FULL Don Checco (De Giosa) Turin 2022 Domenico Colaianni, Carmine Monaco, Michela Antenucci

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Don Checco  
• Composer: De Giosa Nicola  
• Libretto: Almerindo Spadetta    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Regio Torino, Italy  
• Recorded: July 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Domenico Colaianni, Carmine Monaco, Michela Antenucci, David Ferri Durà, Vladimir Sazdovski, Francesco Auriemma, Nicola Pascale
• Conductor: Francesco Ommassini  
• Orchestra: Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino  
• Chorus: Coro Teatro Regio Torino  
• Chorus Master: Andrea Secchi  
• Stage Director: Mariano Bauduin  
• Stage Designer: Claudia Boasso  
• Costume Designer: Laura Viglione  
• Lighting Designer: Lorenzo Maletto  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Mariano Bauduin  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Quote Wikipedia: Don Checco is an opera in two acts composed by Nicola De Giosa to a libretto by Almerindo Spadetta. It premiered on 11 July 1850 at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples. Don Checco was De Giosa’s masterpiece and one of the last great successes in the history of Neapolitan opera buffa.

Set in a village inn near Naples, the opera’s story has the usual elements of the Neapolitan opera buffa genre—young lovers in difficulty, deceptions, mistaken identities, and a happy ending. Its protagonist and a guest at the inn is Don Checco Cerifoglio, an elderly gentleman deep in debt and fleeing the bailiff of the mysterious Count de Ridolfi. The opera had an initial run of 98 performances at the Teatro Nuovo and was regularly produced in numerous opera houses in Italy and abroad over the next four decades. After years of neglect, it was revived in 2014 in a co-production by the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca.