FULL LE MASCHERE (Mascagni) Wexford 2024 Lavina Bini, Benoit Joseph Meier, Ioana Constantin Pipelea
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Le maschere
- Composer: Mascagni Pietro
- Libretto: Luigi Illica Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: O'Reilly Theatre, National Opera House, Wexford, Ireland, Wexford Festival Opera
- Recorded: October 18, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Lavina Bini, Benoit Joseph Meier, Ioana Constantin Pipelea, Gillen Munguia, Matteo Mancini, Rory Musgrave, Andrew Morstein, Peter McCamley, Giorgio Caoduro, Mariano Orozco
- Conductor: Francesco Cilluffo
- Orchestra:
- Choreographer: Stellario Di Blasi
- Stage Director: Stefano Ricci
- Stage Designer: Stefano Ricci
- Costume Designer: Stefano Ricci
- Lighting Designer: Daniele Naldi
Information about the Recording
- Published by: RTÉ - IRELAND’S NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- 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.
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.