FULL LE MASCHERE (Mascagni) Cluj-Napoca 1986 Elena Baggiore, Anna Baldasserini, Tamas Doroczi, Viorel Baciu
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Le maschere
- Composer: Mascagni Pietro
- Libretto: Luigi Illica Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Opera Romena di Cluj Napoca, Romania
- Recorded: 1986
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Elena Baggiore, Anna Baldasserini, Tamas Doroczi, Viorel Baciu, Vincenzo Manno, Dan Serbac, Ettore Cresci
- Conductor: Petre Sbarcea
- Orchestra: Orchestra dell'Opera Romena di Cluj Napoca
- Chorus: Coro dell'Opera Romena di Cluj Napoca
- Chorus Master: Emil Maxim
- Stage Director: Giampaolo Zennaro
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: CarloGiusto
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 2 Audio:2
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Le maschere (The Masks) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica.
The work was Mascagni’s homage to Rossini and to the Italian opera buffa and commedia dell’arte traditions. It was premiered simultaneously in six Italian opera houses on 17 January 1901: La Scala in Milan (with Caruso as Florindo, Carelli as Rosaura, and Toscanini conducting); the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; the Teatro Regio in Turin; the Teatro Costanzi in Rome; La Fenice in Venice; and the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. Two days later, it premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.
Apart from the performance in Rome, conducted by Mascagni himself (and later in the first run by his pupil Roberto Moranzoni), Le maschere received a dismal reception, with the performance in Genoa suspended halfway through because of the audience’s vociferous expressions of displeasure. The opera was sporadically performed in Italy over the next four years and then sank into obscurity. When Mascagni revised and represented the opera in 1931 it met with little lasting success. However, sporadic revivals in the late 20th century have been greeted with some critical interest.
Synopsis
In the prologue, a travelling commedia dell’arte troupe and their impresario present the characters they are about to play. The remaining three acts are the play itself wherein after many vicissitudes, Florindo and Rosaura, aided by Columbina and Arlecchino, manage to prevent the marriage which Rosaura’s father, Pantalone, had planned for her.
Quoted from Wikipedia