feelings of each other, causing frantic carousel of deceptions and misunderstandings.
Added to all this is a very babbler and an all-too-sincere servant, (Frank), a deserter trumpeter who pretends to be a doctor (Eustace), a beautiful young girl (Christina), former lover of the colonel, who tries to escape from her old guardian (Venanzio). He in turn tries to make her go mad so that he can take her dowry.
These very well-matched ingredients result in a farce with all its rules. At the well-designed end, peace and moral obligation are restored.
Quoted from Wikipedia